Aerial view from Clydesdale Tower
Looking towards the South side of the city. Bristol Street is in the near foreground. Bromsgrove Street can be seen curving onto Bristol Street.
Bow Street
This view of Bow Street was taken from the Windmill Street end looking towards Irving Street. Right behind you today would be Clydesdale Tower.
Bright - Lighting the Sentinels
Over the period from November 2001 to January 2002 the Sentinels on Holloway Head were lit up at night. The amazing light display of the two blocks is shown in this photograph taken on the launch night ...
Chapman's Mill - by Chris Upton
Turn the clock back a little more than a century and there were genuine windmills to see in Birmingham and not a Dutchman in sight. Perhaps the most famous of them stood in the unlikely location of Holloway ...
Chapman's Windmill and R.Wier on Holloway Head
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers - Angela Maloney
Beautiful cloudy sky between the two "Sentinels" on Holloway Head.
Clydesdale Tower, Holloway Head, Lee Bank
Clydesdale Tower is one of the two Sentinel Towers in Holloway Head, Lee Bank, overlooking Holloway Circus. The view is looking southward along Bristol Street, with the dome of the Catholic Church of ...
Essex Street towards Clydesdale Tower
This is the view looking up Essex Street, across The Horsefair, with Clydesdale Tower in the distance. the shops on either side are still recognisable from the early twentieth century. Up till 1961 you ...
Holloway Head
Holloway Head is to the bottom right of the photograph, the twin tower blocks of The Sentinels clearly visible. Other familiar Birmingham locations are there to be seen too such as The Central Library, ...
Holloway Head, Chapmans Mill and R. Wier's Store
Chapman’s brick built tower mill stood on the hill overlooking Holloway Head. It is thought to have been constructed in 1745 by Clark’s who were millwrights in Deritend until the late 18th century. There ...
Lee Bank sports ground
The sports ground at Lee Bank off Holloway Head seen not long after it was nearly finished. Nearly finished because the developers at this time were struggling to get the last occupant out of the building ...
Nature and Tower Blocks - Angela Maloney
A collection of photographs by local artist Angela Maloney contrasting tower blocks with nature. Angela has a website featuring her wonderful paintings at www.angelamaloney.co.uk. This image is of the ...
St Catherine of Siena
The church in 1979 with the Sentinels tower blocks (Clydesdale and Cleveland) looming behind. The church offered mass for the first time on 20th December 1964 and was a replacement for the demolished ...
St Catherines and the Sentinels
St Catherine of Siena. This Roman Catholic Church was "opened" in 1964 and replaced the old Victorian St Catherine's which stood further up towards Holloway Circus. A celebrated priest at the church was ...
St Catherine's from Essex Street
St Catherine Of Siena had it’s origins in 1872 when Father Fenn acquired seven properties in Windmill Street with a deposit of £35 on the total price of £350. These properties covered an area of 440 sq. ...
St Catherines RC School on Windmill Street
The school was opened on January 3rd 1876 as St Catherine's Boys' School. The infants had already occupied part of the building the year before that. The school became mixed but space proved a problem ...
The Sentinels
View of Cleveland (left) and Clydesdale (right) Towers taken in 1971 which was the year of their completion. It is difficult now to imagine Birmingham without these on the skyline.
The Sentinels, Holloway Circus, Lee Bank
In April 1970 the view down Holloway Head, Lee Bank, shows the Sentinels - Cleveland and Clydesdale Towers. These matching 32-storey towers were designed by James A. Roberts in association with the City ...