The Great Eastern
Albumen print of the view down the side of the Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and James Watt & Co. of Soho, Handsworth, manufactured the screw engines ...
The Great Eastern
Albumen print of the deck of the Great Eastern, by Robert Howlett.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and James Watt & Co. of Soho, Handsworth, manufactured the screw engines for it. They were ...
The Great Eastern
Handwritten description of the Great Eastern, noted as extracted from 'Steam Ships and their Story' by R.A. Fletcher.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and James Watt & Co. of Soho, Handsworth, ...
The Great Eastern
Albumen print by Robert Howlett, of the front view of the Great Eastern.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and James Watt & Co. of Soho, Handsworth, manufactured the screw engines for it. ...
The Great Eastern
Albumen print by Robert Howlett of the Great Eastern and workmen.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and James Watt & Co. of Soho, Handsworth, manufactured the screw engines for it. They were ...
The Great Eastern
Statistics regarding the Great Eastern, as provided by Albert Mould of Handsworth Library, Soho Road, for R.H. Kirton of 22 Broughton Road, Handsworth.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed this ship and ...
The Grove
The Grove stands on the corner of Grove Lane and Oxhill Road. It was opened in 1891 and this picture was taken nearly a hundred years later in 1985.
The Jewish Cemetery, Five Ways
Memorial stone inside the former Cemetery at Five Ways. The inscription reads: "This burial ground (Betholom)is preserved by the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation in memory of the Jews of Birmingham buried ...
The Jewish Community
This gallery showcases some of the images connected with the Jewish community which are featured on this website. The community today is far smaller than in the past but it does still remain active. This ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
Another page from "The Dart" about the conspiracy in Ledsam Street. The page reproduced here shows Whitehead's kitchen where he allegedly worked with the nitro-glycerine and the front of the shop at 128 ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy made national news. Alfred Whitehead was arrested at 128 Ledsam Street on April 5, 1883, on the charge of manufacturing nitroglycerine, or dynamite. Whitehead was ...
The Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
Pictures from The Dart (13th April 1883) of some of the police principals in the Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy. Top left is Sergeant Price who was the first investigating officer. Mr MacReady is an ...
The Mad Dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 21st 1897.
This is a letter replying to an article in the previous days newspaper, which gave an account of a shepherd from Perry village being ...
The Midland Dyeing, Cleaning and Carpet Shaking Co
Two premises listed here for this company. It is interesting to note that carpets could be "taken away" for cleaning. No manager is listed for the Soho Road branch so it may have been that Walter Price ...
The Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald" 16th May 1896.
A short article which criticises the Handsworth Police for the over zealous way they enforced the muzzling order that had been introduced ...
The new Law Courts
A Line drawing of the courts as they were intended to look. This illustration was published in the Illustrated London News to coincide with the visit of Queen Victoria to lay the foundation stone. She ...
The Old Ship Inn at Sandy Lane, Camp Hill
At the time this photograph was taken, the "Ship Inn", so called since the early 1800s and previously known as the "Anchor", was very old. The original half-timbered farm building, with stables, barn ...
The Oratory and Estate Office, Edgbaston
The buildings on the left in this Hagley Road scene form part of the Oratory and were originally the Oratory School. They were designed by Henry Clutton in a simple Italian Renaissance style in the early ...