The Oratory, Edgbaston
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Cardinal Newman, founder of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, came to Birmingham in 1849 and established the Oratory of St Philip Neri as a community ...
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan ...
The Perry Barr Drowning Case - The need of a mortuary
A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald relating to the inquest of Charles Maybury of Derby who was found drowned in the River Tame. The Coroner took the opportunity to highlight the need for a mortuary ...
The Perry Barr Trams
This letter to the editor of the Daily Post is part of a series of ongoing complaints about the tram service to Perry Barr. The writer complains that a full tram had been held up that morning waiting ...
The Perry Barr Trams - A Complaint
This newscutting tells of a lady wishing to alight from a tram but unable to attract the attention of the conductor. In an effort to help her the writer of the letter pulled the bell and was immediately ...
The Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Although an inn had been on the site of the Plough and Harrow in Hagley Road since the 18th century a new building was designed by John Fallows in a Tudor Revival style and was erected in 1832. This is ...
The Pound, Handsworth
The Pound, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, from a postcard. In the background can be seen some of the headstones in the churchyard of St Mary's.
The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Birmingham
This beautiful image is from Picture World. Edward, Prince of Wales and his wife Princess Alexandra are travelling along New Street towards the Council House where they were received by the Mayor Joseph ...
The Records of Birmingham Book Club, 23 April 1864. MS 2571/4/3/1
A volume recording a Shakespearean Tercentenary Festival organised by the Book Club at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston. This event was reported in the local newspapers. The volume contains a programme ...
The Reverends Webster, Whicker and Sheppard (St Thomas's Church)
In 1898, the Rev F S Webster accepted the Living of All Soul’s Langham Palace, London, and he was succeeded by the Rev. W G S Whicker, whose devoted labours on behalf of both Church and Schools are well ...
The Singular Death of Mr Marsh
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail January 29th 1887.
This cutting gives an account of the inquest into the death of George Marsh Jones of Wellington Road, Perry Barr.
Mr Jones worked as a ...
The Soho Manufactory
The Soho Manufactory was founded in 1761 by Matthew Boulton on Handsworth Heath in the parish of Handsworth near Birmingham. The site of a water mill was taken over, quickly converted and expanded over ...
The struggles at the trams - A disgrace to the city
These cuttings from the G.H. Osborne collection concern an ongoing problem with queueing for the trams. There seem to have been no organised queues so 'many persons were kept waiting in the rain for ...
The Town Hall
This image was published in a series of photographs taken to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria. It was in the Town Hall that the Queen received the official representatives from Birmingham. Note ...
Theft of Boots at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 5th January 1895. This gives details of a case heard at the Staffordshire Sessions in which Ernest Hems,aged 14, was accused of stealing a pair of boots ...
Thomas Chatwin Great Tindal Street
Chatwin's metal engineers on Great Tindal Street, Ladywood. This advert dates from 1888.
Thomas Kendrick
An abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available for download.Pakington House was located at number 64 in Trinity Road.
Mr Thomas Kendrick, who has long resided at ...
Thornhill House
Thornhill House from the fields, near to the railway line, showing also the rope-walk in the middle of the image.