Lee Bank Sign
The old Lee Bank sign which was located on Holliday Street near the junction with Granville Street.
Lee Bank Video
Lee Bank Video was one of the stores at the end of Lee Bank Middleway near to the Bristol Street junction. Its fortunes probably declined with the erosion of the video rental industry by DVD. This sign ...
Leisure Centre
In June 1983 work started on the new leisure pool, which was to replace the old swimming baths in Grove Lane. The leisure centre has the following facilities, two swimming pools, (1) 15-metre small pool, ...
Letter from James Wyatt to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1811, page 2
This is the second page of a letter from the architect James Wyatt to Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of Matthew Boulton the industrialist. In it Wyatt says
'Understanding that you are in town ...
Letter from James Wyatt to Matthew Robinson Boulton, 1811, wrapper
This is the wrapper for a letter from the architect James Wyatt was sent to Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of Matthew Boulton the industrialist. Foley Place was the name of Wyatt's house in London. ...
Letter of reference for Eunice Finlayson
Eunice Finlayson arrived from Jamaica on 11th February 1957 and set up home in Handsworth, Birmingham. This letter was written by the Reverend Morgan of the Jamaican House of Representatives as a reference ...
Letter to Mr Evans regarding livery, page 1
This letter from Soho House to Mr Evans of Bull Street concerns the livery for the coachman and footman. It reads
'Mr Evans is requested to observe that in the next Livery Suit for Mr Boulton's Coachman ...
Letter to Mr Evans regarding livery, page 2
The second page of a letter from Soho House to Mr Evans of Bull Street concerns the livery for the coachman and footman. It reads
'Mr Evans is requested to observe that in the next Livery Suit for ...
Lewis Green - Local Photographer
Lewis Green lived at Hogarth House and took a large number of photographs of the Lee Bank area. As was common at the time he had them developed as slides and would show them in his living room to interested ...
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Henry Wilkinson
This is an abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download. Joseph Henry Wilkinson lived at "Elm Wood", on Hamstead Hill.
Mr Wilkinson was born in Bradford, ...
Lieutenant General The Honourable Somerset Gough Calthorpe
A Biography of Somerset Calthorpe, owner of Perry Hall in 1899, taken from the Handsworth Magazine.
Lieutenant General the Hon. Somerset Gough Calthorpe is the fourth son of Baron Calthorpe of Calthorpe, ...
Lieutenant George P. Lempriere
George Lempriere died at his home in Wilton Road, Handsworth aged 93 - one week short of his 94th birthday. He was from his early twenties famed as a balloonist and aeronaut around the world, enlivening ...
Lillian Carleton, Mary Fisher and Dolly Lovatt in Beach Street
Lindy Dunnett (nee Carleton) recalls that: "Dolly was the licensee of the outdoor at the bottom of Beach Street. As a youngster I used to help them to do the books and occasionally helped change the barrels ...
Lion of Benmore
Outside a house in Murrell Close stands a pair of lions standing guard over the property.
Liverys and Wages allowed to Men Servants, cover
This is the cover of a memorandum setting out the wages and livery for male servants at Soho House. The memorandum intself is also available on the site. By this date Soho House was the home of Matthew ...
Liverys and Wages allowed to Men Servants, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and livery for male servants at Soho House. By this date Soho House was the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton and his young family.
William Newbold the Coachman who ...
Looking across Attwood Green
This is the view from the staff kitchen at the new Optima offices on Bell Barn Road. Behind the trees in the foreground can be seen Moonlit Park.