Aerial photograph of the area around Soho Road
A 1955 aerial photograph covering the area; road names, prominent buildings and place names have been overlaid in white to aid recognition. Handsworth Park is visible in the North East corner of the photograph.
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Bradley's Farm, Handsworth
Bradley's Farm, Rookery Road, Handsworth. 1906
Bradley's Farm, Handsworth
Bradley's Farm, Rookery Road, Handsworth. 1906
Class 4a, Rookery Road School
The teacher is M. M. Elvis.
Farm at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old farm on the site of Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth sometimes known as Wilkes Green Farm. The school, subsequently Rookery Road County Primary School, was built in 1898.
Handsworth District Council Medal for Perfect Attendance
This was presented to Dora Howell of Rookery Road Council School in 1910. This is the reverse of the medal.
Handsworth District Council Medal for Perfect Attendance
This was presented to Dora Howell of Rookery Road Council School in 1910. This is the obverse of the medal.
Houses at Rookery Road Board School, Handsworth
Old houses on the site of new Board School, Rookery Road, Handsworth. A photograph taken in 1898, the year Handsworth School Board opened the new school.
Muriel Cowan interview
Muriel Cowan was born in Dublin in 1934 and moved here when she was 21, after marrying an Irish building-worker who was already living in Birmingham. Since 1972, they have been living in a council house ...
Newton Smith
Newton Smith's shop selling fabrics stood on the corner of Rookery Road and Westbourne Road.
Advert taken from the programme for the Saint James' Church Fancy Fair held at the New Inns Assembly Rooms ...
Oxhill Road and Rookery Road
The Oxhill Video Store photographed in 1996. Above the doorway are the worn details of a previous business on the site. Arthur Henry Diaper was a grocer and was apparently noted for his Danish butter ...
Purus Bakeries
Purus Bakeries traded on Rookery Road at numbers 261 to 267 inclusive. The advert is interesting as it employs an approach a little beyond the norm for the times of merely listing products and services. ...
Rebuilding on site of "Doctor's House", Rookery Road
Doctor Welch's House was demolished in May 1969. The last occupant was a Dr Gorman or a Dr Campbell.
Reverend R. N. Young
An abridged biography from the Handsworth Magazine. The full version is available as a download. His address in 1896 was given as the Wesleyan Theological College in Friary Road.
The Rev. Robert Newton ...
Rookery Road Blitz damage
The aftermath of an air-raid in Rookery Road during WW2. It is open to conjecture what is going on in the foreground, is the queue of people waiting for essential supplies off the lorry? The picture dates ...
Rookery Road Blitz damage
The aftermath of an air-raid in Rookery Road during WW2. The photograph shows several recognisable themes from daily life in 1942 - a policeman stands guard over now dangerous buildings, mothers on the ...
Rookery Road Blitz damage
The aftermath of an air-raid in Rookery Road during WW2. This photograph is one of several takne by the Public Workd Department in 1942 of bomb damaged housing in the war.
Rookery Road Blitz damage
Bomb damage in Rookery Road during the blitz of 1942. In the background stands Trinity Methodist Church which narrowly escaped being hit in this raid. The church was built in 1914 on the site of an old ...