'Gaynor'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd. Process: bromesko.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited ...
'Gaynor in Picture Hat'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Exhibition labels on reverse, include: 'The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain. Accepted and Hung at the Autumn Exhibition of Pictorial Photography, ...
'Gaynor in Profile'
Photograph by Ruth Handley.
Labels on reverse: ‘Derby Photographic Society. Accepted & Hung [at their] Annual Exhibition, 1948’ & ‘Exhibited at the London Salon of Photography, 1949’ & 'Sutton Coldfield ...
General Calthorpe outside Perry Hall
Perry Hall, Staffordshire. The Honorable General Somerset Calthorpe in Carriage.
The following is a biography of Calthorpe taken from the Handsworth Magazine in November 1899.
Lieutenant General ...
General Election 1918 - Handsworth Poll Results
The totals as listed in this cutting from the Birmingham Gazette of Monday 30th December 1918 are:
E.C. Maysey-Thompson (Coalition Unionist) 12,019
Norman Tiptaft (Independent) 4,697
Henry Joseph ...
General Election Poll Notice 1918
Poll notice for the 1918 General Election held on December 14th. This election was contested by three candidates for Handsworth:
Ernest Claude Meysey-Thompson (Coalition Unionist)
Norman Tiptaft ...
General Election Poster 1922 - The Current Situation
Independent candidate Norman Tiptaft here invites the voters to attend a rally at Canterbury Road Schools. Tiptaft had been a councillor for Handsworth since 1919, which he hoped might give him an advantage ...
General Election Results December 1918
Front page of the Birmingham Gazette reporting on the results of the first election held after the First World War. The Handsworth result is featured on the page within the wider context of what happened ...
General Elections in Handsworth
This exhibition features ephemera on the Handsworth candidates for some of the General Elections since 1918. All of this material is held by the Local Studies Department of Birmingham Central Library; ...
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley
George Albert Asbury's Shop, 55 Key Hill, Hockley 1906
George Dixon Grammar School, Edgbaston
George Dixon Grammar School, in City Road, Edgbaston, in an undated but obviously early photograph. The school had started in Oozells Street as the George Dixon Higher Grade School and moved to the City ...
George Hallett: Handsworth through Southern Eyes
George Hallett came to Handsworth in 1971 and 1972, when he was commissioned by the Times Educational Supplement to take photographs of the black community in the area. This gallery contains some of ...
George Lempriere and Kitty Kelly
Rare photograph of Lempriere and one of his aeronaut's Kitty Kelly. They are standing behind the deflated balloon.
Lempriere's aeronautical displays with balloons and parachutes attracted large crowds. ...
George Onions VC
George Onions won the Victoria Cross in the First World War with the Devonshire Regiment. He managed to take 247 German soldiers prisoner and bring them back to British lines, with the assistance of one ...
George Road ARP Shelter
The fuse box inside the underground shelter. The shelter has not been used since World War II but is still there underneath the George Road flats and retains some of the fixtures and fittings. The fuse ...
George Street West
This view is from the New Spring Street end of the road.
Gibson Road by Rosa Perrins
Gibson Road was named after James Watt - whose middle name was Gibson. This painting is by Rosa Perrins who came from Birmingham. Rosa painted rural scenes and exhibited 42 of them at the Royal Birmingham ...
Gibson Road Unitarian Church, Handsworth
Unitarian Church, Gibson Road, Handsworth, 1918. Erected in 1915, the church was meant to be a school building but was used for services until it was sold in 1957. The Unitarian congregation had been ...