F.E. Bailey Grosvenor Bakery
Frank Edward Bailey traded at 48 Grove Lane - one door from the junction with Grove Avenue.The business is not listed as the Grosvenor Bakery in the trade directory, perhaps the name was a pun on the ...
F.H. Simms - Family Grocer
An advert for the shop which, as the advert says, was at 29 Monument Road. As well as being a grocer it supplied tea and other provisions.
F.H. Weller Culinary Service
An advertisement for "Culinary Service" by F. H. Weller of 113, Holyhead Road.
Publicising products such as bottled and canned english peas, beetroot, split peas, lentils and fruits. Frank Henry Weller ...
F.W. Smallwood - Chemists on Grove Lane
Smallwood the chemists was located at 141 Grove Lane. They traded in the early part of the twentieth century. This bottle of "stomachic mixture" is on display at the Handsworth Historical Society.
Factory Road
This photograph was taken from the bottom of St Michaels Hill. The road to the right is Newton Place and that on the left is Factory Road showing the factory building of C.W.Cheney & Son Ltd., manufacturers ...
Factory Road, Handsworth
Factory Road, Handsworth, looking north towards St Michael's Church on Soho Hill in 1968. This area is the site of Matthew Boulton's Soho Works.
Photographer unknown
Farm at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old farm on the site of Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth sometimes known as Wilkes Green Farm. The school, subsequently Rookery Road County Primary School, was built in 1898.
Farm Cottages, Wood Lane
Undated photograph but most of the pictures in the original date from circa the 1960s.
Farm Houses, Wood Lane Handsworth
Wood Lane, Handsworth, painting of the farm houses.
Painting by J J Hughes
Photograph taken 1965
Farm Houses, Wood Lane, Handsworth
Wood Lane, Handsworth. Painting of the farm houses.
Painting by J J Hughes. Photograph taken 1965
Farm in Wood Lane
Oil painting by John Joseph Hughes. Hughes, who lived at Villa Road in Handsworth, was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited at galleries in London and Birmingham. Between 1862 - 1908 he exhibited ...
Farming near Queslett Road, Kingstanding
Farming near Queslett Road, Kingstanding, at harvest-time. In this photograph from the 1940s scene a reaping machine can be seen, together with traditional stooks and haystacks in the background.
Father Christmas comes to Lewis's
Advert printed in the Birmingham Evening Mail. Every year Lewis's Department Store in Birmingham City Centre would welcome Father Christmas. His arrival at the Grotto was preceded by a tour across Birmingham. ...
Father Joseph V. Hymers - St. Catherine of Siena
Father Hymers took over at St Catherine's after the death of Father Fenn. This was not immediate as Dr. E. Berry succeeded Father Fenn first but left in February 1908 after only a few months. Apart from ...
Father Patrick Maguire - St Catherine of Siena
Father Maguire came to St Catherine's from Tile Hill in Coventry during October 1961. Father Maguire oversaw the move from the old St Catherine's to the new building which stands to this day. He also ...
Feast of Tabernacles at Singers Hill Synagogue 1915
This picture, from Picture World newspaper, shows the congregation gathered around the Succoth.
Feast of Tabernacles at Singers Hill Synagogue in 1915
The minister and helpers. The Reverend J. Finck in the centre with, to his right, the Reverend B. Alperowitz and, to his left, the Reverend and Mrs A. Cohen. Services were conducted each day during the ...
Feeding the Goats
An early picture of the farm in action. Here we see one the Farm staff showing a group of local children the Farm's herd of goats.