Ledsam Street in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following road on this page: Lea Hill Road, Lea House Road, Leach Street, Leach Green Lane, Leamington Road, Lease Lane, Leasowes Road, Leavesdon Grove.
Ledsam Street and Lee Bank Road in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following road: Lee Crescent, Lee Mount, Leek Street, Lees Street, Legge Lane, Legge Street.
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Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy
"Head-master White distributes the prizes". This satirical cartoon is from The Dart and comments on the giving out of awards to the police following the arrest of those accused. The press seemed to take ...
Ledsam Street in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
Also includes the following roads: Lea Hill Road, Lea House Road, Leach Street, Leach Green Lane, Leamington Road, Lease Lane, Leasowes Road, Leavesdon Grove.
Part two of Ledsam Street is on another ...
Lee Bank
The picture was taken at the corner of Rickman Drive and Grant Street in 1999. The foreground area, looking for all the world like a bombsite, is in fact a washing area. It was conditions such as this ...
Lee Bank As I Remember It by Bernard Allen
Bernard Allen is a former resident of the Lee Bank/ Edgbaston area. These are his memories of the area he grew up in.
The picture here is of Mr Allen at work in Freeman and Ward on Cregoe Street.
Lee Bank Development Area
An interesting view taken before work started on the central park area. To the right is Avon House. to the left is the lower half of Cregoe Street which subsequently vanished under the new park. In the ...
Lee Bank Playing Fields
The Lee Bank playing fields are now disused and awaiting redevelopment. In the foreground is the old running track and behind it is the long jump. In the distance is the spire of St Thomas's Church which ...
Lee Bank Redevelopment Plan
The original architect's view of the Lee Bank redevelopment. The tower blocks are as follows: Hogarth, Faraday, Chiswick and Audleigh House are the four blocks running up the left hand side on Lee Bank ...
Lee Bank Road
This view of Lee Bank Road is the section coming up to the junction with Lee Mount. Today Lee Bank Road is of course Lee Bank Middleway. The number 8 bus still runs up this road but the shops and houses ...
Lee Bank Road
This view of Lee Bank Road is probably at the "top end" approaching Islington Row. The wall just visible to the left is possibly the railway bridge which would make Wheeley's Lane the turn off just visible ...
Lee Bank Road
Undated photograph of Lee Bank Road - now known as Lee Bank Middleway. The garage on the far side of the road is Prestons of Birmingham. In the near foreground is one of the old corporation bus stops, ...
Lee Bank Road
Taken during the urban renewal of Lee Bank, at this time still known as Edgbaston B15. The road was widened and is now Lee Bank Middleway.
Lee Bank Road
This view was taken in the 1950's. There is no date listed other than that but there is the intriguing information that the picture was taken through a bus window. It had been involved in an accident ...
Lee Bank Road and Ryland Road, Lee Bank
At the junction of Lee Bank Road and Ryland Road, Lee Bank, stands Hall's Grocery. This photograph of an entirely deserted street scene dates from around 1958 to 1960. Ryland Road is heading off to the ...
Lee Bank Road, Lee Bank
A view of Lee Bank Road, Lee Bank, with redevelopment under way. The area was eight years into a massive programme of demolition and redevelopment when this photograph was taken on 26 July 1960. Grassy ...
Lee Bank Secondary School
The former Lee Bank Secondary School located just off Bell Barn Road. The site is now (2005) in use as the E.R. Mason Centre and James Brindley School. Rising in the middle distance is Haddon Tower standing ...
Lee Bank Sign
The old Lee Bank sign which was located on Holliday Street near the junction with Granville Street.