Edgbaston Tavern
The Edgbaston Tavern at 85 & 86 Lee Bank Road, Lee Bank. Redevelopment after World War II has completely changed this area, and Lee Bank Road has been absorbed into Lee Bank Middleway.
ER Mason Youth Centre - March 2005 newsletter
Page two of the newsletter updating on centre times, recent and future events. The Lee Bank area is the subject of major urban renewal, and the youth centre is in the process of relocating to a temporary ...
Ernest Street, Lee Bank
View looking up Ernest Street from Holloway Head, Lee Bank. The cars tend to confirm the date of the photograph, which is 8th February 1965. To the left are apparently the backs of buildings in Exeter ...
Ernest Street, Lee Bank
Industrial buildings in Ernest Street, Lee Bank, off the south side of Holloway Head. The photograph, taken on 11th January 1965, shows on the left the factory of William Garfield Ltd, listed as tinplate ...
Exeter Passage off Holloway Head, Ladywood
Exeter Passage photographed by Public Works in 1968. The road is still there today, albeit only just, as it is one of the last parts of the Lee Bank area to closely resemble a world war two bombsite. ...
Father Christmas comes to Lewis's
Advert printed in the Birmingham Evening Mail. Every year Lewis's Department Store in Birmingham City Centre would welcome Father Christmas. His arrival at the Grotto was preceded by a tour across Birmingham. ...
Father Patrick Maguire - St Catherine of Siena
Father Maguire came to St Catherine's from Tile Hill in Coventry during October 1961. Father Maguire oversaw the move from the old St Catherine's to the new building which stands to this day. He also ...
Flooding at Woodview
Picture from the Evening Mail of the floods around the Nightingale/ Brambling Walk area. The Headteacher of Lee Bank Primary School recorded his thoughts on the incident, which are also on the website. ...
Frederick Wilkes - Greengrocer
A portrait of Frederick William Wilkes, greengrocer of Lee Bank. In the 1901 Birmingham directory F.W. Wilkes makes his first appearance trading at 123 Great Colmore Street and for a short time afterwards ...
Freeman And Ward next to the Doctors on Cregoe Street
There were many small factories in the back streets, manufacturing a large variety of products. I started work at 14 years of age in one of these in Cregoe Street. This was Freeman and Ward, which made ...
From Lansdowne House to Lytham Croft
This image was taken by Olive Dowdeswell from her balcony at Lansdowne House on Great Colmore Street. Lansdowne was part of the Bath Row Development - later to be named Lee Bank. this redevelopment took ...
From the balcony of Nash House
The Queen Mother waves to the crowd below during her official visit to see the "Bath Row Development". She toured Nash House - one of the "Y Blocks" on Great Colmore Street. Also with her on the balcony ...
Gala Cinema
The Gala Cinema in 1979. Showing is "Flesh Gordon" with "Shivers" on the following week. It had been open as The Gala since 1977 but will always be best remembered as The Broadway and to a lesser extent ...
Gala Cinema, Bristol Street, Lee Bank
When the photograph was taken in around 1980 this cinema in Bristol Street, Lee Bank, was called the Gala Cinema but this was only one of several names it had over the years. The original building having ...
Girls Talk
Photographed on the grass on Lee Bank Road.
Goodbye E.R. Mason
Taken moments before the the demolition of the youth club. The club had stood for decades just off Cregoe Street but was demolished this year as part of the urban regeneration of Lee Bank. Poignantly ...
Grand Junction Public House at 180 Great Colmore Street
The Grand Junction stood right at the corner with Bell Barn Road. Looking across here into the distance is Elvetham Road with a newsagents just visible. A "Park Drive" cigarette advert can be seen on ...
Grand Junction, Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
The Grand Junction public house was at 180 Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, where it joins Bell Barn Road. The acute angle of the junction makes for a building of unusual shape, with an unusual name. This ...