Holyhead Road, Handsworth
Holyhead Road, Handsworth. The photograph was taken on 13th August 1942 and features the premises of William Protheroe Ltd, monumental sculptors.
Holyhead School, Handsworth
"Members of the hockey team take a break from practising, Holyhead School in Handsworth, Birmingham." Pogus Caesar, February 2003.
Home in Mary Street
Shay Bartley, Andy’s younger brother poses with the Ford Zodiac parked outside the small factory, known as the ‘Locstitch`, just a few doors down from the Bartley’s home in Mary Street. Note the two-tone ...
Homestead - Canada
Homestead of Mr and Mrs Fred P both ex-Middlemore Homes Children. John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable ...
Hope Street
View of Hope Street looking towards the twin tower blocks of Cleveland and Clydesdale Tower in the middle distance. The most notable establishment on Hope Street is the Birmingham School of Chiropody ...
Horse drawn passenger bus
These commenced in 1873 from Birmingham Colmore Row to Handsworth. This is the Brownes Green Three Horse Bus which ran every hour to and from Birmingham.
Horse Fair at the Horsefair
Up into the early years of the twentieth century there used to be a horse fair held in Brick Kiln Lane. The Lane was renamed as the HorseFair in memory of the event. This is a rare picture of the event ...
Horsedrawn carriage on Selborne Road
The photograph is thought to date from about 1903. Selborne Road's most notable resident was the local councillor Edward Fricker Freeland.
Horse-drawn omnibus in St Vincent Street, Ladywood
This small horse-drawn 'family omnibus', as the caption on the original postcard calls it, was photographed in St Vincent Street, Ladywood, presumably around 1900. It belonged to the London & North Western ...
Horsefair in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Use the zoomify button and plug in to read the page clearly. As well as The Horsefair this page also includes the following Birmingham streets:
Homer Street, Hooper Street, Hope Street, Hornsey Road, ...
Horsefair Mosiac
This colorful mural, executed in mosaics in 1966, measures about 30 yards long by twelve feet high, and depicts the Horse Fair that took place on the spot every year until 1911.
This is a closeup detail ...
Horsefair Shops in 1979
The top floor frontages are the same as today giving away their Victorian origins. The shops themselves though have changed since but at the time they were: Horsefair Fish and Chips, Ted Rodgers Bookmakers, ...
Horsefair, Bristol Street
The west side of Horsefair, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken on 4 December 1950. The large industrial building belonged to F.A. Patterson Ltd, who were manufacturers of leather goods. The road on the ...
House Front, Handsworth
This photograph was taken by Vanley because it was intriguing what people will do in an area where all the buildings look the same to make their home look a little bit different. The owner of this house ...
House of the Baskervilles by Chris Upton
A riot, a back garden burial,the deepest canal in Birmingham, a giant dog with luminous eyes. The company that has just bought Baskerville House has also taken over an awful lot of history. The dog we ...
Houses in Balsall Heath Road
Keith Whitehouse's family had to leave No 271 Balsall Heath Rd in 1968 because of the clearance. Keith says, “My memories of the house and Balsall heath are fantastic and at the time I didn’t want to ...
Houses in Holyhead Road, Handsworth
Old houses in Holyhead Road, Handsworth, at the corner of Crocketts Road. 1906.