Advert for the Perfect Thrift Building Society
From 1891. Most of the city would have lived in rented accommodation and this is an early example of attempts made to improve the lot of the working people.
Chamber Of Commerce, Harborne Road, Edgbaston
In the 1950s the Calthorpe estate commissioned their own plan for future development from local architect John Madin, probably the first such town-planning framework to be commissioned by a private urban ...
Five Ways, Edgbaston
Five Ways, Edgbaston, from a postcard that was postmarked August 1937. The view from the gardens is looking towards Islington Row, providing a rather more leisurely scene than the Five Ways of today. ...