City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Postcard showing one of the exhibits from the Beale Memorial Collection in the Natural History Department of the Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. These Tawny owls were among numerous stuffed animals ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
The City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, seen in a postcard view looking along Edmund Street. In this rather low-angle photograph the 1912 extension to the Art Gallery has not yet been erected. The ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
The extension to the City Art Gallery, Birmingham. This postcard view looks along Congreve Street towards Yeoville Thomason's original 1885 Art Gallery building with its clock tower. The extension was ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
The City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, in a postcard view dating from around 1900. Of interest here are the buildings on the extreme left which were swept away when the Art Gallery extension was ...
City Road, Edgbaston
City Road, Edgbaston, looking south from the junction with Dudley Road. In this postcard view a few cars are visible, dating it perhaps to the early 1900s, but otherwise nothing much seems to be happening. ...
Communication Row
Houses in a yard in Communication Row. The buildings in the background appear to be out of use, which may explain why the young lad has found such a precarious place to sit, but there are still plants ...
Communication Row
Today Communication Row features the Nautical Club and the back entrance to ITNet Ltd. Here 100 years earlier it features back to back housing of the type so common across the city centre. The turn around ...
Conybere Street celebrations
Decorations for the coronation in 1902 of Edward VII. This coronation had been postponed once due to the King's illness.
Coronation Medal of George V and Queen Mary
Commemorative medal for the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary on June 22nd 1911. This is the front of the medal. It was struck by the Handsworth Urban District Council in what was their final ...
Coronation Medal of George V and Queen Mary, reverse
Commemorative medal for the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary on June 22nd 1911. This is the reverse side of the medal. It was struck by the Handsworth Urban District Council in what was their ...
Cottage at the Technical School, Handsworth
Old cottage on the site of Handsworth Technical School in Golds Hill Road, Handsworth. 1908
Council House, Birmingham
Humorous postcard issued in a series called 'If Birmingham were Venice', featuring Birmingham buildings, in this case the Council House, in a canalside setting complete with gondolas and Venetian-style ...
Council House, Birmingham
Postcard depicting the Council House in Birmingham illuminated to mark the coronation of King Edward VII. A crowd fills Victoria Square, although the message on the front of this early postcard makes ...
Councillor George Baines
A newspaper cutting from the Despatch, 22nd November 1905.
Familiar Figures no 797.
A caricature and brief description of the career of George Baines of Handsworth.
He owned 2 of the "best farms in ...
Court Four William Street
Numbers one and two in Court Four William Street. Back in 1905 William Street was twice as long as it is now as it extended through the current Shepherd's Gardens estate out to Bath Row. There were one ...
Courts 23 and 24 in William Street.
Early twentieth century view of William Street Court Houses. At this time William Street ran across Bishopsgate Street and through the area now known as Shepherd's Gardens.
Courtyard in Great Colmore Street
This is a courtyard to the rear of Great Colmore Street. The photograph is undated but dates from late nineteenth/ early twentieth century. The presence of the family on the doorstep adds considerable ...
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 ...