Broad Street - April 1938
This site is now where Symphony Hall stands. Just to the right of the canal for many years stood this area comprising St Peter's Row and Martin's Place. Just visible to the left is The Church of The Messiah; ...
Broad Street Antiques
This area of Broad Street was well known for its antique shops. The two roads running to the left and right of the black and white building are St Peter's Row and Martin's Place. This area was demolished ...
Broad Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including Broad Road. Use the "zoomify" tab to read the text clearly. Part two of Broad Street in on a seperate page.
Broad Street part 2 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following roads: Broad Meadow Lane, Broad Oaks Road, Broadfields Road. Use the "zoomify" tab to read the text clearly.
Broad Street, Birmingham
The premises of Rabone Brothers & Co., Broad Street, Birmingham, after bombing during the Blitz. The photograph of smoking remains was taken on 10 April 1941. Rabone Brothers were listed in directories ...
Broad Street, Birmingham
Major redevelopment work going on the end of Broad Street, Birmingham, on 27 April 1923. Broad Street is heading off at top left and Easy Row to the right. The area in the centre is where the Hall of ...
Broad Street, Ladywood
The premises of Geo. Oram & Company, 187 and 188 Broad Street, Birmingham. In directories the company is described as 'house furnishers' and their shop was on the south side of Broad Street between Bishopsgate ...
Broad Street, Ladywood
Hand-tinted postcard view of Broad Street, Birmingham, looking east towards the city centre. On the left in this Victorian street scene is Barclays Bank on the corner of Sheepcote Street, with its slightly ...
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.
Brought To Book - Handsworth Library
The beginnings
In the 1880 Kelly's Directory Handsworth is described as 'a fashionable suburb to the north-west of Birmingham, containing many handsome mansions and villa residences' Although only ...
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
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
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, ...