New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth. View from the rear looking up Sandwell Road towards Holyhead Road, from a photograph that appeared in the Birmingham Daily Mail, December 7th 1901.
New Inns Hotel, Handsworth
New Inns Hotel, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, showing the Banqueting Room and Ballroom. This was an advertisement issued by Mitchells and Butlers Ltd. The caption adds that all descriptions of social funstions ...
New Inns Public House
The New Inns is situated at 44 Holyhead Road and dates back in it's present form to 1798. Apart from being a publc house it also catered for banqueting and even had a ballroom. The original inn dated ...
New Inns, 42 Holyhead Road
A public house has been on this site at least since the 18th century. Parts of it were rebuilt in 1885 and 1901, and a banqueting hall, the Prince's Suite, was added on in Edwardian times.
Thomas Crockett ...
New Inns, Handsworth
New Inns, Holyhead Road, Handsworth, from a postcard
New student block at Lee Bank Island
This block is under construction on the island where Lee Bank Middleway meets Bristol Road/ Street. It is planned as accomodation for Birmingham University students. The England flag visible on the van ...
Ni' Night
On the ninth night after a death men gather at the deceased's house. They chant readings from the bible intentionally in a long drawn out incoherent way. If someone sounds too clear, they will stop ...
Nineveh Road
This photograph was taken with a zoom lens to highlight how the houses in Handsworth were squeezed together. This and the way that front doors just opened onto the street seemed very strange to newly ...
Nineveh Road
Nineveh Road, near the Junction with Soho Road. This is a view of Court Number One.
Nineveh, Handsworth
A group of cottages known as Nineveh, Handsworth. The present-day Nineveh Road takes its name from them.
Notes on evacuation from St Thomas's School logbook
These notes were written as Britain approached declaring war on Germany in September 1939.
28th August
Several members of the staff arrived at school at 7:15am for the rehearsals of evacuation of ...
Oak Cottage in Villa Road
Any information on Oak Cottage would be gratefully recieved by the Digital Handsworth Project.
Oak Hill Farm in Handsworth Wood
Oak Hill Farm probably stood near to Oak Hill House which lay between Church Lane and Handsworth Wood Road.
Off to work on a bike
Shay has started work and has a bike. Again in Mary Street, Shay poses on the opposite side of the road from 144, and a little further down the street (note- no bay windows). Behind Shay can be seen a ...
Official opening of Lee Bank Primary School
Princess Alexandra speaking at the official opening ceremony of Lee Bank Primary School. Second left in the picture is the Lord Mayor who at that time was Harold Edward Tyler.
Old and modern signs on Ladypool Road
The idea of advertising your business by painting on the wall has largely gone out of fasion due to modern alternatives in design. Here we see two surviving examples from different eras on the side of ...