St Thomas's School
Miss Ford's classroom at St Thomas's School, looks quite jolly in this 1947 photograph with its vases of flowers and the frieze of rocking horses. The school was on Bath Row, facing what were by now the ...
St Thomas's School construction site
View of the site as construction was about to commence on the new school on Great Colmore Street - replacing the original school on Granville Street.
St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street
St Thomas's School will be 40 years old in 2007 at the Great Colmore Street location. Prior to that it had been located at the junction of Bath Row and Granville Street.
St Thomas's School wins garden competition
The school came up with a unique idea for a garden on the rooftop playground. Plants were grown inside used tyres instead of pots. This of course had the advantage of reducing risk of injury should a ...
St Thomas's School, Lee Bank
St Thomas's School in Lee Bank was on the corner of Bath Row and Granville Street. In this photograph, dating presumably from the late 1940s, new children are being introduced to the class. The classroom ...
Starkey's Bakery
Starkey's, as this advert from St Luke's Church Magazine says, had several shops in the Birmingham area. The ones covered geographically by this project, and listed in the advert, are at 74 Bristol Street ...
Station Inn, Monument Road, Ladywood
The Station Inn, 373 Monument Road, Ladywood, at the junction with Cope Street (on the left). At the bottom right of the picture is the start of the now-vanished Shakespeare Road. At this point Monument ...
Statue of St George in St Margaret's Church
The statue shows St George in medieval armour as he is probably best portrayed. St Margaret's Church was demolished in the nineteen fifties, what happened to the statue is unknown at time of writing (2004)....
Summer Hill Street and Nelson Street, Ladywood
The junction of Summer Hill Street, Ladywood, and Nelson Street (on the right). In this photograph, taken on 15 November 1960, the sun shows up the stone setts with which the streets are surfaced and ...
Sun Street West and Summer Road
Sunfruit Stores at the junction of these two roads. Some nice adverts along the road for Persil and Danish Bacon amongst others. Notice the two prams outside the shop, both mothers presumably inside Sunfruit ...
Sunny Face of the Community Centre
All visitors to the Community Centre in Gaywood Croft (off Cregoe Street) were greeted right away by this large sunny face on the landing.
'Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: ‘Shropshire Photographic Society. Selected for Display at the 1953 Shropshire Salon of Pictorial Photography’ & 'Sutton Coldfield ...
'Tell Me Mirror'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] Royal Leamington Spa. 1948' & 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. Accepted ...
Tenant's Deposit- Wynn Street
Receipt for the deposit paid by Dorothy Blackford and her husband for their flat on Wynn Street. The Blackford family were paid a visit by the Queen Mother as part of her visit to the area. The Queen ...
The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment go back to Sutton Park
Report from the Birmingham Post about the reunion of the 15th Battalion Royal Warwicks who were raised as the Second Birmingham "Pals" Regiment in 1914. The battalion underwent basic training at Sutton ...
The 15th Battalion veterans back at Sutton Park
Closeup view of the Royal Warwickshire veterans at Sutton Park in 1964.
Chairman R.A. Pritchard is the man to the right of the photograph. The other men in the photograph are not named but are probably ...
The artist David Bomberg
David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. His family moved to London though when he was still an infant.
Bomberg returned to Birmingham ...
The Balsall Heath Panthers
The origins of the club go back to 1947 when Charlie Humphrey, who lived in Balsall Heath Road and attended Dennis Road School, was shown a cycle speedway bike by one of his school friends and began laying ...