The Friends Institute
This was built in 1899 at the expense of Richard Cadbury to provide room for the Society of Friends to run Sunday School classes, clubs, and meetings. It included a hall large enough to seat 2000, a cafe, ...
The current fire station
When the 1912 building was outgrown our present fire station on the corner of Highgate Road opened in 1972.
The Church of Christ
The Church of Christ building opened in 1911 and is still there though in different use. This church had its origins in Charles Henry St. Chapel.
The 1830s
The Edward's estate in Balsall Heath was sold off and developed from 1833 onwards and as time went by a network of roads lined with smaller villas appeared behind the large houses and the Moseley Road ...
Stratford House
However the railway, which was constructed through Balsall Heath in 1840, came straight through the Simcox's land and eventually there was an enormous goods yard at the back of the house. From 1854 the ...
St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church was once the popular and fashionable focus for Balsall Heath and Moseley. It opened in 1853 with seating for over 1000 people but was extended in 1856 because it was still not big enough. ...
St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church was once the popular and fashionable focus for Balsall Heath and Moseley. It opened in 1853 with seating for over 1000 people but was extended in 1856 because it was still not big enough. ...
Moseley Road Methodist Church
The Methodist Church was opened in 1872 and was another grand and imposing building with seating for over 1000 people together with a Sunday School building in Lime Grove from 1886. The Church has always ...
Moseley Road Methodist Church
The Methodist Church was opened in 1872 and was another grand and imposing building with seating for over 1000 people together with a Sunday School building in Lime Grove from 1886. The Church has always ...
Moseley Road Art School
The Moseley Road Art School is another building not used for its original purpose. This first opened in 1900 for secondary pupils with exceptional artistic talent and achieved a fine reputation. In spite ...
J H Butchers Transfer Manufacturers.
This family business was already well established when it moved to these purpose-built premises in 1909. At first they made transfers for labelling bicycles, bedsteads and other metal good but quickly ...
J H Butchers Transfer Manufacturers.
At first they made transfers for labelling bicycles, bedsteads and other metal good but quickly extended their range for many other purposes including transfers for advertising in shop windows. For years ...
J H Butchers Transfer Manufacturers
This family business was already well established when it moved to these purpose-built premises in 1909.
It's not all play
Whilst people are swimming or enjoying the warmth of building someone is downstairs stoking the boilers. Modern boilers tend to be built for the job, with little else in mind.
It's not all play
The boilers in this photograph have something else. The patterns of the rivets and bolts, the shape of the coke doors and the position of the gauges all add up to an object which is not only good at ...
Harry Grigg
In 1913 Harry Grigg went to Blackpool and visited The Casino a new cinema theatre. So impressed was he that he persuaded the manager George Harris to come to Balsall Heath and open a picture house there ...
Congregational Church
The Congregational Church, which opened in 1862 on the corner of Runcorn Road was destroyed by bombing during the Second World War.
Camp Hill Station
Development of Balsall Heath was speeded up by the building of the railway in 1840 and the opening of Camp Hill Station. The second station in Balsall Heath in Brighton Road followed in 1875. Today neither ...