Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth in the snow from the railway near Ninevah Road. Handsworth Library Clock, Soho Road can be seen in the distance.
Handsworth Landscape
Albert Road, Handsworth
Handsworth Landscape
View of Handsworth from the railway line near Nineveh Road. The clock on Soho Road is visible in the distance.
Handsworth Library
The Librarian's Room at Handsworth Library. 1913. The library was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and newspapers in the Reading Room. The first Annual Report in 1881 stated that the ...
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for childrens' books. The view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century.
Handsworth Library
This room is now used for fiction books, the view was taken sometime in the late nineteenth century. Handsworth Library, on the Soho Road, was opened on May 1st, 1880. There were books to borrow, and ...
Handsworth Library
Undated photograph of the library probably taken sometime in the 1990's. The library is one of the oldest buildings standing on the Soho Road.
Handsworth Library and Council Buildings
One afternoon in October 2003
Handsworth Library on the Soho Road
Handsworth Library's 19th Century readers
Who were the people using Handsworth Library in the late nineteenth century?
Until 1902 the Annual Report recorded the trades of borrowers. 'Scholars and students' were always the largest group. There ...
Handsworth Magazine
The Handsworth Magazine started publication in July 1896 and described itself as a "local society magazine". The local areas targetted were Handsworth, Perry Barr and Birchfield and the appeal was towards ...
Handsworth Market
"Handsworth Market was usually bustling with stallholders and shoppers from varied cultural backgrounds. Selling everything from saris, sweet potatoes and reggae tapes, immediately after the disturbances ...
Handsworth Market, Soho Road
This once thriving and popular market is now closed. At the beginning of 2003 it lies derelict.
Handsworth Market, Wig Stall
Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record
The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could have been fed by the little stream that still trickles ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
Dating from the fifteenth century this is a fine example of the "cruck" method of construction with oak trunks supporting the walls (clearly visible in the end wall here). The Hall was rebuilt in the ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall
A different view of the hall to the way it is seen today, overgrown with creepers.