A horse sale in the Horse Fair
The Horse Fair is located off the island at the end of SmallBrook Queensway and it runs into Bristol Street. In the later years of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there were regular horse ...
D. Mason & Company Trade Advert
Mason & Company were Saddlery and Harness makers based at 141/142 Holloway Head. Their activity in the area would have been enhanced by the regular Horsefairs held near their premises. The advert dates ...
Farrier in Handsworth
Sadly the original image doesn't say where it is from but the Handsworth Historical Society beiieve it to be from Handsworth. It is probably early twentieth century in date.
Horse Fair at the Horsefair
Up into the early years of the twentieth century there used to be a horse fair held in Brick Kiln Lane. The Lane was renamed as the HorseFair in memory of the event. This is a rare picture of the event ...
Kettlehouse Farm, Perry Barr
Kettlehouse Farm, Perry Barr. In the fields near the farm the pumping station can be seen in the background. The lady in the picture is Elsie Judd, one of the tenants of the farm in the 1920s.
Mad dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 20th 1897.
This is the first in a series of news reports dealing with a suspected outbreak of Rabies In Perry Barr.
A collie was seen running madly ...
The Mad Dog at Perry Barr
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, January 21st 1897.
This is a letter replying to an article in the previous days newspaper, which gave an account of a shepherd from Perry village being ...