Churchill outside the Council House
Winston Churchill acknowledging the cheers from the crowds in Victoria Square. Churchill made a tour of Birmingham following VE Day.
Clark Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Clarence Road, Clarendon Road, Clarendon Street, Claverdon Street, Clay Lane, Claybrook Street, Clayton Road, Cleeve Road, Clement Street
Clearing up in Clifford Street
Clearing up the rubble in Clifford Street on the 13th August 1942. Most air raids took place at night and this would have been an almost daily duty for the local population at the height of the blitz.
Clevedon Road
Bomb damage in Clevedon Road, Balsall Heath during World war Two
Clifton Street
Clifton Street Balsall Heath. Bomb damage World War Two. The rear of Malvern street is in the distance. 1940
Code of Good Conduct in the ARP shelter under George Road
As you arrive in the first area from the entrance you see this notice hanging on the wall - the Code of Good Conduct. It reads as follows:
Public Shelters are provided for the use of members of the ...
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Handsworth
Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Hunters Road, Handsworth. Built to the designs of A.W. Pugin, St Mary’s Convent opened in 1841, a few months after St Chad’s Cathedral opened a mile down the road.
Benefactors ...
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.
A wartime poster issued by the Ministry of Health and the Central Council for Health Education.
The poster was designed to encourage people not to spread diseases so not to damage the war effort.
Court One, Ridley Street, Lee Bank
Court One, off Ridley Street, Lee Bank. The days of back-to-back housing were numbered when this photograph was taken in the late 1940s, but clearly these houses were still occupied at the time. Ridley ...
Cregoe Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also includes the following streets: Crantock Road, Crawford Avenue, Crawford Street, Crescent, The Crescent, Crescent Wharf, Creswell Road, Crick Lane and Crockett's Lane
Dares Brewery, Belgrave Road
Advert for Dares Ales. This is a black and white copy of the original colour advert. Dares were based on what is now the middleway. The mosque stands on what was the site today; the road now bears no ...
Dockers Calendar
Dockers Paint Factory was located on Rotton Park Street. Despite being bombed on 28th July 1942 it did not close - as this calendar for the year of 1943 demonstrates.
Douglas Road in the blitz
Rear of Douglas Road, Handsworth, 2 November 1940. The crater from the bomb's explosion is clearly visible in the foreground. The backs of the nearby houses have been nearly demolished from the blast.
E.M. Baker's hardware shop, Great Colmore Street
Mrs E.M. Baker's hardware and fancy goods shop was at 121 Great Colmore Street. According to directories she was only trading here for a few years in the early 1960s. Previously at this address was an ...
Edgbaston B15 at War by Chris Sutton
Apart from a few Zeppelin raids the UK had been largely untroubled at home during the First World War. In World War Two the "homefront" became part of the battleground for most of the main protagonists, ...
EJ Thacker and Company: Plumbers, Gasfitters
Thackers were based on Hamstead Road. The pillar in the foreground is reputed to be from Norwood House.
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.
Escape tunnel inside George Road ARP shelter
Access from room to room in the shelter could also be made via these tunnels in case the regular corridors were blocked. Note the supporting lintel over the entrance. The tunnel is only perhaps twenty ...