Icknield Street
View of Icknield Street in the nineteen fifties. To the left is Spring Hill Library, a fine redbrick Victorian structure still there to this day. The shops have now long gone but they include Walter Smith ...
Icknield Street (part 2) and Icknield Port Road (Part 1) in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
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Icknield Street part 1 in Kelly's 1939 Trade Directory
First part of the entry for Icknield Street. Also included on this page are entries for Hurst Street (part of), Hutton Road, Hyde Road, Hylda Road, Hylton Street, Icknield Square.
Icknield Street part 3 in 1939 Kelly's Trade Directory
Also including the following streets: Idbury Road, Ilmington Road, Ilsley Road, Imperial Road, Inchcape Avenue, Inge Street, Ingestre Road, Ingleby Street, Ingleton Road, Inkerman Street.
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Icknield Street railway bridge
The bridge was at the junction of Icknield Street and Pitsford Street. The bridge has since been replaced and now carries the Metro en route between Snow Hill and Wolverhampton. To the right is an advert ...
Icknield Street School, Ladywood
Inside Icknield Street School, Ladywood. The school opened as Icknield Street Board School in 1883 and became a Secondary Modern school in 1945.
Joseph Chamberlain's Funeral
This previously unpublished image shows the gravediggers moving in to finish work after the Chamberlain family had left the funeral. It has a real air of finality to it, after all he had achieved in life ...
Joseph Chamberlain's Funeral at Key Hill Cemetery
This exhibition contains previously unpublished images. They were not professionally taken and are the only record of the burial of this great man.
Chamberlain, MP and former Lord Mayor of Birmingham, ...
Key Hill Cemetery
Key Hill Cemetery lies at the edge of Birmingham's jewellery quarter and is the last resting place of many of the rich and famous of Birmingham. This exhibition includes some views of the cemetery, some ...
Plan showing position of Archdale Works
This map shows how conveniently located the Works were, being easily accessible from New Street Station. You could either travel by train out to Monument Road Station or take the tram via Icknield Port ...
Spring Hill and Icknield Street, Ladywood
In this aerial view of the junction of Spring Hill (to the left) and Icknield Street (to the right) Spring Hill Library stands grandly in the centre, hemmed in by somewhat less grand Victorian development. ...
The Royal Mint, Icknield Street, Ladywood
The Royal Mint public house stood at 200 Icknield Street, Ladywood, taking its name from the actual Mint that is on the opposite side of the road. Presumably people only became confused if they had been ...
The Sentinel Magazine, Christmas 1939
Page 1 of the Sentinel Magazine. The first wartime issue of the Magazine for Icknield Street Boys School. Produced from their place of evacuation at Cinderford in Gloucestershire.
The temple in Key Hill Cemetery
The temple was designed by Charles Edge and was sited in the middle of the cemetery. Sadly it was demolished in 1966 due to being unsafe. There is a society called The Friends of Key Hill Cemetery who ...
The Warstone Public House
The Warstone, near the library in Icknield Street. The pub got its name from the large boulder which lies at the edge of the nearby Warstone Lane Cemetery, which is said to have been deposited by a large ...