Funeral of Mr. Wainwright in Handsworth
In this diary entry, John Benjamin Stone MP recounts the day of Mr Wainwright's burial in Handsworth.
"Wed July 2nd 1902.
Letters from home saying Mr Wainwright would be buried today.
Left Euston ...
Funeral, Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ
Outside Bethel United Church, Gibson Road after a funeral service.
G. F. Andrews on Freeth Street
G.E. Wootton
This is an abridged version of his biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download.
Few men are more closely linked with the Handsworth of the past 30 years or so ...
Gala Cinema
The Gala Cinema in 1979. Showing is "Flesh Gordon" with "Shivers" on the following week. It had been open as The Gala since 1977 but will always be best remembered as The Broadway and to a lesser extent ...
Gala Cinema, Bristol Street, Lee Bank
When the photograph was taken in around 1980 this cinema in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, was called the Gala Cinema but this was only one of several names it had over the years. The original building having ...
Geese on the Farm
Here we see two of the geese from Balsall Heath City Farm, located on Malvern Street.
George Dixon Grammar School, Edgbaston
George Dixon Grammar School, in City Road, Edgbaston, in an undated but obviously early photograph. The school had started in Oozells Street as the George Dixon Higher Grade School and moved to the City ...
George Onions VC
George Onions won the Victoria Cross in the First World War with the Devonshire Regiment. He managed to take 247 German soldiers prisoner and bring them back to British lines, with the assistance of one ...
George Road ARP Shelter
The fuse box inside the underground shelter. The shelter has not been used since World War II but is still there underneath the George Road flats and retains some of the fixtures and fittings. The fuse ...
Gibson Road by Rosa Perrins
Gibson Road was named after James Watt - whose middle name was Gibson. This painting is by Rosa Perrins who came from Birmingham. Rosa painted rural scenes and exhibited 42 of them at the Royal Birmingham ...
Gilby Road
Lincoln Tower, an eleven storey block at the end of the Gilby Road estate. It was completed in 1968.
Gillott Road during the Blitz
Although German bonbing targetted factories and the like during the Blitz, many houses were also hit. Raids were usually at night and each morning after meant dealing with scenes like this.
Gilly Field, Livingstone Road
Girl in the Street
This is Janet taken on Bromson Avenue. Janet is now living in the States. She is teaching in New York. Her sister went on to work for the equivalent of the Sunday Times in New York.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth. (King Edward VI school). Built in 1911 to take in the girls from Summer Hill, which had become an old and inappropriate school building.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth. (King Edward VI school). Built in 1911 to take in the girls from Summer Hill, which had become an old and inappropriate school building.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth. (King Edward VI school). Built in 1911 to take in the girls from Summer Hill, which had become an old and inappropriate school building.