Vietnamese New Year
Mr Hoi Van Ho, the Leader of the Elderly Club, announces that it will reopen, after it has been closed for a few years.
Vietnamese New Year
Lighting the incense at the New Year celebrations in preparation for the Vietnamese ancestors event.
Vietnamese New Year
The Ancestors ceremony at the New Year celebrations.
Vietnamese New Year
Reverend Thich Phuoc Hue gives New Year greetings to the Vietnamese people.
View from St Paul's Church
In the 1970s most of Balsall Heath between Moseley Rd and Pershore Road was demolished to make way for new developments. The top of Moseley Road Library can be seen in the front of the picture and Mount ...
View of trees in Perry Park by Charles Barber
Charles Barber (1783 - 1854). Charles Barber went to Liverpool to teach drawing and painted in oils and watercolours. Charles exhibited regularly at the Liverpool Academy of Arts of which he was a member ...
Vote For Locker-Lampson 1922
This poster was used as part of Oliver Locker-Lampson's campaign in Handsworth during the 1922 General Election. He stood as the Conservative (Unionist) candidate replacing the retiring sitting MP Ernest ...
Vote Yes
"Vote Yes" reads the spray painted words on the roller blind of a shop in the Bell Barn Shopping Centre off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. The message was encouraging local residents to vote in favour of ...
W. H. Booth - Handsworth Fire Brigade
Abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available for download. William Henry Booth lived at 213 Church Hill Road in Handsworth.
Mr W H Booth is a son of the late Edward ...
W.E.L.D. Community Education and Arts Centre
Wages and allowance for Grooms, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and clothing allowances for various grooms employed by Matthew Robinson Boulton at Soho House.
Thomas Poynter came to Soho as Groom 1st February 1820 on wages of ...
Wages and allowance for Grooms, Soho House
This is the reverse of a memorandum which sets out the wages and clothing allowances for various grooms employed by Matthew Robinson Boulton at Soho House. (The memorandum itself is also available).
Thomas ...
Waiting for the park to open
Children from St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street waiting at the gate for the official opening of the new park. Sunset Park was opened with the help of children from St Thomas's and Woodview School ...
Walking and talking
The first of two pictures. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat of a couple deep in conversation. The outcome in the second picture shows them walking with a suitcase. The story behind it though ...
War Memorial in Handsworth Cemetery
Commemorating the dead of both World Wars.
Washday on Hogarth House
For these two ladies (one is Lewis Green's mother) this was a very different washday experience. Both would have remembered the "brew 'us" in the yards of the back to back housing and the network of lines ...
Wasiffa Sound System, Handsworth Park
Weary of Life - Shocking Case at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne Collection gives details of the case of eleven year old Edith Johnson. She lived with her father and stepmother in Franchise Street, Perry Barr and was a pupil ...