Building St Thomas's School
Two pupils of St Thomas's School on Granville Street photographed watching construction of the new school on Great Colmore Street.
Building the Duck Pond
Here we see the building of a duck pond at Balsall Heath City Farm, Malvern Street. The farm was the first building on the site created when the area underwent redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s. It ...
Building the Etap Hotel
The hotel, at the Bristol Street end of great Colmore Street, was constructed in modular fashion. Each room being dropped into place and connected to the next. In the background are the lovely top floors ...
Building The Kingstanding Estate
‘CITY’S NEW SUBURB
MAKING THE DESERT BLOOM
DEVELOPMENT OF PERRY BARR ON MODERN LINES’
Headlines in the Birmingham News for 21st April 1928.
As early as 1913 an inquiry ...
Building the Middleway Blocks
Building of the four Middleway Blocks commenced in the early nineteen sixties. At the time this picture was taken significant land clearance has obviously taken place in what was to become the open parkland ...
Building the new Central Library
A view of the scaffolding around the new Library as it was being built. The two concrete pillars to the left and right of the picture are part of the Library structure. Intriguingly the picture also manages ...
Building work off Wheeley's Lane
Building of new flats by Crest Nicholson. The site is on the corner of Wheeley's Lane and Bath Row. To the rear of the photograph is the old Accident Hospital - formerly the Queen's Hospital.
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand advert 1958
Advert for Swan Brand from the Birmingham Student carnival magazine, 1958.
Bulpitt and Sons Swan Brand catalogue 1938
Long handled frying pans from the Bulpitt and Sons 1938 trade catalogue.
Bunny Johnson, Boxer
"Bunny Johnson embarked on a professional boxing career in 1968 and quickly established a reputation for being a extremely powerful and determined fighter. Despite giving away 23lbs to Richard Dunn, he ...
Burgalary at Boulton Road Schools
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald" May 2nd 1891.
This cutting gives an account of a break in at Boulton Road School. As the burglars where unable to find any money they took £3.00 worth ...
Burial Of James Stone at St Mary's Church
The photographer John Benjamin Stone's brother James was a prominent local figure in Handsworth. Most notably he was one of the main promoters of the opeing of Victoria Park. The following is an extract ...
Burrows is brought down
The fire brigade arrived after ten minutes; by now Burrows was unconscious and they spent thirty minutes strapping him into a harness (with the aid of Wilcox) and lowered him to the ground whereupon he ...
Bursting of the canal at Edgbaston
Under the heading 'Serious accident at Birmingham' this print illustrates the scene that resulted when the Worcester and Birmingham Canal burst on Sunday morning, 26 May 1872. Considerable damage was ...
Bus yard and forge, Handsworth
Bus yard and blacksmith's forge, Handsworth, in a retouched image from 1871.
Button from the Luckock Collection
This button is of the type which would have been produced by Matthew Boulton at the Soho Manufactory. Boulton produced a wide range of buttons and buckles which are shown in his pattern books. Others ...
Button from the Luckock Collection
This mother of pearl, gilt and blue glass button is of the type which would have been produced by Matthew Boulton at the Soho Manufactory. Boulton produced a wide range of buttons and buckles which are ...