Forward Hire Cars
Forward Hire were "always at your service" and only 8D per mile. The cars had a distinctive red and cream livery. They were located at Cambridge Street.
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
View of Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking eastwards towards the city centre. The building on the left is the Plough and Harrow Hotel, on the corner of Plough and Harrow Road. The view must date from around ...
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Hagley Road, Edgbaston, seen in postcard view in 1903. The location is the Ivy Bush, looking eastwards towards the city centre. However, the destination on the front of the bus reads 'New Street', an ...
Hamstead Road Toll-gate and Toll-house
The toll-gate and toll-house, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, at the Villa Road junction. A large lamp and the table of tolls are on the side of the house facing the gate, which stands wide open for a man ...
Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Hamstead Road, Handsworth, showing damage caused when a bus hit a lamp standard.
Handsworth Fire Brigade, Birchfield Road Station.
The brigade was originally formed in 1878. 1898 £2,200 was borrowed to erect a new fire station and buy better equipment. The Birchfield Road station was acclaimed as one of the most efficient in the ...
Handsworth Riots, 1985
Burnt out car on Lozells Road and corner of Lozells Street. Universal shoe store is visible behind the car.
Handsworth UDC Water Cart
These carts were used by the Urban District Council to clean the roads. Water was carried and dropped from the back of the cart. The road isn't named in the original caption. If anyone can identify it ...
Handsworth Wood bus outside the Mission Hall
The Mission Hall stood on Boulton Road. and was opened in 1908 by Wesleyan Methodists. The premises were eventually sold in 1921.
Hansom cab outside Laurels School
This photograph of a Hansom cab was taken outside the Laurels School at the corner of Handsworth Wood Road and Wood Lane.
The Laurels had been known as Hunts Green in the late eighteenth century. ...
Hazards of travelling on Trams
This cutting from the Birmimgham Times is drawing attention to the hazards faced by outside occupants of the Perry Barr and Lozells trams. A number of boys were hiding behind walls and throwing missiles ...
Highgate Rd Moseley Rd
The junction of Moseley Road and Highgate Road. The site of Joseph Chamberlain college is on the far right.
Hill Street and Navigation Street, Birmingham
The Midland Red bus in this city centre scene is turning into Hill Street, Birmingham, and heading towards Victoria Square. Navigation Street crosses from left to right. To the left is the premises of ...
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 ...
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.
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.