Churchill outside the Council House
Winston Churchill acknowledging the cheers from the crowds in Victoria Square. Churchill made a tour of Birmingham following VE Day.
Cilla Black and David Warner
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967.
Cilla Black and David Warner at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. The bus is a number 9 to Quinton.
Cilla Black and David Warner at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. The bus is a 130.
Cilla Black filming at Five Ways
In 1967 the singer Cilla Black made her acting debut in the film "Work...Is A Four Letter Word". The Birmingham weekly paper called The Planet ran a feature on the filming which took place in and around ...
Cilla Black meets the public at Five Ways
Photographed for The Planet while filming at Five Ways for "Work Is A Four Letter Word" in 1967. With Cilla is her co-star David Warner.
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
One of the exhibits in Birmingham Art Gallery, from an early 20th-century postcard. This bronze statue of a praying boy is an example of the Victorian confidence in the educational value of casts - the ...
Class Photograph at St. Thomas's School
From the Pat Jones collection comes this typical school photograph. Pat can remember the following names:-
Back Row: 1st left is Beverley, 7th left is Linda Gaunt,8th left is Rita Frost, 9th left is ...
Cleve Terrace, Lee Bank
A view of Cleve Terrace, Lee Bank, looking towards Bath Row, near the junction with Wheeley's Lane. In the background, on Bath Row, can be seen part of the Queen's Hospital. Designating Lee Bank as one ...
Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers - Angela Maloney
Beautiful cloudy sky between the two "Sentinels" on Holloway Head.
Closing down at Bradshaws
Closeup view of the queue at the Bradshaw's closing down sales. This image is from the Evening Mail story also on this website but has been digitally enhanced here for clarity.
Clydesdale Tower, Holloway Head, Lee Bank
Clydesdale Tower is one of the two Sentinel Towers in Holloway Head, Lee Bank, overlooking Holloway Circus. The view is looking southward along Bristol Street, with the dome of the Catholic Church of ...
Coach trip to Weston Super Mare from Lee Bank
This picture dates from circa 1957 and shows a party of people from the Y Blocks getting ready to embark for Weston Super Mare. At this time the development in the area of Lee Bank was still very recent ...
Communication Row
Houses in a yard in Communication Row. The buildings in the background appear to be out of use, which may explain why the young lad has found such a precarious place to sit, but there are still plants ...
Communication Row
Today Communication Row features the Nautical Club and the back entrance to ITNet Ltd. Here 100 years earlier it features back to back housing of the type so common across the city centre. The turn around ...
Community centre under demolition (with film clip)
This digger demolished the whole Centre in about one hour! The area is part of the re-development undertaken by Crest Nicholson and Optima Community Association. the Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off ...
Construction in Lee Bank
View of new properties under construction by Crest Nicholson. This view is taken looking towards the four blocks on Lee Bank Middleway, from the balcony of the old Community Centre on Gaywood Croft.
Construction site in Lee Bank
Ground prepared for construction near the Middleway blocks. In the distance is Lee Bank Middleway and to the right is Wheeley's Lane.