Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane, Handsworth. It was founded with a grant from the Bridge Trust and opened, as the Bridge Trust School, on 5th August 1862 with 59 pupils. The name was changed ...
Handsworth Grammar School for Boys, Grove Lane
Handsworth Grammar School opened as the Bridge Trust School on 5th August 1862. The original building cost £2,300 and consisted of one large schoolroom, two smaller classrooms, a cloakroom, a porch and ...
Handsworth Grammar School, Handsworth
Handsworth Grammar School, Grove Lane, Handsworth. Opened as the Bridge Trust School in 1862, it became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Hall
Lithograph by T Underwood, Birmingham.
Handsworth Hall was situated in extensive grounds covering the area of Villa Road, Rose Hill, Crick Lane and Broughton Road. The site of the actual house was at ...
Handsworth Library
Undated photograph of the library probably taken sometime in the 1990's. The library is one of the oldest buildings standing on the Soho Road.
Handsworth Library
The Librarian's Room at Handsworth Library. 1913. The library was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and newspapers in the Reading Room. The first Annual Report in 1881 stated that the ...
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library and Council Buildings
One afternoon in October 2003
Handsworth Library on the Soho Road
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...
Handsworth Market
"Handsworth Market was usually bustling with stallholders and shoppers from varied cultural backgrounds. Selling everything from saris, sweet potatoes and reggae tapes, immediately after the disturbances ...
Handsworth Market, Soho Road
This once thriving and popular market is now closed. At the beginning of 2003 it lies derelict.
Handsworth Market, Wig Stall
Handsworth Old Town Hall
Dating from the fifteenth century this is a fine example of the "cruck" method of construction with oak trunks supporting the walls (clearly visible in the end wall here). The Hall was rebuilt in the ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall - Sites and Monuments Record
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane, some 100 yds below the Grove Tavern. It is of plain domestic architecture of the sixteenth century community of Handsworth, when it was a mere village. ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, and tenement, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
This painting shows the Old Town Hall as it appeared in 1840. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, ...