A Freak Chicken
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Weekly Post, September 30th 1905.
The article shows an illustration and description of a four legged chicken.
The bird was one of a hatch of Plymouth Rock chickens ...
A plant on Ryland Road - by year five at Woodview School
This is a unknown plant on Ryland Road.
An electric car at Highgate School
Highgate School reach the finals of the BP sponsored "buildacar" competition with this electric car in November 1980.
Annual Fuchsia Show, St Thomas' School
Poster for the Annual Fuchsia Show held by the Birmingham and District Fuchsia Society at St Thomas' School on Great Colmore Street.
Balsall Heath Library Computer Centre
A room at the back of the library was converted into a Local Learning Centre where Balsall Heath residents could get to know the basics of computing and word processing. Over 25 years computing has come ...
Birmingham Show, Perry Barr Park, September 1985
Display of Chelsea Dahlias.
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Postcard showing one of the exhibits from the Beale Memorial Collection in the Natural History Department of the Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. These Tawny owls were among numerous stuffed animals ...
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
The City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, seen in a postcard view looking along Edmund Street. In this rather low-angle photograph the 1912 extension to the Art Gallery has not yet been erected. The ...
Cuddeston Pool on the Cherry Orchard Estate
Cuddeston Pool was situated on the site of the present school in Cherry Orchard Road. Originally it was thought to have been a gravel pit, which had been filled by local springs and streams.
James Watt's Experiment Book
This is the first page of James Watt's laboratory notebook, describing his experiments on copal varnish, latent heat, etc.
To see the notebook in its entirety, page by page, go to Handsworth Histories ...
James Watt's Laboratory Experiment Book
James Watt's laboratory experiment book in it's entirety, page by page. It records, in Watt's own words and handwriting, his calculations, results and observations. It includes the description of his ...
James Watt's Workroom, Heathfield Hall
James Watt's Workroom, Heathfield Hall.
At the time of this photograph, November 1901) the room had been undisturbed since his death in 1819.
Japanese Maples on display
Display at the Birmingham Show in Perry Park in 1985.
Papers of Sir Richard Threlfall
Sir Richard Threlfall was a chemist and engineer who worked for the firm of Albright & Wilson, a large producer of phosphorous based at Oldbury. During the First World War he was on the Board of Invention ...
Pen and ink studies of snake by John Phillp
Pen and ink studies of a snake over a pencil drawing. From the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the ...
Pencil sketch of a tree in snow by John Phillp
This pencil sketch is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but the evidence is inconclusive. He was ...
Pencil sketch of cow lying under tree by John Phillp
This pencil sketch of a cow was done from nature. It is from the Phillp album, a collection of watercolours and sketches by John Phillp (c.1778-1815). Phillp may have been Matthew Boulton's son but ...
Perry Hall, Perry Barr.
Perry Hall, Perry Barr.
The Honorable Mrs Somerset Calthorpe and her Cat 'Tiddles'