The Old Hall, Great Barr
The Old Hall was probably built around 1730 and is all that remains of a much larger house, containing fine timbers and panelling. Both the farmhouse and barn are now Grade II listed.
This watercolour ...
The Old Meeting Church, Bristol Street
The Old Meeting Church stood on the east side of Bristol Street, on the corner of Ashley Street. The church was built by the Unitarians, dissenters who had quite a long history in Birmingham. The famous ...
The Old Moseley Arms Public House
The Old Moseley Arms on Tindal Street. A very popular pub famed for the quality of its food as well as the beer.
The Old Ship Inn at Sandy Lane, Camp Hill
At the time this photograph was taken, the "Ship Inn", so called since the early 1800s and previously known as the "Anchor", was very old. The original half-timbered farm building, with stables, barn ...
The Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth
The Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth
The Olympia Cinema on Ladypool Road
The Olympia Ladypool Road originally known as the Ladypool Picture House. In the early days a 'picture house orchestra' played every evening. The name Olympia dates from 1916 when it closed for improvements ...
The opening of Grove Lane Public Baths
Grove Lane Baths were opened on Monday 28th January 1907 by Councillor John White of the Baths and Parks Committee. The design was by J P Osborne (F.R.I.B.A.)
The Orange Tree Tavern 1860
The Orange Tree Tavern, Moseley Road near Highgate Square, 1860. A drawing by Paul Bradon
The Oratory and Estate Office, Edgbaston
The buildings on the left in this Hagley Road scene form part of the Oratory and were originally the Oratory School. They were designed by Henry Clutton in a simple Italian Renaissance style in the early ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Cardinal Newman, founder of the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, came to Birmingham in 1849 and established the Oratory of St Philip Neri as a community ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The low angle of this photograph gives some idea of the scale and richness of E. Doran Webb's building, completed in 1909. Interestingly, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
The interior of the Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, from a postcard. Although the Oratory of St Philip Neri had been founded in 1852 by Cardinal Newman the church seen here was not built until 1903/09, ...
The Oratory, Edgbaston
Interior of the Oratory Church, Hagley Road, Edgbaston, looking towards the altar. The church, designed by E. Doran Webb, was built from 1903 to 1909 in memory of Cardinal Newman (who had died in 1890). ...
The Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
The Oratory in Hagley Road began as the English Congregation of the Oratory of St Philip Neri, founded by John Henry Newman in 1849. On moving to the Hagley Road site in 1852 Newman engaged Terence Flanagan ...
The Osler Street School magazine
The cover of 'Osmag', the magazine of Osler Street School, Ladywood, as it was in 1950, featuring a footballer who looks rather too beefy to be a pupil.
"Osmag" was the chronicle of Osler Street Secondary ...
The Palais De Danse - Sensation of the Midlands
This article was originally published in the "Brew 'Us Bugle" about the Palais De Danse in Ladywood.
On 20th December 1923 the Palais De Danse issued a souvenir of the third anniversary of the building. ...
The Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Although an inn had been on the site of the Plough and Harrow in Hagley Road since the 18th century a new building was designed by John Fallows in a Tudor Revival style and was erected in 1832. This is ...
The Pump Tavern - 236 Soho Road