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 ...
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.
Boat in sail on Hockley or Soho Pool by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing by John Phillp shows the Boulton family boat on Hockley Pool. The boat shows part of the Boulton family coat of arms on the stern. The boathouse is visible in the trees to the ...
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.
Boathouse doors by John Phillp
This scale elevation of boathouse doors by John Phillp does not match the doors of the boathouse on Soho Pool visible in other sketches by Phillp (also available on this site). It is possible they belong ...
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
Bomb scare near Boulton Road, Handsworth. October 1974
Bomb scare near Boulton Road, Handsworth. October 1974
Bond from John Wyrley of Handsworth
Bond from John Wyrley of Hannysworth [Handsworth] yoman to John Lane of Smythwyk [Smethwick] yoman, to secure performance of covenants concerning lands in the lordship of Hannysworth.
Creation: 1 May ...
Bookplate of John Rabone, Penderell House
Bookplate of John Rabone, Penderell House, Handsworth. Penderell House was on Hamstead Road close to the site of Welford School.
This is presumably one of the John Rabones of John Rabone and Sons, ...