Davenport's Brewery, Bath Row, Lee Bank
Davenport's Brewery at 77 Bath Row, Lee Bank. Davenport's, a family brewing business, started in 1830 and John and Edward Davenport are first recorded in Bath Row in 1849. In 1987 Davenport's sold out ...
David Bomberg, Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunelling Company
Bomberg (1890-1957)was born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. In 1917, he was commissioned by the Canadian authorities to do a painting celebrating an operation in which the sappers successfully blew ...
David Cameron in Balsall Heath
David Cameron stayed for two days with Abdullah, a neighborhood warden. He spent the time in Balsall Heath learning about local initiatives and issues. Cameron visited many local shops and also St Paul's ...
David Foy - Dennis Road School
Official portrait of David who attended Dennis Road School in the 1950s. After leaving the school he went on to Bordesley Green Tech.This image was kindly donated by Mr Foy.
David Warner and Cilla Black
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967.
Davis West Indian Bakery - Soho Road
Text: Rajinder Kumar Dudrah
One does not have to venture far on the Soho Road to see the variety of colours, to smell the different aromas and to feel the textures of several fruit and vegetables, ...
Death Of A Librarian
from the Handsworth Herald, 23rd May, 1903
A mysterious Affair
'Shortly before five o'clock on Thursday evening the body of a respectably dressed man was found lying in Harborne Lane at Quinton, ...
Declaration of an estimate of the value of Rookery Farm
First page of declaration by R.H. Durman, land agent, auctioneer and surveyor, being an estimate of the value of the Rookery Farm, Handsworth, belonging to the Rev. E. Pyddoke.
Creation: c. 1890; ...
Declaration of an estimate of the value of Rookery Farm [second page]
Second page of declaration by R.H. Durman, land agent, auctioneer and surveyor, being an estimate of the value of the Rookery Farm, Handsworth, belonging to the Rev. E. Pyddoke.
Creation: c. 1890; ...
Defeasance from John Wyet of Sutton Coldfield, to John Wirley of Handsworth
Defeasance from John Wyet of Sutton Colfelde [Sutton Coldfield], husbondman, to John Wirley of Honesworth [Handsworth], yoman, of a bond of Statute Merchant from the said John Wirley to the said John ...
Delivering the statue
Des Berry the sculptor with the statue of Christ on it's way to being installed at Balsall Heath Church Centre on the corner of Edward Road Mary Street in 1980
Delroy Wilson, Jamaican Vocalist
"The late Delroy Wilson was one of Jamaica's finest vocalists. He started singing age 13 and his first recording was 'Joe Liges' for Studio I. He was a former member of reggae groups, The Gaylads and ...
Demolition of Roscoe Place, Church Vale. July 1969
Demolition of St Thomas's School on Granville Street
A picture to break the hearts of the many who went to this famous and much loved school. The school carried on at a new location on Great Colmore Street where it is to this day maintaining the fine traditions.The ...
Demolition of the Community Centre
The jaws of the digger as it moves in to "bite" another piece from the former Attwood Green Community Centre. The centre was demolished to make way for new developments in the Lee Bank area. Facilities ...
Demolition on Rickman Drive
The remains of Rickman Drive in process of demolition. Rickman Drive was part of the Lee Bank development - the state of disrepair of which led eventually to the latest redevelopment by Crest Nicholsona ...
Demonstration Against Racist Attacks, Soho Road
Denise Lewis, Athlete
"Denise Lewis was born in Wolverhampton, 1972. A member of the Alexander Stadium's Birchfield Harriers, she has become one of the most successful heptathletes in the world. In 1994 Lewis won gold at ...