Temple Minaret
View from the Soho Road.
Terrace in Villa Road
Numbers 34 to 42 Villa Road in 1981. This 'stepped' terrace was built in the late 1840s on land leased from Matthew Piers Watt Boulton, the grandson of the industrialist Matthew Boulton. This land did ...
Thasher's Nightclub
Santa Rosa opened in 1975. The club has changed names and management frequently throughout its lifetime. I knew it as Rialto, early 70’s - 1981. Then it became Thasher’s before it closed. ...
The "Y" Blocks
Looking towards Nash House on Grant Street. To the left are the low rise flats and Avon House and to the rear, just visible, is Lansdown House. The picture was taken from Bell Barn Road looking over the ...
The bells of St Mary's Church
The Billiard Hall on Soho Road
The Birmingham Show in Perry Park 1985
Radio WM's stand for the show. The "Nobody Does It Better" tagline is from the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me". Carly Simon sang the song from that film called "Nobody Does It Better". It isn't ...
The Boy With The Flag
Boy with his bike in Handsworth Park. With all the political connotations of the British Flag, especially in the late 1970's, it's interesting to see a child for whom it is merely something colourful ...
The Cannon Hill Public House
The Cannon Hill pub Edward Road on the corner of Court Road. Since it closed as a pub it has become home to the Balsall Heath Women's Academy run by South Birmingham College
The Cave Arts Centre
After the Imperial cinema closed it re-opened as "The Cave Arts Centre" in 1985. It was funded by the Arts Council and run by the Probation Service.
The Changing Face of Ladywood
The logbook of St George's Primary School records: "December 21st 1961 School closed for Christmas Party. During this last year all the houses in Beaufort Road and Plough and Harrow Road have been demolished. ...
The Circle, Kingstanding
Shops in The Circle, Kingstanding
The Clifton Public House
The pub stands on the junctions of Clifton Road and Ladypool Road. it is named after the road which is named after the area near to Bristol where the suspension bridge is located. The pub sign features ...
The Diskery and the Wellington
On the corner of Bromsgrove Street and Bristol Street is the Diskery, a mecca for record collectors since the late 1950s, although the shop was originally in Hurst Street and only moved to its Bromsgrove ...
The Eagle Public House
This pub on Mary Street has now been renamed Snackers although it had been known by that name for several years previously
The end of the parade
The parade arrives at the carnival showground
The Eternal Optimist
Man studying the form at Ladbrokes on Soho Road
The folly on Waterworks Road
Beautiful snowy view of the Folly.