A Perry Barr Divorce Suit - Assaulting a Wife with a Turkey
This newscutting reports on a divorce suit brought by Agnes Mary Barnes against her husband Frederick James Barnes, a commercial traveller. It was alleged that Barnes had committed adultery with one ...
Boxing Practice
Golden Gloves boxing club on the Moseley Road. Father and son sparring.
Boy & Butcher Shop
This photgraph was taken because the striking stripey trousers that the boy is wearing look like they have been made out of the canopy material from the shop. This is Walter Smith butcher shop and it ...
Coming or going?
This photo by Lewis Green is an image you can wonder about for ages and still not come up with a definitive answer. Does it show a couple going somewhere or are they coming back? Is the ladt upset or ...
Frederick Bellamy
Frederick Bellamy in a picture taken in about 1904. His father was Edwin Bellamy, the founder of E.C. Bellamy & Co. of Pritchard Street, Newtown Row, makers of Kelly lamps.
This photograph is one of ...
Handsworth Couple Separated
A newscutting from Birmingham Mail regarding the separation of Mary and David Grime. It is likely that this is the same David Grime who appeared in court in July seeking damages for breach of contract ...
Herbert Bellamy, Perry Barr
Herbert Bellamy of Wellington Road, Perry Barr, c.1900.
Kitchen / Harry Potter
The kitchen back door has gone, replaced by a brand new cooker and fridge and a smooth tiled wall. The kitchen stretches the length of the old kitchen and bathroom combined and the new bathroom is now ...
Marcus Garvey Day Nursery
This was one of the first nurseries set up specifically to care for young black children.
Mrs Bellamy, Perry Barr
Mrs Bellamy of Wellington Road, Perry Barr, c.1900
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 ...
Portrait
This picture was taken in Walsall. This photograph was taken as part of an exhibition commissioned by Walsall Youth Forum for Caribbean Focus. These photographs are kept in Walsall Library Local Studies ...
Portrait
This photograph was taken at a funeral in Walsall.
Portrait of a Bridesmaid
Bridesmaid at a wedding in West Bromwich.
Portrait of Elderly Couple
This photograph was taken in Walsall as part of Caribbean Focus exhibition, and is held in Walsall Library Local History Department.
Suicide through love at Perry
This newscutting from the G.H Osborne collection tells of the suicide of 18 year old Marion Lilly Whatton a machinist from Clifton Road, Aston.
She had seen her sweetheart, Charles Turner of Guildford ...
Tragic Affair at Perry Barr
These cuttings deal with the deal of Harry Reginald Bradley who drowned when his mother jumped into the canal at Perry Barr while holding him. (Use the 'zoomify ' function to make the cuttings readable.)
The ...
Walking and talking
The first of two pictures. Lewis Green took this picture from his flat of a couple deep in conversation. The outcome in the second picture shows them walking with a suitcase. The story behind it though ...