107 Edward Rd
This section of the road has since been demolished. At one time Edward Road had dozens of local shops offering a wide range of goods. Today only a few remain - mostly around the junction with Cannon Hill ...
35 Summer Road, Lee Bank
The name Mitchells & Butlers can be seen over the front of 35 Summer Road, Lee Bank, and indeed directories of the time list Mrs Doreen Taylor of 35 Summer Road as a beer retailer. The photograph was ...
A Grand Concert
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald announcing a Grand Concert in the grounds of the Old Crown and Cushion on Birchfield Road in aid of the Perry Barr Reservists Fund. There is still a pub called the ...
A pharmacy on Ladypool Road
The modern sign for a chemist is the green cross which shows the pharmacy is fully licensed to dispense medicine. Despite the fact that more drugs are available over the counter there is still a large ...
A pint in the Woodman
This picture, by Lewis Green, was taken in The Woodman pub which used to stand on Cregoe Street until 2005. The two people in the picture are unknown but at least one local resident remembers the gentleman ...
A.E. Benjamins's Furniture
Albert E. Benjamin traded at 127 Holyhead Road (near to the junction with Woodland Road) as a house furnisher selling goods available at "fair prices" for cash or "terms". Many people would have got their ...
ABC Cinema - formerly The Bristol
The ABC Cinema in 1979 on the site of what is now MacDonalds drive-in restaurant at the junction of Lee Bank Middleway and the Bristol Road. Showing that day in 1979 were "Monty Python's Life Of Brian", ...
Acapulco Cafe, Lozells
The guy playing the machine is Chris, he owned the shop. The cafe was demolished and in 2003 the site is the car park of Aldi.
Acapulco Cafe, Lozells
This is a photograph of George playing pool. The first time that Vanley took his camera into the Acapulco, he asked the owner, Chris's persmission to take photographs. Chris responded: "It's your camera, ...
Advert for the "Elite" Picture House
The Elite cinema opened on 30th September 1913 at 116 Soho Road which lies between Thornhill Road and Stafford Road. The proprietor was Lizzie Mann and the first film shown was "Bread Upon The Water". ...
Advertisement for E. Hull, family butcher, Edgbaston
A 1935 advertisement for E. Hull, family butcher, of 102 Bell Barn Road, Edgbaston. Edgar Hull also had a shop at 168 Winson Green Road, but in 1939 he was not listed at either of these addresses and ...
Advertisement for Myers, ladies' outfitters
This advertisement for the ladies' outfitters who simply called themselves Myers dates from 1935. Contemporary directories refer rather oddly to the proprietor as 'Myer Myers' but in the 1950s she is ...
Advertisement for S. Cawthorne, hatter and hosier, Sherlock Street, Lee Bankvert
Samuel Cawthorne set up shop as a hatter at 198 Sherlock Street in 1914 and later, as this advertisement shows, extended his range to cover most items of men's clothing. If the advertisement is to be ...
Advertisement for W.R. Lowe, greengrocer
This advertisement for W.R. Lowe, greengrocer, of 16 Cox Street West must date from the 1930s. William Lowe's business first appears in directories in that decade, but neither he nor his address appear ...
African Caribbean Bookshop, Handsworth
The Harriet Tubman Bookshop on Grove Lane
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
Wellhead farmhouse, Aldridge Road, Perry Barr. When this photograph was taken on 31st January 1973 this house belonged to a car repair firm but it still boasted some extremely ornate bargeboards on the ...
Alston Street
Coley's Privision Shop at the junction with Johnstone Street. Both streets have since been demolished but this crossroads lies near to Rodney Close.
Amex Wines on Mary Street
Serving "wines from the world".