Mary Street
This photo features Sonny seated on Andy’s rigid framed ex-WD bike, along with daughter May. Here we have a shot straight down the entry leading to their back entrance and yard. These ‘Entries` were, ...
Mary Street
Terraced housing on Mary Street featuring some stylish decorative brick work around the windows and doors.
Mary Street
Houses in Mary Street with distinctive balconies
Mary Street
The rear yard area of number 73 Mary Street. This was taken during the period of urban renewal when some were still living in housing which had been earmarked for demolition.
Mary Street Library
The corner of Mary Street and Strensham Road, Balsall Heath. The shop on the far left houses a circulating library which were in operation before the advent of Public Libraries.
Mary Street School
Mary Street School, which opened in 1878, was the first Board school to be built in Balsall Heath. It was renamed Belgrave School in the 1960s. The school closed in 1970, the buildings were demolished ...
Mary Street School Road Safety Certificate
Produced by the Birmingham Accident Prevention Council. This Certificate of Merit was awarded to Keith Whitehouse. It was signed by the Lord Mayor of the time, Ernest Walter Horton.
Mary Street School/ Belgrave Primary Staff
The staff of Mary Street / Belgrave Primary; Front row L to R; Jean Kent, unknown, unknown, Mr Mundy (Head), Mrs Wildebore (Deputy Head), unknown, Pauline Davis, and Mrs Elder.
“Mr Mundy was a helpful ...
Mary Street Schooldays
Keith Whitehouse (left) and sister Pamela (right) attended the ‘Girls’ Boys’ and 'Infants schools’ in Mary Street. Later the school came to be known as ‘Belgrave Primary’.
Keith was there between 1959 ...
Mary Street Tram Terminus
Elizabeth McKeon (nee Bartley)has fond memories of the street bonfires in Balsall Heath. "About a month before bonfire night we kids in the street collected the materials for a ‘street bonfire’. The ‘gang`, ...
Masonic Lodge on Severn Street
This grade A listed building stands opposite the Mailbox retail development. Prior to being a Lodge it was used as a Synagogue.
Matthew Boulton's Bedroom, Soho House
This room was used as a bedroom by Matthew Boulton (1728-1809. The photograph was taken by Birmingham photographers Lewis and Randall in 1927 when Soho House was a hotel. Soho House is now a museum ...
Matthew Boulton's house
Watercolour sketch of Matthew Boulton's Soho House, from a photograph circa 1840.
Matthew Murray: Wrestlers at Holyhead Leisure Centre
Matthew Murray - text by Addie Vassie at hug, Amsterdam
Matthew’s images are universal in their insight and unintentionally have a tendency to make the viewer smile, by essentially capturing ...
Mavis Bartlett at the back of the Edgbaston Hotel
This pub was at the corner of Lee Bank Road and Ryland Road. Mavis was the daughter of the then licensee Len Bartlett.
Mayor James Crump
James Crump was Lord Mayor of Birmingham from 1938 - 1939. He lived at 235 Great Colmore Street. Crump was born on 25th August 1873 at Bromsgrove. He was an Area Secretary of the Transport and General ...
McDonalds Drive-In Restaurant
The McDonald's restaurant occupies a site on the junction of Lee Bank Middleway and Bristol Road. Prior to the building of McDonald's this site was occupied by the Abc/ Bristol Cinema.
McDonald's Restaurant - by Year Five at Woodview
The restaurant is on the Bristol Road. This is a great picture from the class - the captured reflections are amazing.