Sydney by Joseph Lycett
Joseph Lycett painted the Australian colony after he was transported there for forgery. Lycett eventually returned to England settling in Birmingham at Bath Row. He was again arrested for forging bank ...
Sykes's Timber and Saw Mill, Sheepcote Street
John Sykes established the business in 1862 trading from premises rented at one shilling a yard.Timber was imported and unloaded at the nearby railway wharf. The business kept going until 1966 when it ...
Taxing Times for Gladstone by Chris Upton
Mr Joseph Lloyd Phelps of Lee Crescent was idly looking through his morning post : bills from the coal merchant and grocer, note from his brother in law, subscription request from the local improvement ...
Terms for Footmen, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and liveries for Footmen at Soho House. Soho House the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was by this date the home of his widowed ...
Terms of agreement for Edward Vale, Coachman
This memorandum sets out the terms of agreement for Edward Vale the Coachman at Soho House. By this date Soho House was the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton and his young family.
Vale came to Soho ...
Terrace of thirty three storey houses with central carriage arch by John Phillp
It is likely that this pen and ink with watercolour elevation of terraced houses was drawn from imagination rather than life. It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by ...
The artist David Bomberg
David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. His family moved to London though when he was still an infant.
Bomberg returned to Birmingham ...
The Austins and elsewhere by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck
Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at The Austins. Elizabeth presented a bound volume of 28 of her watercolours to her son Ernest for Christmas in 1885. This gallery contains ...
The Austins' Pools
The former home of the Hasluck family stood on the site of what is now The Austins Estate. All that is left now are the pools which lay in the grounds of the house and are now situated in the middle of ...
The Austins Watercolour album
The inscription by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck in the album of watercolours she gave to her son Ernest on December 25th 1885. Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at the Austins. ...
The Bandstand in Edgbaston Reservoir
The bandstand, replete with band, playing by the side of the reservoir. By the side of the water is the Refreshments hut.
The Black Patch, Handsworth
Gypsies posing for the camera in their winter camp on the Black Patch, Handsworth. On the right, holding the horse, is the 'king' of the group, Esau Smith, who died in 1901. Standing at the back to the ...
The Boar's Head Inn, Perry Barr
Situated on Aldridge Road, Perry Barr; the Boar's Head Inn served the district from 1758 until it was demolished in 1936 and replaced by a new inn with the same name. Originally it was called the Gough ...
The Boars Head, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
This pub was named the Boar's Head after the Gough family coat of arms which shows a boars head. It was built in 1758 and demolished in 1936. The present Boar's Head is on a slightly different site.
This ...
The Boat House on Hockley Pool by John Phillp
This pen and wash drawing shows the boat house on Hockley or Soho Pool where the Boulton family boat was kept. Several other views of the boat and boat house by Phillp are available on this site. The ...
The Breakfast Room in Heathfield Hall
The picture is undated but probably dates from the time that Heathfield was occupied by the Pemberton Family. It was of course formerly the residence of James Watt.
Taken from the T.E. Pemberton album ...
The British Queen Public House
The British Queen stood at 52 Lee Bank Road. This would have been somewhere in front of Lee Crescent on the road. By 1960 number 52 was the business of Rowland Keen and Company - Gunmakers, and Bruce ...
The Danger of Tinned meats.
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail August 3rd 1893.This is a report following the inquest into the death of of a young girl who died as a result of eating rabbit from a damaged tin. The tinned ...