Aerial view of the Palais De Danse
The Palais De Danse was located on Monument Road in Ladywood. It was a place which held happy memories for thousands of Ladywood residents over the decades.
Aerial view of Woodview
This rare aerial view is from 1967. The tall tower block at the middle top of the photograph is Haddon Tower. To the right of it is St Luke's Church on Bristol Street. Following the road down from St ...
Aerial view towards Lee Bank and Bristol Street
At the bottom of the view is the Benmore Estate with the Woodview area to the left. Above Woodview to the middle left is Lee Bank - the new park area and Y Block flats being instantly recognisable.
African Caribbean Bookshop, Handsworth
The Harriet Tubman Bookshop on Grove Lane
African Liberation Day, 1977
African Liberation Day demonstration 1977
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page one)
This Agreement made on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety one between the Reverend Frank Scott Webster MA, John Walford Lea and Edward King Mason on behalf of the managers of ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page two)
...regularly and punctually make such returns as may from time to time be required.
4. The said Managers agree to pay the said Teacher a salary of one hundred and thirty pounds per annum payable by ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Robert Birch
The agreement drawn up to appoint Harry Birch as headmaster of St Thomas's School. The document was amended on November 13th 1903 to account for out of school activities.
Birch was living in Park Street, ...
Air-raid shelter at Parker, Winder & Achurch, Broad Street
An air-raid shelter on sale at Parker, Winder & Achurch Ltd. in Broad Street, Birmingham. This is an Anderson shelter, made of corrugated iron and meant to be erected in a hole with plenty of earth all ...
Airship design for Lieutenant Lempriere
Printed postcard, with illustration of an air ship called 'America', with address printed to side '466 5th Ave., Brooklyn, New York'. On reverse, written in hand, 'With Compliments of the inventor, to ...
Albert Edward Heaton
Albert Heaton was the Vicar of St Luke's Church in Bristol Street from 1909 to 1926.
Albert Road, Handsworth
Albert Road in Handsworth on the morning of February 13th 1941 after a night-time Luftwaffe raid. Handsworth was targetted extensively during the blitz because of its factories.
Albert Road, Handsworth
Back view of houses in Albert Road Handsworth - taken again on the morning of February 13th 1941. Although the blitz was aimed at industrial targets there was also considerable damage to residential areas ...
Albion Picture Palace
The Albion Picture Palace at Holyhead Road opened on December 16th 1915, managed by Harry Calver. The first film shown was "Salambo". It eventually closed on September 24th 1960. This set of plans is ...
Alderman F.C. Clayton, Mayor of Birmingham
Francis Corder Clayton was born in Kelvedon, Essex, in 1843 and came to Birmingham as a young man to work in the chemical manufacturing industry for J. & E. Sturge in Wheeley's Lane. In the 1881 Census ...
Aldridge Road, Kingstanding
Aldridge Road, Kingstanding, seen in April 1928
Aldridge Road, Kingstanding
Aldridge Road, Kingstanding, at the junction with Shady Lane (on the right) in April 1928
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
The newly constructed bridge carrying Aldridge Road over the River Tame at Perry Barr in 1932. To the left is the old Zig Zag Bridge which it replaced and which from this date was to be used only by pedestrians....