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 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
View of the rear of the property taken sometime in the nineteenth century.
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.
Handsworth Old Town Hall - Sites and Monuments Record
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane, some 100 yds below the Grove Tavern. It is of plain domestic architecture of the sixteenth century community of Handsworth, when it was a mere village. ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, and tenement, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall by G Warren Blackham
This painting shows the Old Town Hall as it appeared in 1840. The hall has been used as a workhouse, a lock-up and a parish office, for at least a century and a half. Described in 1709 as a messuage, ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Cruck House at the junction of Slack Lane and College Road, Handsworth, on 13th August 1932. The listed building, also known as Handsworth Old Town Hall, dates back to the 15th century and was restored ...
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Handsworth
Handsworth Old Town Hall, Slack Lane, Handsworth, photographed in November 1981. Using the traditional cruck method of timber framing, the building dates from the 15th century and was renovated in 1947....