City Road, Edgbaston
City Road, Edgbaston, looking south from the junction with Dudley Road. In this postcard view dating presumably from the late Victorian period the scene is almost unbelievably deserted, apart from a small ...
City Road, Edgbaston
City Road, Edgbaston, looking south from the junction with Dudley Road. In this postcard view a few cars are visible, dating it perhaps to the early 1900s, but otherwise nothing much seems to be happening. ...
Five Ways, Edgbaston
Five Ways, Edgbaston, looking down Islington Row. This postcard view of 1921 shows the statue of Joseph Sturge, which was erected in 1862. Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) was a Quaker businessman active in ...
George Dixon Grammar School, Edgbaston
George Dixon Grammar School, in City Road, Edgbaston, in an undated but obviously early photograph. The school had started in Oozells Street as the George Dixon Higher Grade School and moved to the City ...
Rev. Rolf Gledhill, Vicar of St Germain's, Edgbaston
The Rev. Rolf Gledhill, Vicar of St Germain's, Edgbaston, photographed in his study in September 1942. He was vicar of St Germain's, in City Road, from 1939 to 1945 through the war years, and had previously ...
St Germain's Church, City Road, Edgbaston
St Germain's Church, Edgbaston, on the corner of City Road and Portland Road.
Designed by E.F. Reynolds in a Romanesque style, the church was built between 1915 and 1917. The brick-built church is seen ...