Handsworth Hall
Lithograph by T Underwood, Birmingham.
Handsworth Hall was situated in extensive grounds covering the area of Villa Road, Rose Hill, Crick Lane and Broughton Road. The site of the actual house was at ...
Handsworth Landscape
Albert Road, Handsworth
Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth in the snow from the railway near Ninevah Road. Handsworth Library Clock, Soho Road can be seen in the distance.
Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth from the railway line near Nineveh Road. The clock on Soho Road is visible in the distance.
Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record
The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could have been fed by the little stream that still trickles ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
Dating from the fifteenth century this is a fine example of the "cruck" method of construction with oak trunks supporting the walls (clearly visible in the end wall here). The Hall was rebuilt in the ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, and tenement, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
This painting shows the Old Town Hall as it appeared in 1840. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, ...
Handsworth Park, Handsworth
Park House in Handsworth Park, Handsworth, about 1930. Originally called Grove House and situated in Grove Lane, Park House was built by William Bratt in 1780. Subsequently the house and grounds were ...
Handsworth Park: Entrance to Hamstead Road
Colour tinted postcard of the entrance to the park from Hamstead Road. This view was taken around 1910 and is instantly recognisable today.Also known as Victoria Park it was opened on Jubilee Day in ...
Handsworth Rectory
View of the side of Handsworth Rectory. It stood between the graveyard and the pool.
Handsworth Rectory
The Rectory stood approximately between where the Victoria Park Pool now is and the present Main Gate and the Richardson Memorial Garden.
Handsworth Rectory, Handsworth
Handsworth Rectory, Handsworth
Handsworth Rectory, Handsworth
Handsworth Rectory. The house and grounds stood in the area now in Handsworth Park between the pool and the main gate, and appears on a map published as late as 1877.
Handsworth Town Hall
The Old Town Hall stands at the corner of College Road and Slack Lane, and is one of the best examples in England of the cruck method of timber frame construction. This method uses curved oak timbers ...
Hansom cab outside Laurels School
This photograph of a Hansom cab was taken outside the Laurels School at the corner of Handsworth Wood Road and Wood Lane.
The Laurels had been known as Hunts Green in the late eighteenth century. ...