Hamstead Mill
The mill was situated at the bottom of Hamstead Hill and is thought to be the one mentioned in the Domesday Book. It was used as a corn mill and was owned by the Wyreley Family. The millers associated ...
Hamstead Mill Farm, Hamstead
Hamstead Mill, by the River Tame, adjoining Hamstead Farm
Hamstead Mill, Hamstead
Hamstead water mill was used for a variety of purposes including milling flour, blades and as a slitting mill (cutting narrow rods from strips of metal which were then used to make nails). It was part ...
Hamstead Mill, Hamstead.
Showing the mill and the millpond.
Hamstead Road Baptist Church, Handsworth
Hamstead Road Baptist Church, Handsworth. Erected in 1882-3 and designed by the architect John. P. Osborne. Note the storm damage to the spire
Hamstead Road Toll-gate and Toll-house
The toll-gate and toll-house, Hamstead Road, Handsworth, at the Villa Road junction. A large lamp and the table of tolls are on the side of the house facing the gate, which stands wide open for a man ...
Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Hamstead Road, Handsworth, showing damage caused when a bus hit a lamp standard.
Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Hand-coloured postcard view of Hamstead Road, Handsworth, looking towards St Mary's Church
Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Old houses and barns in Hamstead Road, Handsworth, near Somerset Road. Looking towards Birmingham. 1896
Hamstead Road, Handsworth
Old houses and barns in Hamstead Road, Handsworth, near Somerset Road. Looking towards Hamstead Hill. 1896
Hamstead Village, Miners' Cottages
Derelict miners' cottages at Hamstead Village. Photograph taken on June 19th 1968. Miners who lived here worked at the nearby Hamstead Colliery.
Handsworth Golf Course Clubhouse
This clubhouse was built in 1905 and opened by Lord Dartmouth in 1906. A press report shows that it cost £2,000 including furnishing and describes it as "a commodious structure" comprising "smoking-room, ...
Handsworth and Smethwick railway station, Handsworth1600
Handsworth and Smethwick railway station, Handsworth
Handsworth and the Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald",19th June 1897.
This cutting refers to the muzzling order introduced by Staffordshire County Council the previous year, following an outbreak of rabies. ...
Handsworth bans Jude The Obscure
The Handsworth Library Annual Report made no reference to the banning of 'Jude the Obscure', by Thomas Hardy, from the library in March 1896, but there was animated discussion in the newspapers
'Mr ...