Communication Row
Houses in a yard in Communication Row. The buildings in the background appear to be out of use, which may explain why the young lad has found such a precarious place to sit, but there are still plants ...
Communities in Handsworth after 1945
Text: Malcolm Dick and Rajinder K Dudrah
Sections
1. Handsworth Today
2. Handsworth and the Soho Road
3. 1945-1970
4. 1970-1985
5. 1985
6. After 1985
7. The Multicultural Soho Road
8. The ...
Community centre under demolition (with film clip)
This digger demolished the whole Centre in about one hour! The area is part of the re-development undertaken by Crest Nicholson and Optima Community Association. the Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off ...
Congregational Chapel, Union Row, Handsworth
Congregational Chapel, Union Row, Handsworth. This photograph was taken in 1870. The chapel was remodelled and expanded by the pastor in residence a year after this image was recorded. The Rev. Robert ...
Congregational Church of Sparkbrook on Ladypool Road
The church was opened in 1894 as the Congregational Mission Church. The middle front of the building is now a shop.
Congregational Church, Soho Hill
Built in 1892 and was the home of the Soho Men's Movement
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Handsworth
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Hunters Road, Handsworth. Built to the designs of A.W. Pugin, St Mary’s Convent opened in 1841, a few months after St Chad’s Cathedral opened a mile down the road.
Benefactors ...
Conybere Street
Carol Arnall's book “Birmingham Girls” recalls her life growing up in the area.
"My sister Pauline and I lived in Coneybere Street, Balsall Heath, with our mom during the mid to late 1940s - up the ...
Conybere Street celebrations
Decorations for the coronation in 1902 of Edward VII. This coronation had been postponed once due to the King's illness.
Cope Street
Cope Street on a sunny day in June 1956.
Cope Street
View of Cope Street from the junction with Springfield Street
Corner of Irving and Bow Street
The redevelopment of the Lee Bank area in the fifties and sixties seemed to bypass a small area along Bow Street and onto Irving Street. Some old former factory and small business workshops survive along ...
Corner of Villa Road and Hamstead Road
The writing on the paving reads C.O. O'Neill boundary. The photograph was taken outside the old Post Office.
Coronation day in Beechfield Road
Across the country there were street parties for the coronation of Elizabeth II who became Queen officially in 1952 on the death of her father George VI. These were the first such parties since VE and ...
Coronation Day in Mary Street
It’s Coronation Day, June 2nd 1953. Wearing their party hats, Shay and his sister Elizabeth (Lily) are sitting on Andy’s first mode of transport, the rigid framed ex WD (War dept) motorbike. Note the ...
Cottage at the Technical School, Handsworth
Old cottage on the site of Handsworth Technical School in Golds Hill Road, Handsworth. 1908
Cottage in Soho Hill, Handsworth
Old cottage in Soho Hill, Handsworth, 1906. At one time this house was occupied by one of Matthew Boulton's gamekeepers.
Cottage on Holyhead Road
Undated picture of cottage on Holyhead Road.