A curious tramcar fatality
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 3rd October 1891.
This cutting gives details of the inquest into the death of Walter, Charles Hewitt from Birchfield Road.
Mr Hewitt had tried to jump off ...
A Guard killed at Perry Barr
These newscuttings report the death and inquest of train guard Mark Robins. Robins was a guard on a L&NWR coal train to Perry Barr. He was directing his train into a siding to allow a football train ...
A lady killed at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the death of Mrs Elizabeth Wells. Mrs Wells was the wife of Austin L. Wells of Warren Farm, Perry Barr. She was being driven to Birmingham ...
A woman drowned at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting taken from the Sutton Coldfield and Erdington Times November,22nd 1889.
This is a brief report following the discovery of a womans body in a pool on Mr Austin Well's farm, near Holly ...
A. Andrew and Sons Undertakers - Bath Row
The company of A. Andrews occupied a site on Bath Row for decades. The firm occupied numbers 163 to 175 Bath Row and this stood at the junction of Bath Row with Islington Row. The current site of where ...
Child's Death at Perry Barr
A cutting from the Handsworth Herald relating to the death of two-month old Thomas Henry Adams of Well Head Lane.
From the G.H. Osborne newcuttings collection.
Fatal Tram Accident
There were a number of fatal accidents involving trams. This one was particularly poignant. Five year old Leonore Sandbrook and her brother had been on an errand and stopped at Corporation Street on ...
Found Drowned
This newscutting reports on the inquest following the death of eighteen year old James Coope. Coope had lived with his aunt and uncle in Livingston Road, had argued with them and had his ears boxed. ...
No Fireguards - Birmingham Children Burnt to Death
This newscutting deals with the inquests into the deaths of two children, one from Franchise Street, Perry Barr. The mother of two year old Kate West was upstairs when she heard Kate screaming in the ...
Painful drowning case at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889.
This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Hawkes Lane, West Bromwich.
She had been found dead in ...
Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box
A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting the discovery of the body of a baby in a cardboard box on the Aldridge Road. The child was not identified and was found to have been strangled.
From ...
Sad Death at Perry Barr
This newscutting from the Handsworth Herald relates the death of Miss Emily Lindsay from Wellhead Lane. She had suffered from consumption for some time but had seemed healthy until a few days before ...
Strange Death of a Prisoner at Perry Barr
This newscutting reports the death of a woman in the cells at Perry Barr police station. She was found lying across the railway line and taken to the police station. She asked to be left alone and ...
Suicide of a Barmaid at Perry Barr
A newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection reporting on the death of Maude Edith Hawkes, a barmaid from the Fox Inn, Holly Lane, Perry Barr. She died after drinking a solution of 'Battle's Vermin ...
Suspicious Death in Birmingham
This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the inquest into the death of William Newton of Franchise Street, Perry Barr. He had been out drinking at the Freeholder's Arms and the next ...
The Childrens Hospital c.1935.
A view from the gardens showing the open air wards.
The Childrens Hospital c.1935.
Christmas celebrations for the outpatients at the Childrens Hospital.
The Childrens Hospital c.1935.
Artifical sun ray treatment at the Birmingham Childrens Hospital c.1935.