Meeting for Lady Electors 1922
As in 1918, the parties at the 1922 General Election were keen to extract support from the female electorate. At this time the vote was restricted to all women over the age of 30. Two women were MPs - ...
Meeting room at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The downstairs meeting room next to the kitchen area. The Centre was home to all manner of community activities which have now migrated to various venues in the Attwood Green area. It was demolished as ...
Meeting room at the Attwood Green Community Centre
The Centre was demolished as part of the urban regeneration of Lee Bank. It had been a centre for all manner of community activities - which have been maintained since at a variety of venues.
Meeting the locals
The Queen Mother taking time to talk to local residents during her tour of the Y Block development in 1957. So far none of these residents have been identified.
Meeting the Queen Mother
Local residents meeting the Queen Mother during her official vist to Nash House in 1957. Do you know anybody in the crowd?
Meeting the Queen Mother
Harry Wallace, caretaker of Nash House and his colleagues and family. They are posing happily either before or after meeting the Queen Mother on her official visit to see the Y-Block development.
Members of a local Gurdwara, Handsworth
"During the riots I was still Director of WMEMAS Arts organisation and heavily involved with the local community. A number of us went to the Guru Nanak Singh Gurdwara, Soho Rd. Members of the temple were ...
Memorandum of Inquiries to be made in relation to servants, reverse
This is a list of questions to be asked when interviewing candidates for a position at Soho House which was then the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton, the son of the industrialist Matthew Boulton.
1. ...
Memorial of War Service of Handsworth Grammar School 1914 - 1918
Following the end of the First World War Handsworth Grammar School issued a memorial booklet to all those from the school who had served - pupils and masters alike. In addition to the list, which is available ...
Memorial plaque to Elizabeth Dale
This plaque is in St Luke's Church and commemorates Elizabeth Dale who died on May 7th 1864. Elizabeth's husband Frederick was Vicar of the church at the time and she was also the daughter of John Miller ...
Memorial Service for Lord Kitchener
Notice for the Memorial Service for Lord Kitchener which was held at St Philip's Cathedral in Birmingham on Tuesday 13th June 1916. The Lord Mayor overseeing proceedings was Neville Chamberlain, later ...
Memorial to victims of WW2 air raids
This plaque was unveiled in 1995 as a memorial to all those killed during the blitz on Birmingham. It is on the wall of the tower of St Thomas's Church on Bath Row - itself a victim of the raids. A Peace ...
Memories of Lee Bank by Jim Davenport
The Lee Bank I remember as a child 70 years ago was vastly different to what it is today, we even had three chemists!
I was born in 1898 in the part of Irving Street that no longer exists. The area ...
Men at work, Handsworth
"Men at work in Lozells, Hamstead Road area of Handsworth." Pogus Caesar, February 2003.
Messerschmitt on Broad Street
A captured German Messerschmitt on display on the lawn area just opposite where the Repertory Theatre is now, and down from the Hall Of Memory. Across in the distance stands the former Birmingham Municipal ...
Metal worker's store on Brunswick Road
Eric, from the Caribbean, is a well known local man who works with wire and metals from his lockup on Brunswick Road - near the Ladypool Road end. Eric can often be seen with his push cart wandering around ...
Middleway to Bath Row
This view captures the changing face of the Lee Bank area. In the foreground we have two of the Middleway blocks built as part of the urban renewal of the nineteen fifties and sixties. The road running ...
Midland Adult School Union on Severn Street
By 1960 this building subsequently became home to the Birmingham Athletic Insitute. Today in 2004 it is boarded up with an uncertain future.