Display on Stockwell improvement area, Handsworth
The Stockwell area was declared a general improvement area in 1974. This display panel records the area at the time. Use the zoomify function to look at the photographs in greater detail.
Dockers Calendar
Dockers Paint Factory was located on Rotton Park Street. Despite being bombed on 28th July 1942 it did not close - as this calendar for the year of 1943 demonstrates.
Dockers congratulations to Vivian Fuchs
Dockers' Paints took out this advert in the Evening Despatch congratulating Vivian Fuchs on his crossing of Antartica. Fuchs made use of Ferguson tractors for the journey - Dockers were responsible for ...
Dog And Duck on Holloway Head
The road into Birmingham from Five Ways was known as the "hollow way" due to the rutting of the cart tracks. As you approached the town down the hill you would see the Dog and Duck public house on the ...
Dog And Duck, Holloway Head
A drawing of the Dog And Duck Inn on Holloway Head in 1865. To the rear can be seen Chapman's Mill which gave the name to Windmill Street and Chapman's Passage. The Inn stood about where the garage is ...
Dog's head by John Phillp
This drawing of a spaniel's head by John Phillp may show Dash, the favourite dog of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809).
The image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours ...
Domesday Book entry for Handsworth
TRANSLATION:
"Drogo also holds 1 hide from William in Handsworth. Land for 2 ploughs. In lordship 1; 6 villagers with 4 smallholders have 2 ploughs. A mill at 2s; meadow, 2 acres; woodland half league ...
Domesday Book entry for Perry Barr
TRANSLATION:
"Drogo holds 3 hides from William in Perry (Barr). Land for 3 ploughs. In lordship 1 plough; 4 villagers and 3 smallholders. A mill at 16d; meadow, 4 acres; woodland 1 league long and ...
Don Hall, Shopkeeper on Ladypool Road
This letter was printed in the Heathan in February 1981
"Dear Editor,
You will no doubt be sorry to learn that I am giving up my business in Ladypool Road - a wrench after 15 years. I leave at the ...
Don Kinch / Aaron Mapp
"Members of Dark Movers Theatre Group, performed plays relating to the black experience in Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. Dark Movers were also responsible for organising workshops, tutorials and ...
Don Kinch, Aaron Mapp
"Members of the Dark Movers Theatre Group rehearsing at a school hall in Handsworth. Don Kinch was director of the group and Aaron Mapp was an actor. At the time of writing Don is still directing and ...
Don Shaw, Lenny Henry, Carol Pemberton, Bob Ramdhanie
"Don Shaw (Macro Films), Lenny Henry (Comedian / Actor), Carol Pemberton (Black Voices), Bob Ramdhanie (Black Voices Manager / Arts Activist / Broadcaster). We attended Reggae Sunsplash, London in 1987l. ...
Donald McIntosh - Outfitter
Donald McIntosh traded from 130 Soho Road next to the Frighted Horse Public House.
This advert is taken from the programme for the Saint James' Church Fancy Fair held at the New Inns Assembly Rooms November ...
Double bill at The Bristol
Advert from The Birmingham Despatch of 24th January 1958. This "Horror" double bill was apparently not for the nervous! Frankenstein came out in 1931 and was directed by James Whale. Horror film legend ...
Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary visits Handsworth Riots.
"One of the problems with Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary visiting Handsworth was that it created more tensions. The news spread like wildfire and within minutes the whole area was swollen with bodies..it ...
Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary, Handsworth Disturbances
"Many politicians like Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary visited Handsworth during the disturbances. Tensions were running high, a lot of people asked the question "why does it take something like this to ...
Douglas Road in the blitz
Rear of Douglas Road, Handsworth, 2 November 1940. The crater from the bomb's explosion is clearly visible in the foreground. The backs of the nearby houses have been nearly demolished from the blast.
Dr Robert Dunstan - Ladywood politician
Robert Dunstan stood for the Labour Party in Ladywood at the 1923 General Election where he managed to reduce the sitting Conservative MP Neville Chamberlain's majority to 1,554. He became disillusioned ...