EJ Thacker and Company: Plumbers, Gasfitters
Thackers were based on Hamstead Road. The pillar in the foreground is reputed to be from Norwood House.
Elderly Luncheon Club
Weekly Meeting at the Community Office.
Elderly People's Luncheon Club
MVCA operated a luncheon club for Vietnamese elders until 2002. The luncheon club was an important meeting point for many members of the community to come together, socialise and eat.
Elderly People's Luncheon Club
Preparing the food for the elderly people's luncheon club. This club was organised by the MVCA until 2002. It provided an important meeting place for elder members of the Vietnamese community.
Elderly People's Luncheon Club
Preparing the food for the elderly people's luncheon club. This club was organised by the MVCA until 2002. It provided an important meeting point for elders in the Vietnamese community.
Election Address List for Norman Tiptaft 1918
Tiptaft was the Independent candidate for the 1918 General Election. This poster was used to promote his list of meetings in Handsworth in the run up to the election. Tiptaft appeared at:
Kynoch's ...
Election card for Neville Chamberlain
A "thank you" card sent out on behalf of Neville Chamberlain to his supporters in the General Election of 15th November 1922. Chamberlain was returned as MP for Ladywood beating Dr R. Dunstan of the Labour ...
Election in Edgbaston
This card was delivered to addresses in Eardley-Wilmot's constituency to drum up votes for the election. the card was sent to the then City Librarian H. Pearson. The polling station was at the junction ...
Election notice for Henry Joseph Odell
Odell was the Labour candidate for the December 1918 General Election. Odell lived and worked in Handsworth; he was a button maker and lived at 66 Whitehall Road.
Electric Trams
This letter to the Mail from 'Birchfield' complains of the confusion arising from the electrification of tramlines. Aston, Birmingham and Handsworth all electrified their lines at different times leading ...
Eliza Tedstone - Ladywood's oldest resident
This interesting story is from the Birmingham Gazette. They paid five guineas to Mrs Tedstone as their oldest reader! The story contains some interesting details about her birth at Condover in 1815 and ...
Elizabeth McKeon remembers by Jim Fitzpatrick
Our large Irish family moved from Stratford Road Sparkbrook to Mary Street Balsall Heath in 1949.
Early memories are of trams running down Mary Street, the milkman delivering by horse and cart, and us ...
Ellen Street, Ladywood
Ellen Street, Ladywood, photographed on 12 December 1941. Enemy action had caused considerable damage to the Great Western Railway bonded warehouse in the background.
Ellis Street, Lee Bank
An impressive pedimented doorway in Ellis Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 27th June 1957 when demolition was clearly not far off. To judge from the slope of the pavement this building was on the west ...
Elsie Price on Anderton Street
Elsie Price outside her shop at 29 Anderton Street in 1956. The shopfront includes familiar adverts for Walls Ice Cream and Park Drive cigarettes. A favourite of mine is the Beech Nut chewing gum machine ...
Elvetham Road
This view of Elvetham Road is from the junction with Pakenham Road looking up the hill. The church at the top right is St James's Church which is situated at the corner of Elvetham and St James's Road. ...
Emvee furniture by Morgan and Viggers
Sales of furniture by Morgan & Viggers Ltd, of 81, 83, 85 Soho Road. The premises would have been roughly halfway between the junctions of Piers Road and Holliday Road. The shop sold period furniture, ...
Engraving - Soho, Staffordshire
A view of Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory engraved and published by J Walker in "The Itinerant: A select collection of interesting and picturesque views, in Great Britain and Ireland". The inscription ...