St John's School, Johnstone Street, Ladywood
St John's School, on the corner of Johnstone Street and St Mary Street, Ladywood, is seen here as it was on 17th November 1960. It opened as St John's National School in 1857 and last appears in directories ...
St John's School, Ladywood
St John's School, Ladywood, on the corner of St Mary Street and Johnstone Street. The school began as St John's National School in 1857. This photograph was taken in 1960, but buildings and streets have ...
St Luke's Church
An interior view of old St Luke's Church, Bristol Street. This photograph was taken at the very end of the 19th century, just before the building was demolished to make way for a new St Luke's Church. ...
St Luke's School Bell
The school bell from St Luke's School, still in situ despite the school's closure in 2002. The building is now a Sure Start centre, the bell remains as a testament to the past.
St Luke's School Plaque
The plaque commemorating the opening of St Luke's school. This plaque is still located in the building today. The school closed a few years ago and is now a Sure Start centre, though several reminders ...
St Mark's Street , Ladywood
No.55 St Mark's Street, Ladywood, on the corner of King Edward's Road. This street ran from Shakespeare Road to Summer Hill Road, but in 1969 when this photograph was taken the area was shortly to be ...
St Mary Street, Ladywood
St Mary Street, Ladywood. This street ran between Wood Street and Great Tindal Street, but disappeared in the course of the construction of Ladywood Middleway. The view presumably dates from the 1960s ...
St Mary's Church, Handsworth
St Mary's Church, Hamstead Road, Handsworth. The parish church dates originally from the 12th century, but it was enlarged and the tower added 200 years later. A major restoration was undertaken in 1876. ...
St Michael and All Angels Church
It stood on Vyse St at the corner of Pitsford St near Warstone Lane Cemetery in Hockley. The church managed its 100 year centenery before being demolished in 1953.
St Thomas' Church, Bath Row
The remains of St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank. The building was designed by Rickman and Hutchinson and built in 1826/29. Pevsner admires the west front, but describes as 'odd' the ball and cross ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank, seen in a photograph taken soon after the end of World War II. The church was built in a classical style in 1826/29 but only the west end survived enemy action during ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
The tumbled masonry and the classical columns put one in mind of scenes of 'the grandeur that was Rome' but this is St Thomas' Church in Bath Row, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken in 1946 before clearing ...
St Thomas on Bath Row
An impressive photograph of the remains on the church. Taken in 1950 after the area had been cleared, the Peace Garden is still many years away yet. This area was heavily bombed during WWII and the Church ...
St Thomas on Holloway Head
A year after the war ended St Thomas's still shows signs of the bomb that hit it with rubble and debris . Of note here are the graves still present which were subsequently removed along with the rubble....
St Thomas' School
The children in the reception class at St Thomas' Schools look quite well-behaved in this 1947 photograph, but one has to wonder how long it was before the vase of flowers on the table got knocked over. ...
St Thomas's Church and Gardens
St Thomas's Church after completion of the clearance of the area for bomb damage from the war. The tower alone survived the bomb that hit the church, although it had to be shored up as is just about visible ...