Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth.
Girls Grammar School, Rose Hill Road, Handsworth. (King Edward VI school). Built in 1911 to take in the girls from Summer Hill, which had become an old and inappropriate school building.
Great Colmore Street
Great Colmore Street in April 1970. The two figures look rather desolate in these surroundings, but behind them the tower of St Thomas' Church still stands proudly, having survived both World War II and ...
Grove Lane Baths
Grove Lane Swimming Baths was converted into flats. An estate of houses has also been built alongside it. As a child I regularly attended there with school, and during the holidays. A place which many ...
Grove Lane Baths: Main Entrance Interior
The inside of the main entrance to Grove Lane baths with the ticket office to the right hand side of the picture. The baths were opened on 28th January 1907.
Grove Lane J & I
Gymn class at Grove Lane Junior and Infant School
Grove Lane: Members and Chief Officers of the Baths and Parks Committee
The committee responsible for opening the swimming baths are shown here. Note that the members standing have been montaged into the photograph and were not actually present.
Listed are: Councillor ...
Grove Lane: The Diving Board of the First Class Swimming Bath
The diving board of the first class pool. In the background are the showers and above that the viewing gallery used for concerts. The baths were opened in 1907.
Grove Lane: The First Class Swimming Bath
Grove Lane's first class baths were superior to the second class in so much as they had private cubicles for changing in along the sides of the pool. The pool was used for concerts on occasions and the ...
Hampton Loade Ferry
Children from Woodview Primary School crossing the River Severn at Hampton Loade, en route to their "Dig For Victory" away day.
Hampton Loade Station
End of the line for Woodview Primary School was at this station on the Severn Valley Railway. From here they had to leave the train and travel by ferry and coach to their "Dig For Victory" WW2 evacuation ...
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 ...
Handsworth Community Library, Handsworth
Handsworth Community Library, Soho Road, Handsworth. The building had started life in 1879 as the council house for Handsworth Urban District Council. The branch library opened in the building in 1880. ...
Handsworth Council House
This upper chamber of the Council House was originally part of Handsworth Library. It was one of the rooms that was leased to Handsworth School of Dress Design until the 1960's, when the school became ...
Handsworth Council House and Library, Soho Road
A photograph of Handsworth Council House and Library taken in the late 1980's. City College, formerly known as Handsworth Technical College, now occupies the Council House portion of the building but ...
Handsworth Council House and Public Library
Building commenced on October 30th 1877. This photograph was taken after 1891 when the extension to the library premises had been built.
Handsworth Council Offices
Building commenced on October 30th 1877. It is located on the corner of Soho Road and Stafford Road and is now familiarly known as the location of the public library.
Handsworth Grammar School
Formerly known as the Bridge Trust School it opened on 5 August 1862 and consisted of one main room alongside two smaller classrooms and a boardroom. It became Handsworth Grammar School in 1890.
Handsworth Grammar School - Sites and Monuments Record
Designed in 1862 by a Mr Bidlake of Wolverhampton at a cost of £3,300. Constructed from red and black brick with stone dressings and a tile roof.
The building is single storeyed with seven bays. The ...