'Accent on Youth'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited her Handsworth studio.
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Aerial photograph of area around Handsworth Wood Schools and Perry Hall Playing Fields
A 1955 aerial photograph covering the area; road names, prominent buildings and place names have been overlaid in white to aid recognition. Local roads visible include Wood Lane, Somerset Road and Handsworth ...
'And Most Divinely Fair'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd. Process: plastika.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited ...
'Anita in Black'
Photograph by Ruth Handley, nd.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist in portrait photography. Mostly known for her photographs of actors and actresses who visited her Handsworth studio.
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'Beecroft' Butlers Road
Undated photograph of house on Butlers Road.
'Black Magic'
Photograph by Ruth Handley.
Label on reverse: 'Handsworth Photographic Society. Accepted and Hung [at the] Exhibition of Midland Photography, 1954'.
Ruth Handley(1899-1957)was renowned as a specialist ...
Browne's Green House
This house was probably built around 1800 although there had been a house on the site before that. James Chance the glass manufacturer lived here in the 1850s.
The house was demolished around 1900 ...
Brownes Green Lodge
The Lodge is still standing at the time of writing. There was originally also a house on the site but this was demolished in 1900, although the ice-house survived till 1951. One famous visitor was Oliver ...
Brownes Green Lodge
About 1870 The Lodge was built in 1810 and added to the Statutory List of the Department of the Environment as having special architectural or historic interest.
Brownes Green Lodge
This photograph of Browne's Green Lodge shows Miss Allen who lived there and sold sweets to the children at Browne's Green School. The lodge still stands today. Browne's Green House was demolished around ...
Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley
This painting of Browne's Green Lodge by E.R. Madeley shows it with a thatched roof. The thatch was replaced in 1949. The lodge still stands today.
Browne's Green House itself had been demolished around ...
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood, 1934. Brown's Green takes its name from one Roger Browne who paid a yearly rental of 5 shillings for a 'croft' there in the 1530s. The later 18th-century Brown's Green ...
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood
Brown's Green, Handsworth Wood, 1934. Brown's Green takes its name from one Roger Browne who paid a yearly rental of 5 shillings for a 'croft' there in the 1530s. The later 18th-century Brown's Green ...
'Castles in the Air '
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Exhibition labels on reverse, include: 'Handsworth Photographic Society. Accepted and Hung [at the] International Exhibition, 1956' and 'Midland Salon ...
Cherry Orchard Farm
Cherry Orchard farm was owned in 1900 by the Hales family. It was said to have dated from the fourteenth century, in 1327 it was listed as the home of Atte-Le-Berg. The house was demolished in 1930 and ...
'Chessmen'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Exhibition labels on reverse, include: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] Leamington Spa, 1948' and 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic ...
'Clairvoyant'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process; bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Tamworth Photographic Society. Accepted and Hung [at the] Exhibition of Midland Photography, Midland Federation Class. 1952'; & 'Sutton ...