Lloyd George escapes at Birmingham Town Hall
On 18 December 1901, giving a characteristically trenchant pro-Boer, anti-war speech at Birmingham Town Hall, Lloyd George was practically lynched by a patriotic mob and had to escape from the building ...
Local Schools
A series of pictures of local primary and secondary schools.
Lodge Road, Handsworth
Lodge Road, Handsworth. The board at second-floor level on the right appears to reveal the presence of the shoe shop Freeman, Hardy & Willis. A boy with a hoop stands idly in the middle of the road to ...
London General Insurance Company
An advertisement for the London General Insurance Company Limited in the programme brochure of the Fancy Fair held at St James Church on the 20th November till 23rd November 1929. The company had offices ...
Longleat without water in 1969
Longleat Tower was cut off without water for two days in October 1969 following a burst water main. Residents had to obtain their water from a standpipe outside the tower block while repairs were made. ...
Looking down New Street during the VE Day 60th Anniversary celebrations
Note the modern smaller barrage balloon flying by the fountain.
Looking for Directions
Old signpost still standing at the island at Church Lane and College Road.
Looking towards Five Ways
In this photograph we are looking up Lee Bank Road (still not yet the Middleway)towards Five Ways. A crane can be seen in operation up at Five Ways if you look carefully. The wall to the right of the ...
Looking towards Hogarth House
Gwen Hatton and her sister Florence Lee posing for the camera outside Faraday House. In the background is Hogarth House. Hogarth House is probably named after the eighteenth century painter and lithographer ...
Lord Mayor James Crump retires
Article taken from the Birmingham Gazette. Text reads as follows:
"Presentation of a silver tea service to the retiring Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Birmingham Alderman and Mrs J. Crump was made in ...
Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Neville Chamberlain (1915-1917)
Arthur Neville Chamberlain first entered politics in 1911 when he was elected as a councillor to Birmingham City Council and immediately became Chair of the Town Planning Committee. Birmingham soon adopted ...
Lower Cregoe Street
"Lower" Cregoe Street - long since gone - on the site of what became the park and is soon to be the new park. To the middle of the picture at number 43 is J. Hobday the fruiterer. Further down at number ...
Lower Essex Street in the blitz
This street runs between Bromsgrove Street and Sherlock Street. This is likely to have been the same air raid that caused major damage and loss of life at nearby Kent Street Baths. Note the barrage balloon ...
Lozells Road from Carpenter's Road
Lozells Road looking towards Newtown
"Handsworth riots 1985. All members of the community survey the scene on Lozells Rd...an eerie calmness fills the air, but an uneasy atmosphere hangs over the entire city of Birmingham." Pogus Caesar, ...
Lozells Street Hall, Handsworth
Lozells Street Hall, a Methodist chapel in Lozells Street, Handsworth. Designed by Crouch and Butler in 1893, this photograph dates from around 1950.
Lych Gate of Saint Mary's Church
As credited on the image, the church is often familiarly known as Handsworth Old Church.
Lych Gate, St Mary's Church by G.F.. Madeley
Watercolour dated 1927.