F.H. Simms - Family Grocer
An advert for the shop which, as the advert says, was at 29 Monument Road. As well as being a grocer it supplied tea and other provisions.
F.H. Weller Culinary Service
An advertisement for "Culinary Service" by F. H. Weller of 113, Holyhead Road.
Publicising products such as bottled and canned english peas, beetroot, split peas, lentils and fruits. Frank Henry Weller ...
F.W. Smallwood - Chemists on Grove Lane
Smallwood the chemists was located at 141 Grove Lane. They traded in the early part of the twentieth century. This bottle of "stomachic mixture" is on display at the Handsworth Historical Society.
Factory Road
This photograph was taken from the bottom of St Michaels Hill. The road to the right is Newton Place and that on the left is Factory Road showing the factory building of C.W.Cheney & Son Ltd., manufacturers ...
Fantastic Balsall Heath
This banner was made for the 1994 carnival but was a regular feature of several other carnivals after that.
Fantastic Balsall Heath Banner 2001
The "Fantastic Balsall Heath" Banner 7 years on.
Farm Cottages, Wood Lane
Undated photograph but most of the pictures in the original date from circa the 1960s.
Farm in Wood Lane
Oil painting by John Joseph Hughes. Hughes, who lived at Villa Road in Handsworth, was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited at galleries in London and Birmingham. Between 1862 - 1908 he exhibited ...
Farnham Road
One afternoon in October 2003.
Farrier in Handsworth
Sadly the original image doesn't say where it is from but the Handsworth Historical Society beiieve it to be from Handsworth. It is probably early twentieth century in date.
Fatal Prize Fight
A newscutting from the Mercury of 6 June 1891 quoting Aris's Birmingham Gazette from 100 years before. It recounts two prizefights which took place at Kingstanding resulting in the death of two men.
From ...
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 Joseph V. Hymers - St. Catherine of Siena
Father Hymers took over at St Catherine's after the death of Father Fenn. This was not immediate as Dr. E. Berry succeeded Father Fenn first but left in February 1908 after only a few months. Apart from ...
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 ...
Faulkes Furriers
Faulkes Furriers stood near Five Ways on Calthorpe Road not far from the statue of Joseph Sturge.
FCF Nightclub
It is owned by Faith & Confidence Business Agency formerly Faith and Confidence Finance Ltd. Hence the name FCF. The club opened in September 1971. Membership was £2.00 for the year then; a proposed member ...
Feast of Tabernacles at Singers Hill Synagogue 1915
This picture, from Picture World newspaper, shows the congregation gathered around the Succoth.
Feast of Tabernacles at Singers Hill Synagogue in 1915
The minister and helpers. The Reverend J. Finck in the centre with, to his right, the Reverend B. Alperowitz and, to his left, the Reverend and Mrs A. Cohen. Services were conducted each day during the ...