Hunters Vale Blitz damage
German air-raids targetted the industrial buildings of Handsworth in WW2. Most of the photographs taken by the Public Works Department are of damage to domestic buildings so this is a rare example of ...
Hunters Vale in the Blitz
Work in progress clearing the rubble from the air-raid. In the foreground is a small pile of belongings someone has salvaged including the ever resilient tin bath.
Hurchinson's Baby Car Manufacturer
Hutchinson's stood next to the Library at 100 Soho Road. The advert describes them branching out from "baby car manufacture" into the production of cabinets and upholstery.
Advert taken from the programme ...
Hyde Arms
At the junction of Hyde Road and Clark Street.
"When I was at school Mr Pitty was the landlord. On the Clark Street side you used to have to go down some steps as it was on a hill. Next to the Hyde ...
Hyde Road, Ladywood
The Hyde Arms at 80 Hyde Road, Ladywood. The photograph was taken in 1968, when the area was evidently in a poor way. The pub does not seem in too bad a state itself but one wonders what sort of trade ...
Icknield Street
View of Icknield Street in the nineteen fifties. To the left is Spring Hill Library, a fine redbrick Victorian structure still there to this day. The shops have now long gone but they include Walter Smith ...
Icknield Street (part 2) and Icknield Port Road (Part 1) in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
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Icknield Street part 1 in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
First part of the entry for Icknield Street. Also included on this page are entries for Hurst Street (part of), Hutton Road, Hyde Road, Hylda Road, Hylton Street, Icknield Square.
Icknield Street part 3 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following streets: Idbury Road, Ilmington Road, Ilsley Road, Imperial Road, Inchcape Avenue, Inge Street, Ingestre Road, Ingleby Street, Ingleton Road, Inkerman Street.
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Icknield Street railway bridge
The bridge was at the junction of Icknield Street and Pitsford Street. The bridge has since been replaced and now carries the Metro en route between Snow Hill and Wolverhampton. To the right is an advert ...
Icknield Street School, Ladywood
Inside Icknield Street School, Ladywood. The school opened as Icknield Street Board School in 1883 and became a Secondary Modern school in 1945.
Ideal Home Exhibition at Bingley Hall
Cartoons by Larry in the Evening Mail which capture the Ideal Home Exhibition as remembered by many Brummies. This used to be at Bingley Hall off Broad Street and featured all the latest timsesaving gadgets ...
Imperial Cinema Advert
The Imperial was one of the earliest cinemas in Birmingham. It was built, in 1914, by Harry Grigg,who owned the pork butchers shop next door. Although the nature of the films shown changed over the years ...
Imran Enterprises on Ladypool Road
Greengrocers and general supplies. This is near to the junction with Studley Street. The row of shops here were originally the Birmingham Co-Operative Society.
In Memoriam by Raymond Mason
The painting came about as a consequence of Mason's return to Birmingham when his mother had passed away. The area of his youth was itself now "dying" too, bulldozers moving in to demolish the old housing ...
In the Stocks at the 1980 Carnival
"Tony (Stokes) and I thought we would have a cool-off because it was a nice hot day and so we went in the stocks. Not known to us was someone has gone in The Railway (Clifton Road) and told people we ...
Inside the Colwyn?
An image from the Lewis Green collection. We believe this is the lounge of the Colwyn Pub on Great Colmore Street, but we don't know who the people are. If you know please drop us a line at cs@optima.org.uk...
Inside The Woodman
Two customers enjoying a drink at The Woodman in Cregoe Street. The pub has since been demolished as part of the urban renewal of the area. Helen White notes that: "The lady, who is my aunt, is Mrs Barbara ...