St Alban's Church
The old St Alban's Church
Highgate Baptist Church
The modern Baptist Church in Highgate seen in 2000
Friends' Hall and Institute
The church at the rear of the Friends' Hall and Institute 1899 now used by the New Testament Church of God.
Pollock brothers
St Alban's Church, Conybere Street, began as a small mission established in 1865 by the Pollock brothers, who were Anglican priests. The brothers were attacked in 1867 for their high-church rituals, but ...
Guru nanak Gurdwara
The Guru nanak Gurdwara Bhat singh Sabha and Community Centre on Moseley Road 2002
Places of Work
This magnificent brass clock was Samuel Heath & Sons contribution to the Great Exhibition in 1853
The Ephraim Phillips factory today.
Ephraim Phillips started in Bissell Street in 1880 and, although the company is no longer there, the building still stands today.
Ryland's Factory
Ryland's paint and varnish factory in Haden Street dating from 1860 and still there today. The firm owed it success to the mastery of a lacquer which could be applied without heat. The lacquer was produced ...
Samuel Heath & Sons
Samuel Heath & Sons' brassfounding factory in Leopold Street, established in 1830, and still flourishing today. It has been run by five successive generations of the same family and still occupies the ...
Ryland's Workers
A group of Ryland's workers, c. 1914.
Robinson's Removals
Robinson's Removals & Furniture Depository and Malcolm House Moseley Road
Moseley Road fire station
The new Moseley Road fire station built in 1972.
Moseley Road tram depot
A group of workers at Moseley Road tram depot which opened in 1907
Elcock & Sons Ltd
Elcock & Sons Ltd. metal spinners and pressworkers in Tindal Street. Another family firm. Elcock's was founded in the 1890s in a back garden workshop.
G H Bradbury
Bradbury's factory in Highgate Square, originally the garden of a house fronting Moseley Road. This family firm was founded in 1859.
Highgate Road tram depot
The former Highgate Road tram depot which opened in 1913. At the time of the photograph in the 1980s it had been converted to a maintenance depot for ambulances.
Edward Road Police Station
Established in 1869, the police station in Edward Road is still in operation today together with the "blue lamp".
The old Moseley Road Fire Station
The former fire station in Highgate Square which originally opened in 1912. It is still there today and is the home of a drama college.