Adverts from the Oratory Magazine.
Two adverts for local businesses from the Oratory church magazine. Church magazines contained many adverts of this nature. Rudge, Brown and Co. were a coal merchants at Monument Lane Wharf off St Vincent ...
Barretts ad from Oratory Church magazine
Barrett's were, as the advert says, based on St Vincent Street.
Horse-drawn omnibus in St Vincent Street, Ladywood
This small horse-drawn 'family omnibus', as the caption on the original postcard calls it, was photographed in St Vincent Street, Ladywood, presumably around 1900. It belonged to the London & North Western ...
The Ladywood Boiler Explosion
On 29th September 1888, a Saturday morning to be precise, tragedy struck at the heart of Ladywood.
For many years the Midland Flour Mill had stood at the far end of St. Vincent Street. It was conveniently ...
The Ledsam Street Post Office
This undated picture is of the post office which stood at the junction of St Vincent Street and Ledsam Street. It does not look from the picture that the post office had too long to go before closure ...
W. Burgum of St Vincent Street
Burgum's were a coal merchants operating from the railway wharf off Sheepcote Street. This advert is taken from the St Thomas church magazine. St Thomas's was the church on Bath Row which was bombed during ...