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 ...
Grove Lane, Handsworth
Houses in Grove Lane, Handsworth, 1907. Situated opposite Holly Road, they are now shops.
Grove Lane, Handsworth
Corner of Handsworth Park at the junction of Grove Lane and Holly Road, Handsworth, showing a wall damaged in a storm.
Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding
Kingstanding Road (then called Holly Lane), Kingstanding, near The Circle in April 1928. Kettlehouse Farm and the Bandy Woods are visible.
Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding
Kingstanding Road, Kingstanding in 1900. At this date it was still known as Holly Lane.
Kingsvale School, Kingstanding
Kingsvale School, Holly Lane, Kingstanding, showing a school outing in the 1920s. The original village school for Kingstanding, it had opened in 1914.
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 ...