Birchfield Road, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road, Perry Barr, looking north at the point where the underpass would later be built. Just off the photograph to the right are Birchfield Library and the cinema.
Birmingham Municipal Bank, Birchfield Road
The north-east corner of the junction of Birchfield Road and Bragg Road. The prominent corner building is a branch of the Birmingham Municipal Bank at 293 Birchfield Road. The Trustee Savings Bank took ...
Bomb damage in Birchfield Road
Photograph of Birchfield Road, corner of Mansfield Road, 2 November 1940 Crowds looking at bomb craters from the air raid the previous night. Handsworth was heavily bombed in the blitz due to the high ...
Christ Church, Perry Barr
Christ Church, Perry Barr, in 1906. Built in 1862 as a mission church of St John's it went out of use in 1926 and became the premises of a timber merchant before being demolished.
Councillor A. Lane
This is an abridged biography from The Handsworth Magazine. The full biography is available as a download.
Councillor Alfred Lane, of Tudor House (Birchfield Road), Perry Barr, was born at Halesowen, ...
Fire at Perry Barr
A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting a fire at Old Farm, Birchfield Road. It had been started by tar which was being prepared for railings boiling over. The fire brigade under Captain ...
Flyover, Birchfield Road
This photograph, taken from under the flyover that covers most of the length of Birchfield Road, shows Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Birchfield Road and Trinity Road.
Handsworth Fire Brigade
Handsworth Fire Brigade at its Birchfield Road station which had opened in 1890. The brigade was founded in 1878.
Handsworth Fire Brigade, Birchfield Road Station.
The brigade was originally formed in 1878. 1898 £2,200 was borrowed to erect a new fire station and buy better equipment. The Birchfield Road station was acclaimed as one of the most efficient in the ...
Holy Trinity Church and Jame Masjid Mosque
The two buildings stand opposite each other on the corner of Trinity Road and Birchfield Road. Jame Masjid was formerly known as the Saddam Hussein mosque as he donated money for its erection.
Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield
The church was built in 1863 by the firm of Samuel Briggs from a design by the architect Julius ALfred Chatwin. The total cost came to £5,000! It is notable for a Rose Window commemorating the return ...
Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield Road
The parish of Birchfield was assigned out of St Mary's, Handsworth, in 1865. The church, Holy Trinity, had been consecrated on 17 May 1864 and its first vicar was Rev. J.W. Marshall. It was designed by ...
New Draper's shop in Perry Barr
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing the arrival of a new draper's shop in Perry Barr. J.T. Bowers of High Street, Aston were opening a branch six doors from Perry Barr station.
From the ...
New Post Office at Perry Barr
Newscuttings reporting the moving of the Perry Barr Post Office to the corner of Willmore Road and Birchfield Road and at least one user's response to it!
From the G.H. Osborne collection of newscuttings....
Old Crown & Cushion public house, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House, on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road, Perry Barr, in April 1959.
Old Crown & Cushion, Perry Barr
The Old Crown & Cushion Public House on the corner of Birchfield Road and Wellington Road.
Old police station, Perry Barr
The old police station, Perry Barr. Situated near Birchfield Library, the building was removed in the early 1950s when the road was widened.
Parliamentary Election Card 1922
The parties would deliver cards to householders gving them instructions on where and when they could place their vote. Of course they also suggested how exactly you might like to place your vote! Note ...