Selwyn and Gillot Road
Junction of Selwyn ang Gillot Road during the Blitz. It would seem likely that this was a mistaken target or one of the cases where bombs were offloaded on the return flight home.
Servicemen's Club on Easy Row
Easy Row now only exists in name near to the Copthorne Hotel. This article from 1945 covers the opening of the Servicemen's Club - able to sleep 46 and bed and breakfast costing only 1s 3d.
Shakespeare Road and Alexandra Road, Ladywood
Shakespeare Road, Ladywood, looking towards Garbett Street at the bottom of Alexandra Road These Victorian terraces may be undistinguished, but the corner shop with a chimney stack directly above the ...
Sheet 214 Top
Section of 1889 Ordnance Survey map covering the Bath Row and St Thomas's Church area.
Sherborne Street wharf
A panoramic view of this location. Once a working wharf area and now home to many living the urban lifestyle. Picture by Ken Bonham.
Ships from the Adriatic at Venice - Joseph Southall
This painting by Joseph Southall is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. It was presented to them by Anne Elizabeth Southall in 1945. The Gallery note that: "Southall's brilliant draughtsmanship ...
Sid Field in "Harvey"
Sid Field was born at 103A Bell Barn Road in Ladywood. He grew up to be one of Britain's legendary comedians, though sadly his work can now only be seen via three films, one of which has only recently ...
Sidescreen and alter at St Luke's Church
The beautiful wooden screen is interesting because it was originally in St Asaph's Church on Great Colmore Screen. When St Asaph's was demolished in the nineteen sixties this screen was dismantled and ...
Silas Round - Ironmonger from Spring Hill
Trading from number 23 Spring Hill, Silas Round was a Retail Ironmonger and File Manufacturer. Interestingly his advert also lists that he was a Factor of Sheffield and Lancashire.
Silver Service
A consignment of 60 sacks of silver paper collected by children from Lee Bank Primary School. The paper was sold to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind. Teacher George Evans (pictured) said: "The ...
Site of St Thomas's School
Work commencing on the site of the new St Thomas's School. To the rear is the more progressed site of Lee Bank playing fields. The building on Holloway Head immediately to the rear of the playing fields ...
Site of St Thomas's School and Lee Bank playing field
A photograph taken during the development process. In the foreground is the site of the "new" St Thomas's School which replaced the Granville Street building. To the rear is the developing playing field ...
Skating Rink, Edgbaston Reservoir, Ladywood
The roller-skating rink, once one of the attractions of Edgbaston Reservoir. When the popularity of roller-skating waned the building became the Tower Ballroom which still survives on the south bank of ...
Sleeping area in a public air-raid shelter
This room would have had long bunk bed style beds in it and was capable of holding many people during an air-raid. Note the grill on the left hand wall for ventilation and the supproting iron beam in ...
Somewhere in Hunland
Sunday Mercury article about Birmingham men being held prisoner by the Germans during the First World War. The men pictured are all in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. The original image was sent by Private ...
South African War Veterans
A reunion at the Palais De Danse of veterans of the Boer War. The man standing to the centre of the foreground group is Colonel L.J.A. Gay. The last British survivor of the Boer War was George Frederick ...
Special Lantern Lecture at Kent Street Baths
This talk given by the Friends of The Soviet Union was on Soviet Planning. Wiliam Paul was also looking at Britain's distressed areas; on wonders if he included the area across the road which twenty to ...
Spring Hill and Icknield Street, Ladywood
In this aerial view of the junction of Spring Hill (to the left) and Icknield Street (to the right) Spring Hill Library stands grandly in the centre, hemmed in by somewhat less grand Victorian development. ...