Blondin walks across The Reservoir by Chris Upton
Derwentwater, Windermere, Loch Lomond. When the names of Britain’s great lakes are mentioned, Rotton park reservoir can be forgiven for having something of an inferiority complex.
The name itself, ...
Blue Fence thinking
Crest Nicholson are currently redeveloping the Lee Bank area. Once an area is scheduled for clearance, fences are put up and then someone has to go around and paint them blue! Not sure why the fences ...
Blythe Street
Blythe Street is no longer there. It used to run from the Ledsam/ Ryland Street junction down to Ladywood Road. Today a school and open space occupies the site.
Blythe Street, Ladywood
Blythe Street, Ladywood, in a photograph probably taken in the 1960s before redevelopment. The photographer was apparently standing outside the unusually-named Vesper Bell public house on the corner of ...
Boar's Head Inn, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
An early illustration of the Boar's Head Inn which is situated on Aldridge Road in Perry Barr. Originally built in 1758 and rebuilt twice since. Firstly during the 19th century and again in 1937
Boar's Head Inn, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The Boar's Head Inn in Aldridge Road, Perry Barr was originally built in 1758. This photograph shows a later 19th century building which stood until 1937 when it was demolished and replaced by the present ...
Boar's Head Inn, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The Boar's Head Inn in Aldridge Road, Perry Barr was originally built in 1758. This photograph shows a later 19th century building which stood until 1937 when it was demolished and replaced by the present ...
Boars Head Inn, Perry Barr
The Inn's name comes from the heraldic crest of the Gough family of Perry Hall. It was built in 1758 and was demolished in 1936. The soldiers who went to arrest the forger William Booth stopped off here ...
Boar's Head public house, Perry Barr
The Boar's Head public house, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, on 31st March 1931. The road leading off to the right is College Road.
Boar's Head public house, Perry Barr
Boar's Head public house, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr. The 1906 photograph shows the ornamental gables, designs made of coloured bricks in the facade and a huge painted advertisement on the end wall of ...
Boar's Head public house, Perry Barr
Boar's Head public house, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr. In this 1934 photograph the patterns in the brickwork are no longer as prominent as they were, although the left-hand side of the building seems to ...
Boathouse and pool, Handsworth Park
A Peaceful image of Handsworth Park Pool at approximately the turn of the 20th Century. This image is taken from a colourised black and white postcard.
Boating Pool, Handsworth Park
Atmospheric photograph from 1927.
Bomb damage in Birchfield Road
Photograph of Birchfield Road, corner of Mansfield Road, 2 November 1940 Crowds looking at bomb craters from the air raid the previous night. Handsworth was heavily bombed in the blitz due to the high ...
Bomb Damage in Bristol Street
To the right of the photograph is The Wellington Public House which still stands at the junction of Bromsgrove Street with Bristol Street. The windows have been visibly blown out in the blast which has ...
Bomb damage in Farm Street
Farm Street, Handsworth, 13 August 1942. German air-raids targetted the industrial premises of Handsworth during the blitz. The nearby metal merchants (left of picture) appears to have survived to some ...
Bomb damage on Balsall Heath Road
Damaged houses on Balsall Heath Road which was taken after an air raid in the blitz on Birmingham. Balsall Heath was heavily bombed during the Second World War.
Bomb scare near Boulton Road in October 1974