Councillor T E Forsyth - Lawyer
This abridged biography is from The Handsworth Magazine.The full biography is available as a download.
Thomas Edward Forsyth lived at 60 Thornhill Road in Handsworth.
He is a native of the county ...
Councillor Thomas Fletcher
This is an abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full biography is available as a download.
Thomas Fletcher lived at 119 Stamford Road in Handsworth in 1900. Prior to that he resided ...
Councillor W.J. Lancaster J.P.
William James Lancaster was born in Birmingham on the 9th of April, 1846. His love of science is an hereditary possession, for not only his father but his forefathers for several generations were also ...
Court Four William Street
Numbers one and two in Court Four William Street. Back in 1905 William Street was twice as long as it is now as it extended through the current Shepherd's Gardens estate out to Bath Row. There were one ...
Court One, Ridley Street, Lee Bank
Court One, off Ridley Street, Lee Bank. The days of back-to-back housing were numbered when this photograph was taken in the late 1940s, but clearly these houses were still occupied at the time. Ridley ...
Court Three, Summer Road, Lee Bank
Court Three, off Summer Road, Lee Bank, seen in a photograph taken in 1968. The small bay window and the door surround lend a little more interest to this house than might be found in many of the old ...
Courts 23 and 24 in William Street.
Early twentieth century view of William Street Court Houses. At this time William Street ran across Bishopsgate Street and through the area now known as Shepherd's Gardens.
Courtyard in Great Colmore Street
This is a courtyard to the rear of Great Colmore Street. The photograph is undated but dates from late nineteenth/ early twentieth century. The presence of the family on the doorstep adds considerable ...
Courtyard of the Salvage Works at Rotton Park Street
The main courtyard area of the Works. The picture was taken when the Works was opened in October 1932. The Works was on Rotton Park Street not too far from the Reservoir.
Coxwell Road
This road ran between Reservoir Road and Hyde Road. Oliver Road ran off it and led to the Orphanage and Grammar School. Today the street has been realigned and named Coxwell Gardens.
Coxwell Road from Hyde Road
View in the nineteen sixties of Coxwell ROad. Looking from the Hyde Road end down towards Reservoir Road.
Craven Arms
Taken on a rainy day in Summer 2004. The flags are flying as England at that time were still playing in the European Football Championships. The Craven Arms was proposed for local or statutory listed ...
Craven Arms, Gough Street
Detail of the beautiful decoration on the facade of the Craven Arms Public House in Gough Street.
Cregoe Street 2004
This view is towards what was most famously the site of Bradshaws. The turning to the right is where Irving Street once was and directly opposite was Latimer Street. Bradshaw's Stores stood either side ...
Cregoe Street and Irving Street, Lee Bank
The junction of Cregoe Street and Irving Street, Lee Bank. The boarded-up shop on the corner was formerly H.B. Bradshaw Ltd, who were drapers, carpet specialists and men's, ladies and children's outfitters. ...
Cregoe Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also includes the following streets: Crantock Road, Crawford Avenue, Crawford Street, Crescent, The Crescent, Crescent Wharf, Creswell Road, Crick Lane and Crockett's Lane
Cregoe Street in 1960
This is either the lower or upper part of Cregoe Street on the side where the Bell Barn shopping centre and Woodman pub are at present (2004). Cregoe Street used to to be split by Great Colmore Street ...
Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
View of Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, looking towards Bell Barn Road which can just be seen at the end of the street. At the time when this photograph was taken, on 7 March 1965, the redevelopment programme ...