Old and modern signs on Ladypool Road
The idea of advertising your business by painting on the wall has largely gone out of fasion due to modern alternatives in design. Here we see two surviving examples from different eras on the side of ...
Old and New
Faraday House and to the right Hogarth House. In the middle distance is Wilkes Greengrocers and the road leading off up the hill is Pigott Street. Just to the right and behind Hogarth House would be Chatsworth ...
Old cottage on the Holyhead Road
Undated but early twentieth century.
Old Cottages on Church Lane
The old cottages stood opposite Lea Bridge House on Church Lane. The Lane was originally a bridle path leading to St Mary's Church and used to be known as Field Lane.
Old Cottages on Handsworth Wood Road
Handsworth Wood Road was turnpiked in 1787 and several cottages stood on the road. It is uncertain which cottages these are.
Old Cottages, Church Lane
Old Cottages in Church Lane looking towards the direction of the junction of Wellington and Hamstead Roads. These cottages are referred to as 'old cottages' even at the end of the 1890s, the earliest ...
Old cottages, Church Lane by E.N. Madeley
These cottages were built in 1699 by the Smallwood family. Members of the Smallwood family occupied at least one of these cottages for several generations.
One of the last occupants was a Miss Katie ...
Old Cottages, Church Lane by G. Willis Pryce
These cottages were built in 1699 by the Smallwood family. Members of the Smallwood family occupied at least one of these cottages for several generations.
One of the last occupants was a Miss Katie ...
Old Crick Lane, Handsworth
Old Crick Lane, Handsworth, 1911. In the background the new Handsworth Grammar School for girls is under construction. Old Crick Lane was closed after Rose Hill Road was built.
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 Farmhouse, Holyhead Road
This image is taken from a photocopy of the original which is missing.
Old Fire Station
The old fire station on the Moseley Road remains one of the finest buildings in Balsall Heath. During the blitz in the Second World War the station worked overtime in tandem with the auxiliary fire stations ...
Old friends
Beatrice Burton, Maurice Burton, Jimmy Phillips and Sylvie Shaw. The location is long forgotten but these four were photographed together sometime in the late 1960s. The Burtons ans Sylvie are known to ...
Old Houses, Soho Hill by Paul Braddon
This watercolour of old houses on Soho Hill was painted by Paul Braddon in 1894.
Old Parish Offices, Handsworth
Old Parish Offices, Baker Street, Handsworth in June 1908. Built in 1830, the building subsequently became a warehouse before demolition in 1961.
Old Perry from the Aldridge Road by William Nicholls
William Nicholls was a Birmingham landscape painter who exhibited 21 works at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists between 1875 and 1889. His works included landscapes, rural and town scenes.
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.