170 Belgrave Road
A yard area identified as the above but covering several addresses. The washing drying on the line and the open windows attest to a sunny day.
259 and 260 Great Colmore Street
Undated photograph by the Public Works Dept of Birmingham Corporation. part of the housing which had stood for many years in Lee Bank and subsequently demolished as part of the urban renewal of the area. ...
360-2 Moseley Road
Semi-detached pair of two bay 2 storey villas Circa 1830-40. This building is immediately adjacent to 356 which was built around the same time. This building was better maintained at the time since it ...
53 to 56 Great Colmore Street
These houses were photographed about 1960 and would be standing somewhere about the site of St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. They were photographed as part of the urban renewal of the area ...
African Liberation Day 1977
This picture is edited from a larger print to highlight the contrast between protester's banner and the two union jacks in the windows behind him. It's taken in Holly Road, Handsworth.
Aldridge Road, Perry Barr
Houses on the Blakelands Estate, off the Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, on 20th September 1934
At bay in Mary Street
Andy’s camera encapsulated his younger brother’s early life being brought up in Balsall Heath.
It is 1949, Shay is 7 years old and is dressed for Holy Communion. This picture was taken outside the Bartley’s ...
Back Yard, Handsworth
This photograph is of the back yard of Vanley's home at 197 Grove Lane in the 1980's.
Barker Street
Barker Street is named after George Barker. The Observatory Public House opened here in 1910.
Bissell Street
Bissell Street, Balsall Heath 1959
Bissell Street
The shop at the far right is unidentifiable apart from a large advertisement for "Wills' Woodbines". The street perhaps was named after Richard Bissell Prosser, the patents examiner and biographer from ...
Brighton Road
Brighton Road, Balsall Heath. Sign on right is "Painters and Decorators". Old brick built rail bridge in distance.
Brighton Road
Brighton Road, Balsall Heath. Sign at right reads "Mitchell & Butler's Gold Medal Ales".
Brunswick Road
Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath during demolition in the 1970's
Brunswick Road
Corner of White Street and Brunswick Road, Balsall Heath before demolition
Children in Back Yard, Handsworth
Coronation Day in Mary Street
It’s Coronation Day, June 2nd 1953. Wearing their party hats, Shay and his sister Elizabeth (Lily) are sitting on Andy’s first mode of transport, the rigid framed ex WD (War dept) motorbike. Note the ...
Cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth
Row of cottages at Soho Foundry, Handsworth (now W & T Avery Ltd), including number 13 where William Murdock lived for a while. He had originally come to join Matthew Boulton in the Soho Manufactory in ...