Grant Street, Lee Bank
Nineteenth-century housing in Grant Street, Lee Bank. The photograph was taken on 6th July 1948, when the area was on the brink of redevelopment. The City of Birmingham set up five Comprehensive Redevelopment ...
Grant Street, Lee Bank
Destruction in Grant Street, Lee Bank, caused by enemy action on 19th November 1940. 80 houses were demolished and 200 others badly damaged. Five people were killed and A.R.P. Warden Henry Pickering was ...
Gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery
The disused cemetery stands next to the railway line which at one time threatened the site. The walls of the cemtetery have a slight historical interest as there is now so little in the immediate area ...
Great Colmore Street
Undated photograph of Great Colmore Street. The children are in Victorian/ Edwardian costume so it is probably early twentieth century. The snow on the ground suggests it is Winter. As to which section ...
Great Colmore Street
The Grand Junction Public House stands to the left of the picture with the public urinal standing outside. This view of Great Colmore Street is at the top end near the junction with Bell Barn Road.
Great Colmore Street
The centre of the photograph is the Great Colmore Garage which was owned by Leonard Allen. Next door is the shop owned by James Hayward. The car parked next to the shop is on Clifton Grove. Today this ...
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 ...
Great Colmore Street - August Bank Holiday 1968
View down Great Colmore Street on August 28th 1968. Judging from the slope this is looking down towards the Bristol Street end but as the numbers are not visible it is difficult to say where exactly it ...
Great Colmore Street in Kelly's Trade Directory 1939
Great Charles Street, Great Francis Street
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Redevelopment was well advanced when this photograph was taken in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, presumably in the 1960s. Tower blocks and great sweeps of grass have replaced the streets of Victorian ...
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Houses in Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, photographed on 7 March 1965 when demolition was not far off. The entire district, as a designated redevelopment area, underwent massive change from the 1950s ...
Ground excavation
Excavation and clearance for the new park area off Bell Barn Road. Part of the Crest Nicholson development of Attwood Green.
Ground preparation for phase 1A and 1B
Preparations made by Crest Nicholson prior to building phase 1A and 1B of Park Central. To the right is Wheeley's Lane and in the far distance is the entrance to Wheeley's Road coming onto Lee Bank Middleway....
Ground preparations
Ground levelling of the area formerly partly occupied by the local park. The view is looking across to Lee Bank Middleway and two of the four blocks at the top of the road.
Guinea Gardens
View in one of the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road. These gardens along with farms and orchards spread across this area to Holloway Head.
Gwen Hatton and Emily Hancox
Taken some years after the move to Faraday House. Gwen and Emily are photographed by the flower beds outside the block.
Gwen Hatton and family
Left to right are: Gwen Hatton, Doris (sister), Stan Hancox (brother-in-law), Emily Morton (mother), and Gladys (sister).
The background shows a nice view of the old shops which were eventually demolished, ...
Haddon Tower
Haddon Tower is located on the corner of Bristol Street and Lee Bank Middleway. It stands across the road from St Luke's Church. In common with the other tower blocks built in Lee Bank it is named after ...