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 ...
Soho Road
This photograph of Soho road was taken from outside Handsworth Library facing towards Hockley, probably in the 1960's. The Elite Cinema can be clearly seen on the left and on the right the shop sign ...
Soho Road
This shopping centre on the corner of Soho Road and Nineveh Road was built in the late 1960's. A supermarket, a shoe shop, the Bank of Baroda, Kentucky Fried Chicken and a boutique still remain of the ...
Soho Road
Taken sometime during the 1960s to 1970s. Amongst the shops to be found in this photograph are:
Englands: Shoes
Withers: Tobacconist
Pearks: Supermarket
Burtons: Clothes
Soho Road junction with Milestone Lane
The church visible to the left is Asbury Memorial Methodist Church. The foundation stone was laid on 1st July 1884. It was named in memory of Francis Asbury who lived in a cottage at Hamstead. Asbury ...
Soho Road Then and Now
A comparison picture of the same stretch of the road in the 1960s and 2003.
Soho Tavern
Soho Tavern stands on the corner of Park Road and Factory Road.
Spring Hill Library
This fine building survives because of the efforts of the Victorian Society in the 1970s to prevent its demolition. It was in the way of the proposed Middle Ring Road, but a last minute change of route ...
Spring Street, Lee Bank
Spring Street, Lee Bank, off Bell Barn Road, is on the left in this photograph, taken on 27th October 1965, and the street to the right is Spring Vale, which headed eastwards to join Bristol Road. Children ...
Springfield Family Butcher - Cregoe Street
Advert from the St Luke's Church Magazine for Springfield's who were based on Cregoe Street.
St Alban's Church of England School
Keith Whitehouse progressed from Mary Street School to St Alban's C of E in Highgate (1964) to continue his education, and found a similar peaceful atmosphere conductive learning he had experienced in ...
St Asaph's Bazaar
Programme for 1893 Church Bazaar. This states that the parish consists of 11,000 people. Mentioned on the leaflet are the following people: A.J.Binnie (the Vicar), A.P. Roberts (Curate), T.H. Birks (Curate), ...
St Asaph's Church
St Asaph's Church stood at the junction of Great Colmore Street and Latimer Street. This would be just about where Lytham Croft meets Great Colmore Street today. It was built in 1869 to a design by Yeoville ...
St Barnabas School on Ryland Street
To the far left of the picture is St John's School which had been opened in 1961.Demolition was well underway when this picture was taken and Ryland Street was soon to be demolished too.
St Catherine Of Siena on the Horsefair
The original St Catherine Of Siena which used to stand on the Horsefair just up from where the former Dome II nightclub stands. there is a carpark roughly occupying the spot now. The church was demolished ...
St Catherines RC School on Windmill Street
The school was opened on January 3rd 1876 as St Catherine's Boys' School. The infants had already occupied part of the building the year before that. The school became mixed but space proved a problem ...
St Catherine's School Windmill Street
Mothers taking children to the original St Catherine's School which stood on Windmill Street. The school was handed over to Birmingham Corporation in 1964 and pupils transferred to a two form entry primary ...
St James' Church, Edgbaston
An interior scene in St James' Church, Elvetham Road, Edgbaston. In this view from the chancel up the nave of S.S. Teulon's 1852 building the hammerbeam roof is the most dominant feature. This is one ...