Broadway Cinema
The West End Brewery owned by George Hemming & Sons stood at the corner of Wrentham Street in 1889. It was on this site in September 1911 that building began on a cinema. Designed by Harold Seymore Scott ...
Broadway Cinema
Centre spread pages for the Broadway Cinema leaflet. The films listed as showing at the time are "Catch My Smoke" (1922) starring Tom Mix and "The Love Image" (1923 - known as "Face On The Bar-Room Floor" ...
Broadway Cinema
The Broadway Cinema was located on Bristol Street, near to Wrentham Street. This leaflet is from the 1920's; at the time the manager was Bernard F. Smith. One of the attractions, apart from films, was ...
Bromsgrove Street
This image was taken during the blitz. The road is closed due to unsafe buildings. To the right can be read asign for J.P. Udal - Wire Work Department. Above it is a sign for Reliance Jig & Tool Service: ...
Brought To Book
Browsing for bargain books at the Balsall Heath Carnival. The gentleman in the forground has found a Len Deighton thriller.
Broughton Road
This photograph was taken on July 24th 1968.
Browne's Green House
This house was probably built around 1800 although there had been a house on the site before that. James Chance the glass manufacturer lived here in the 1850s.
The house was demolished around 1900 ...
Brownes Green Lodge
This view of the Lodge dates from about 1900 when it still had a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around the time this photograph was taken, ...
Brownes Green Lodge
The Lodge is still standing at the time of writing. There was originally also a house on the site but this was demolished in 1900, although the ice-house survived till 1951. One famous visitor was Oliver ...
Brownes Green Lodge
About 1870 The Lodge was built in 1810 and added to the Statutory List of the Department of the Environment as having special architectural or historic interest.
Brownes Green Lodge
This photograph of Browne's Green Lodge shows Miss Allen who lived there and sold sweets to the children at Browne's Green School. The lodge still stands today. Browne's Green House was demolished around ...
Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley
This painting of Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley shows it with a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. The lodge still stands today.
Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around ...
Brownes Green: Keeper's Cottage
Brownes Green house was demolished at the end of the nineteenth century. It was built towards the end of the eighteenth century by Nathaniel Clarke and stood to the rear of a triangle with Handsworth ...
Browning Street corner cafe
This is probably at the junction with Great Tindal Street and St Vincent Street. A very different view to today. Back in the pre-WW1 years the Price family moved into Browning Street having moved from ...
Browning Street in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Broomfield Road, Brougham Street, Broughton Crescent, Broughton Road, Brueton Street, Brunswick Gardens, Brunswick Road
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood, 1934. Brown's Green takes its name from one Roger Browne who paid a yearly rental of 5 shillings for a 'croft' there in the 1530s. The later 18th-century Brown's Green ...
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood, 1934. Brown's Green takes its name from one Roger Browne who paid a yearly rental of 5 shillings for a 'croft' there in the 1530s. The later 18th-century Brown's Green ...
Bruce Harris - Electrical Engineer
Bruce Harris traded on Lee Bank Road and was located right next to Villa Place (which can just be made out in the wall plaque to the left). In the Trade Directory for 1960 he is listed as being next door ...