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Stratford House, Highgate

Stratford House was originally a farmhouse built in 1601 by Ambrose Rotton. The Rotton Park area is named after him.

Stratford House, Highgate

Stratford House was originally a farmhouse built in 1601 by Ambrose Rotton, and is still an outstanding feature of Moseley Road today. For a period from 1854 it was used as a private girls' school. The ...

Mary Street

The rear yard area of number 73 Mary Street. This was taken during the period of urban renewal when some were still living in housing which had been earmarked for demolition.

Clifton Road Junior and Infant Schools

Clifton Road Junior and Infant Schools, together with new offices for King's Norton School Board, opened in 1878 on the corner of Clifton Road and Hertford Street. The Junior School moved to new premises ...

Bissell Street

Hackwood's Jack Tar Soap works with, looming to the left, the tower of St David's Church. The church had closed in 1947.

Runcorn Road Vine Avenue

Runcorn Road Vine Avenue bomb damage

Runcorn Rd Bombed

Bomb damage on the corner of Runcorn Road and Vine Avenue

Oldfield Rd Bombed

Hagley Villas off Taunton Road

These date from the 1890s. This part of Balsall Heath was one of the last areas to be developed. It was part of the estate of John Gregory Watkins who died at his home, Woodfield House, Ombersley near ...

Lime Grove

This undated photograph shows bomb damage in Lime Grove during the Second World War. Elizabeth Mckeon says, "My friends and I joined the Girl Guides and Brownies in Tindal Street, and later a youth ...

Belgrave Road

Belgrave Road Bomb damage

Old Moseley Road Fire Station Mascot

Bruce the Moseley Road Fire Station Mascot advertising the National Relief Fund in operation during World War one

White Street

Half Demolished Homes Corner of White Street and Brunswick Road. 13 June 1980

Moseley Road

Corner of Moseley Road and Edgbaston Road (now Edgbaston Road East) and the site of Robinsons Removals and Furniture Repository and Malcolm House. Note the tram lines and the poles supplying the power ...

White Street

Half Demolished Homes White Street. 13/6/80

White Street

Half Demolished Homes in White Street. The Gladstone pub, Clifton Road can just be seen on the right. 13 June 1980

Ladypool Road

Midland Bank, Ladypool Road. March 1980

St Pauls Church

St Paul's church stood on the junction of Moseley Road and St Paul's Road itself. The church was demolished in January 1980 due to rising overheads and dwindling congregation. The church moved down to ...