Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
A view of Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, looking south towards Bell Barn Road. Its days were certainly numbered when this photograph was taken on 7 March 1960, but cars and curtains imply that the houses were ...
Cregoe Street, Lee Bank
A view of the east side of Cregoe Street, Lee Bank, not long before demolition as part of the 1960s redevelopment of the area. When this photograph was taken on 28 August 1961 it looks as though the foreground ...
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 ...
Crimean Veteran: Death of Bombardier Townley of Ladywood
"One of the few remaining Crimean Veterans is removed by the death at the age of 87 of Bombardier Henry Townley of Blythe Street, Ladywood, where he lived with his son-in-law. He enlisted when a youth ...
Crockett's Road junction with Holyhead Road
Taken on March 17th 1937. The advert on the wall is for Barrett's Boot and shoe makers of Handsworth.
Crown Inn on corner of Cope Street and Springfield Street
Undated photograph of the Crown Inn but probably from the fifties or sixties.
Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia meets Kosovan Refugees in Balsall Heath
Crown Princess Katherine of Yugoslavia comes to visit at the start of a trip to support Kosovan refugees. Princess Katherine (born 1943 in Athens) has dedicated much of her time to charitable activities ...
Cuddeston Pool on the Cherry Orchard Estate
Cuddeston Pool was situated on the site of the present school in Cherry Orchard Road. Originally it was thought to have been a gravel pit, which had been filled by local springs and streams.
CURRYING FAVOUR?
Norma Green & Mohammed Ali tuck into 'The Edwina Curry" - a special meal to launch the opening of Joseph Chamberlain College's Enterprise Restaurant to promote healthy eating, May 1987. At that time Edwina ...
Custard Pie Wall 1987
Raising funds for a good cause and fun for, at least, some of the participants.
D. Ayre on Ellen Street
This was a groceries, provisions and general stores. Adverts in evidence include those for Twinings teas and coffees, Lyons tea, Typhoo tea, Park Drive cigarettes and Midland Counties ice cream. In the ...
Dan Jones interview 1
Dan Jones was born in Handsworth in 1929, in a maternity home in Heathfield Road. He lived in Holyhead Road with his parents who were both deaf and mute, his father died when he was a child, so his mother ...
Dan Jones interview 2
Dan Jones was born in Handsworth in 1929. He went to St James's School and sang in the choir at St James's Church. He then moved to Wattville Road School, where his life became overshadowed by war. But ...
Dan Lawrence interview
Dan Lawrence was born in Jamaica in 1922 and came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. At first he lived in rented asccomodation in Harborne and Edgbaston then moved to lodgings in Handsworth, ...
Darbyshire's
An advert for the business which was at 297 Monument Road. They were picture framers who also specialised in re-gilding frames. The advert is from the St Mark's Parish Magazine of 1907. Photographs were ...
Dares Brewery, Belgrave Road
The premises of Dares Brewery Limited in Belgrave Road. The site is now home to Birmingham Central Mosque on Belgrave Middleway,
Dares Brewery, Belgrave Road
Advert for Dares Ales. This is a black and white copy of the original colour advert. Dares were based on what is now the middleway. The mosque stands on what was the site today; the road now bears no ...
Darwin Street
Caption reads "The centre of the district for which the mission church is needed. There are crowded courts behind the houses". A wintry somewhat forlorn scene.