Old Cottages on Church Lane
The old cottages stood opposite Lea Bridge House on Church Lane. The Lane was originally a bridle path leading to St Mary's Church and used to be known as Field Lane.
Old Handsworth Church by Allen Edward Everitt
Everitt (1824-1882) was a prolific Birmingham artist and antiquarian whose watercolours and drawings are an important visual record of the historic architecture of the West Midlands. He lived for much ...
Old House, Park Road. May 30th 1968
Old Houses, Soho Hill by Paul Braddon
This watercolour of old houses on Soho Hill was painted by Paul Braddon in 1894.
Old oak tree at the corner of Church Lane, Perry Barr
Perry Church in the background
Watercolour by George Warren Blackham Nationality British
Active 1870- 1900
George Warren Blackham was a watercolourist who painted views of late nineteenth century ...
Old Perry from the Aldridge Road by William Nicholls
William Nicholls was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited 21 works at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1875 and 1889. His works included landscapes, rural and town scenes.
Old Slade Gardens, Handsworth
Old Slade Gardens, Handsworth. The lane led from Nineveh Road to Piers Road.
Oliver Pemberton, Birmingham City Coroner
Oliver Pemberton, F.R.C.S., J.P., was one of the Pemberton family who were brassfounders in Birmingham. His father was Thomas Pemberton of Warstone House. Born in 1825, he trained in medicine and eventually ...
One shilling and sixpence token (obverse), forgery by William Booth
This one shilling and sixpence token is a forgery manufactured by William Booth. He moved to Perry Barr in the early eighteenth century and produced forgeries such as these. Evetually the authorities ...
One shilling and sixpence token (reverse), forgery by William Booth
This one shilling and sixpence token is a forgery manufactured by William Booth. He moved to Perry Barr in the early eighteenth century and produced forgeries such as these. Evetually the authorities ...
Opening of the Lozells Road Trams
This cutting from the G.H. Osborne Collection of newscuttings is the announcement of the opening of the Lozells Road section of the tramline with trams to run every 15 minutes.
Original St Luke's Church, Bristol Street
St Luke's Church, Bristol Street, Lee Bank, in the course of demolition in 1899. It seems curious that the clock-face was not removed before demolition of the stonework started. Although a wooden structure ...
Oscott College, New Oscott
The college lodge, Oscott College, New Oscott
Osler Street School
The school opened in 1875, named after Abraham Follet-Osler, local worthy and glass manufacturer. The school has long since vanished in the urban renewal programme for Ladywood.
Osler Street School, Ladywood
Osler Street School in Ladywood was opened first as a boys' school on 15 November 1875. The girls' school followed in 1886, and the Junior and Infants' School in 1908. Much later, in 1962, the Follett ...
Overcrowding on Trains
A newscutting from the Birmingham Post reporting the case of two tradesmen Mr Heath and Mr Burton who sued the London and North-Western Railway Company for nine shillings. They had been waiting for a ...
Overcrowding Tramcars
This letter to the editor of the Daily Post is one of many complaining about the tram service. This writer tells of travelling from the Barton Arms and one of the tram company special officials allowing ...
Painful drowning case at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in ...