Crown Inn on corner of Cope Street and Springfield Street
Undated photograph of the Crown Inn but probably from the fifties or sixties.
Cuddeston Pool on the Cherry Orchard Estate
Cuddeston Pool was situated on the site of the present school in Cherry Orchard Road. Originally it was thought to have been a gravel pit, which had been filled by local springs and streams.
CURRYING FAVOUR?
Norma Green & Mohammed Ali tuck into 'The Edwina Curry" - a special meal to launch the opening of Joseph Chamberlain College's Enterprise Restaurant to promote healthy eating, May 1987. At that time Edwina ...
Custard Pie Wall 1987
Raising funds for a good cause and fun for, at least, some of the participants.
D. Ayre on Ellen Street
This was a groceries, provisions and general stores. Adverts in evidence include those for Twinings teas and coffees, Lyons tea, Typhoo tea, Park Drive cigarettes and Midland Counties ice cream. In the ...
D. Mason & Company Trade Advert
Mason & Company were Saddlery and Harness makers based at 141/142 Holloway Head. Their activity in the area would have been enhanced by the regular Horsefairs held near their premises. The advert dates ...
Dan Jones interview 1
Dan Jones was born in Handsworth in 1929, in a maternity home in Heathfield Road. He lived in Holyhead Road with his parents who were both deaf and mute, his father died when he was a child, so his mother ...
Dan Jones interview 2
Dan Jones was born in Handsworth in 1929. He went to St James's School and sang in the choir at St James's Church. He then moved to Wattville Road School, where his life became overshadowed by war. But ...
Dan Lawrence interview
Dan Lawrence was born in Jamaica in 1922 and came to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. At first he lived in rented asccomodation in Harborne and Edgbaston then moved to lodgings in Handsworth, ...
Danesbury Crescent, Kingstanding
Houses in Danesbury Crescent, off Hurlingham Road, Kingstanding, on the estate built by Birmingham City Council around 1930.
Danesbury Crescent, Kingstanding
Houses in Danesbury Crescent, off Hurlingham Road, Kingstanding, built by Birmingham's Public Works Department as part of the Kingstanding Estate development.
Danesbury Crescent, Kingstanding
Houses in Danesbury Crescent, Kingstanding, in 1931, built as part of Birmingham City Council's Kingstanding Estate development.
Darbyshire's
An advert for the business which was at 297 Monument Road. They were picture framers who also specialised in re-gilding frames. The advert is from the St Mark's Parish Magazine of 1907. Photographs were ...
Dares Brewery, Belgrave Road
The premises of Dares Brewery Limited in Belgrave Road. The site is now home to Birmingham Central Mosque on Belgrave Middleway,
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 ...
Darwin Street
Caption reads "The centre of the district for which the mission church is needed. There are crowded courts behind the houses". A wintry somewhat forlorn scene.
Darwin Street
Taken after the demolition as part of urban renewal of the area. The foreground lamp-post looks singularly forlorn.
Dave Barker, AJ Franklyn, Winston Francis, Jamaican Vocalists
"In the 1970/ 80's many reggae bands played the Santa Rosa club/Rialto, Handsworth. Dave Barker, half of Dave & Ansell Collins, had a No 1 British hit with 'Double Barrel'. AJ Franklyn and Winston Francis ...