Pooley's Cotton Mill
Drawing of the parallel motion, February 1798.
This was a typical 'sun & planet' engine for a cotton mill. It was ordered by John Pooley and his partners for their cotton mill in Hulme, South Manchester ...
Portion of imcomplete Rotary Engines by James Watt
Watt was born on January 19, 1736, in Greenock, Scotland. He worked as a mathematical-instrument maker from the age of 19 and soon became interested in improving the steam engines, which were used at ...
Portrait
This picture was taken in Walsall. This photograph was taken as part of an exhibition commissioned by Walsall Youth Forum for Caribbean Focus. These photographs are kept in Walsall Library Local Studies ...
Portrait of Carey
This is a photgraph of Vanley's son Carey. The defiant image of the boy contrasts with the racist graffitti in the background.
Portrait photograph of lady parachutist
This lady was one of the parachutists employed by Handsworth aeronaut Lieutenant Lempriere. Lempriere conducted balloon ascents and descents at many events all over the United Kingdom. The portrait may ...
Poster in Oxhill Road
"Harp - The Cool Blonde Lager" poster seen on Oxhill Road.
Preacher on Soho Hill
Outside the building popularly known as FCF.
Prepared - The Birmingham ARP Journal
Front cover of the Birmingham ARP Journal from April 1939. This is five months before Britain and France declared war on Germany but the cover image is very evocative of the Blitz. Handsworth was heavily ...
Prepared: Handsworth in the Blitz
Handsworth endured heavy bombing during the Second World War due to its large number of munitions factories. Due to close proximity the local housing also suffered and the cycle of nighttime raids and ...
Prince Charles visiting the Post 16 Centre
The Saint George's Post 16 Centre was opened in Newtown, Birmingham by Prince Charles. It was opened to provide a place for Post 16 adults to train and learn new skills. Mrs McGhie was involved in setting ...
Prize fight at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette, which gives details of a hearing at the West Bromwich police court for the offence of prize fighting.
A police constable Raven had come across the accused,Issac ...
Prize Fight at Handsworth
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 21st June 1890.
A short article giving an account of a prize fight that took place in a field near to where the G.W.R and L. and N.W.R. railway lines ...
Produce from the Allotment
Selling produce from the back of a car in Handsworth
Purus Bakeries
Purus Bakeries traded on Rookery Road at numbers 261 to 267 inclusive. The advert is interesting as it employs an approach a little beyond the norm for the times of merely listing products and services. ...
Putrid Rabbits for Sale
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 2nd January 1897.
This cutting details the case brought against 2 shopkeepers on the Soho Road for selling skinned rabbits that where unfit for human ...
Queen Henty, Handsworth
Queen Henty, queen of the gypsies who camped on the Black Patch, Handsworth, for many years. All but the oldest were turned off in 1905, although Queen Henty and a few of the older residents were allowed ...
Quitclaim of lands with appurtenances in the town and fields of Handsworth
Quitclaim from William Segewycke of Birmingham, Henry Segewycke, son of the said William, Richard Swyft, Henry Shelton, William Colmore the younger and John Wyat, to Edward Warner, Robert Myddulmore, ...
Quitclaim of messuages and lands in Handsworth
Quitclaim from Edmund Brudenell, son and heir of Thomas Brudenell of Thistleton, co. Rutland, gent., and Anne, his late wife, daughter and coheir of Thomas Warner of Wedligborow [Wellingborough co. Northampton], ...