Election notice for Henry Joseph Odell
Odell was the Labour candidate for the December 1918 General Election. Odell lived and worked in Handsworth; he was a button maker and lived at 66 Whitehall Road.
Electric Tram
A picture of the first electric tram to serve on Moseley Road. the corner of Park road can be seen in the background. c. 1907
Electric Trams
This letter to the Mail from 'Birchfield' complains of the confusion arising from the electrification of tramlines. Aston, Birmingham and Handsworth all electrified their lines at different times leading ...
Eliza Tedstone - Ladywood's oldest resident
This interesting story is from the Birmingham Gazette. They paid five guineas to Mrs Tedstone as their oldest reader! The story contains some interesting details about her birth at Condover in 1815 and ...
Elizabeth McKeon remembers by Jim Fitzpatrick
Our large Irish family moved from Stratford Road Sparkbrook to Mary Street Balsall Heath in 1949.
Early memories are of trams running down Mary Street, the milkman delivering by horse and cart, and us ...
Ellen Street, Ladywood
Ellen Street, Ladywood, photographed on 12 December 1941. Enemy action had caused considerable damage to the Great Western Railway bonded warehouse in the background.
Ellis Street, Lee Bank
An impressive pedimented doorway in Ellis Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 27th June 1957 when demolition was clearly not far off. To judge from the slope of the pavement this building was on the west ...
Elsie Price on Anderton Street
Elsie Price outside her shop at 29 Anderton Street in 1956. The shopfront includes familiar adverts for Walls Ice Cream and Park Drive cigarettes. A favourite of mine is the Beech Nut chewing gum machine ...
Elvetham Road
This view of Elvetham Road is from the junction with Pakenham Road looking up the hill. The church at the top right is St James's Church which is situated at the corner of Elvetham and St James's Road. ...
Emily Arms Public House
The Emily Arms Public House located at the junction of Emily Street and Upper Highgate Street. One of many popular "watering holes" in the area.
Emvee furniture by Morgan and Viggers
Sales of furniture by Morgan & Viggers Ltd, of 81, 83, 85 Soho Road. The premises would have been roughly halfway between the junctions of Piers Road and Holliday Road. The shop sold period furniture, ...
Endwood Court
Endwood Court was built for James Russell of the Crown Tube Works in 1838. It was designed by the architect William Thomas and cost £7,000.
Later occupants included William Sharp, a local magistrate ...
Endwood Court
Endwood Court was built for James Russell of the Crown Tube Works in 1838. It was designed by the architect William Thomas and cost £7,000.
Later occupants included William Sharp, a local magistrate ...
Entrance Hall, Soho House
This photograph of the Entrance Hall at Soho House was taken by Birmingham photographers Lewis and Randall in 1927. By this date Soho House, the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew ...
Entrance Hall, Soho House
This view of the Entrance Hall at Soho House was taken in 1927 by Lewis and Randall. By then the former home of Matthew Boulton was Soho Hall Hotel.
Just visible behind the further column is a passage ...
Entrance to St Lukes School
Now a Sure Start centre. This was St Luke's Primary School and the old front entrance still clearly reminds us of this fact some four years after the school's closure! Countless numbers of children passed ...
Entrance to the Reservoir
The advert to the right is for Bingo, presuambly at the Tower, with a £1,000 jackpot to be won. The photograph is undated.
Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson MP
Meysey-Thompson (1859-1944) was a Justice of the Peace and also MP for Handsworth from 1906 to 1922. Apart from being an MP his principal career was in the army. He was a Major in the Hussars and became ...