Communication Row
Today Communication Row features the Nautical Club and the back entrance to ITNet Ltd. Here 100 years earlier it features back to back housing of the type so common across the city centre. The turn around ...
Communication Row
Houses in a yard in Communication Row. The buildings in the background appear to be out of use, which may explain why the young lad has found such a precarious place to sit, but there are still plants ...
Communities in Handsworth after 1945
Text: Malcolm Dick and Rajinder K Dudrah
Sections
1. Handsworth Today
2. Handsworth and the Soho Road
3. 1945-1970
4. 1970-1985
5. 1985
6. After 1985
7. The Multicultural Soho Road
8. The ...
Community centre under demolition (with film clip)
This digger demolished the whole Centre in about one hour! The area is part of the re-development undertaken by Crest Nicholson and Optima Community Association. the Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off ...
Computer Class
Classes on many different subjects are held in the MVCA offices in Charleville Road, in this picture a computer class is being held.
Congregational Chapel, Union Row, Handsworth
Congregational Chapel, Union Row, Handsworth. This photograph was taken in 1870. The chapel was remodelled and expanded by the pastor in residence a year after this image was recorded. The Rev. Robert ...
Congregational Church of Sparkbrook on Ladypool Road
The church was opened in 1894 as the Congregational Mission Church. The middle front of the building is now a shop.
Congregational Church, Soho Hill
Built in 1892 and was the home of the Soho Men's Movement
Construction in Lee Bank
View of new properties under construction by Crest Nicholson. This view is taken looking towards the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway, from the balcony of the old Community Centre on Gaywood Croft.
Construction site in Lee Bank
Ground prepared for construction near the Middleway blocks. In the distance is Lee Bank Middleway and to the right is Wheeley's Lane.
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 ...
Conversation
Four youths in conversation somewhere near to Hogarth House. Lewis Green was very interested in capturing people going about their daily business.
Conybere Street
Carol Arnall's book “Birmingham Girls” recalls her life growing up in the area.
"My sister Pauline and I lived in Coneybere Street, Balsall Heath, with our mom during the mid to late 1940s - up the ...
Conybere Street celebrations
Decorations for the coronation in 1902 of Edward VII. This coronation had been postponed once due to the King's illness.
Cooks at Work
Cooks at work in a restaurant. One of the cooks is called Terry. This was one of the first Caribbean restaurants in Handsworth. It was near the corner of Soho Road and Holliday Road
Cope Street
Cope Street on a sunny day in June 1956.
Cope Street
View of Cope Street from the junction with Springfield Street
Copy of arbitration award concerning trespass on land in Handsworth [1st page]
First page of a copy of arbitration award of Richard Gresley of Kenilworth, co. War., esq., in a cause between William Smith of Handsworth, victualler, plaintiff and Henry Pyddocke Whately of Handsworth, ...