The official unveiling of Alfred Knight Way
Michael Carey and Anne Walsh, two of Alf's grand-children, unveiling the road sign. Alfred Knight won the Victoria Cross in 1917 at Ypres. He was born in Friston Street, Ladywood and it was decided to ...
The opening of Moonlit Park
Children from Woodview Primary School parading into Moonlit Park during the opening ceremony. They are all decorated with stars and streamers, including the cunningly disguised shopping trolley at the ...
The Osler Street School magazine
The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in 1950, featuring a footballer who looks rather too beefy to be a pupil.
"Osmag" was the chronicle of Osler Street Secondary ...
The Palais De Danse - Sensation of the Midlands
This article was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle" about the Palais De Danse in Ladywood.
On 20th December 1923 the Palais De Danse issued a souvenir of the third anniversary of the building. ...
The Paradise Club
Explanatory leaflet for the Paradise Club based at Handsworth Cultural Centre. Their activities were primarily concerned with the senior citizens in the area.
The Records of Birmingham Book Club, 23 April 1864. MS 2571/4/3/1
A volume recording a Shakespearean Tercentenary Festival organised by the Book Club at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston. This event was reported in the local newspapers. The volume contains a programme ...
The Regent Cinema
The Regent was also known as The Ledsam due to it being on Ledsam Street. It was opened in 1910 and closed about 1959, which was when this picture was taken.
The Shell Pool, Park Avenue
This was one of the landscaped pools laid out by Matthew Boulton in the grounds of Soho House.
In the 1880s when the Soho estate was being broken up it became part of the Shell Pool Grounds which was ...
The Soho Manufactory
The Soho Manufactory was founded in 1761 by Matthew Boulton on Handsworth Heath in the parish of Handsworth near Birmingham. The site of a water mill was taken over, quickly converted and expanded over ...
The Specials, Neville Staple
"Neville Staple sang with The Specials and was a founder member of Fun Boy Three. The Specials had a string of Top 20 hit's, the most famous being 'Ghost Town' (No 1 in 1981) and 'Too much to Young' (No ...
The stables at Soho House by John Phillp
This pen and ink drawing shows the stables at Soho House, the home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Bopulton (1728-1809). The image is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and ...
The Station Inn
The Station Inn at the corner of Monument Road and Cope Street. This pub was so called because the local railway station was directly opposite.The building to the right was at one time the home of the ...
The Three Sohos
The Three Sohos
by George Demidowicz
There has been considerable confusion by writers over the years in distinguishing between the three Soho sites:
The Soho Manufactory
The Soho Mint
The Soho ...
The Trees Hotel on Bath Row
The Trees Hotel (Formerly The Trees Inn) stodd on the corner of Wheeleys Lane at 98/100 Bath Row. Wheeleys Lane is the road running off to the left of the picture. Landlords of the pub include John Duller ...
The Warstone Public House
The Warstone, near the library in Icknield Street. The pub got its name from the large boulder which lies at the edge of the nearby Warstone Lane Cemetery, which is said to have been deposited by a large ...
The Wellington Public House
The Wellington Public House on Bromsgrove Street. This view in 1979 is almost unchanged today. Just visible to the left is The Diskery record shop and to the right is the now closed Starkey's the bakers....
The White Swan
An undated picture taken outside this Ansell's pub which stood on the corner of King Edward's Road and Stour Street. The landlord is the man to the right in the white apron.
The Woodman Pub
The Woodman, now demolished, used to stand on Cregoe Street in Lee Bank by the old Bell Barn Shopping Centre. This picture was taken by Lewis Green who used to reside in one of the four blocks on Lee ...