191 - 201 Soho Road
From left to right the shops are: William Henry Boraston - Supplies/ Groceries, Ernest Richards - Fishmonger and Fruiterer, Thomas Edwin Young - Tailor, Henry Sims - Ironmonger, Corbett and Sons - Printers, ...
5 Court - Great Colmore Street
View of the rear of a court on Great Colmore Street. The incline of the street can be seen quite clearly in the photograph. It is nice to see people in the doorway as most of the Public Works pictures ...
A Freak Chicken
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Weekly Post, September 30th 1905.
The article shows an illustration and description of a four legged chicken.
The bird was one of a hatch of Plymouth Rock chickens ...
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 ...
A party of girls about to start for Canada
A party of girls about to start for Canada from the "Emigartion Homes". John Middlemore was a rich benefactor in Birmingham who opened the Children’s Emigration (or Middlemore) Homes in 1872 as a charitable ...
A Runaway Horse
A newspaper cutting from the "Mercury" June 1906.This sketch is taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings collection. A short article in the Handsworth Herald describes the incident as follows:
"On Monday ...
A Tale of Starvation
A newspaper cutting from the Handsworth Herald, May 13th 1905. This is a report on the discovery of a semi-concious man being found lying in Rocky Lane.
It was later discovered by Police-constable Potts ...
A Woman's Remarkable Leap into Canal
Maud Brotherton threw herself from Tower Hill Bridge into the Walsall Canal which was suggested to be a distance of sixty feet into a six foot deep canal.
Two girls on their way to work at Kynoch's ...
A.W. Gurden - Dairy Producer
Gurdens were a fixture in Ladywood for many years selling milk, eggs and butter. Their offices were at 67/69 Marroway Street and also at 67 St Martin's Street.
Advertisement for Mr Pieri's language classes
This advertisement for a Birmingham language tuition business is undated but must be Victorian. Mr (or perhaps Signor?) G.A.P. Pieri specialised in German, French and Italian and was based at 105 Bath ...
Aerial view
An atmospheric view taken during one of Lieutenant Lempriere's balloon flights.
Aerial view from the balloon
Aerial photograph from an album, taken from balloon of roof tops - sadly the photograph does not list the location. The long line in the bottom right hand corner is probably a rope from the balloon.
Lempriere's ...
Aerial view of Dudley Castle from the balloon
Aerial photograph from an album, taken from balloon of crowds at event at Dudley Castle. Visible in the top left corner is the bandstand with crowds arranged on seats around it.
Lieutenant Lempriere, ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page one)
This Agreement made on the third day of March one thousand eight hundred and ninety one between the Reverend Frank Scott Webster MA, John Walford Lea and Edward King Mason on behalf of the managers of ...
Agreement between St Thomas's School and Harry Birch (page two)
...regularly and punctually make such returns as may from time to time be required.
4. The said Managers agree to pay the said Teacher a salary of one hundred and thirty pounds per annum payable by ...
Airship design for Lieutenant Lempriere
Printed postcard, with illustration of an air ship called 'America', with address printed to side '466 5th Ave., Brooklyn, New York'. On reverse, written in hand, 'With Compliments of the inventor, to ...
Albert Edward Heaton
Albert Heaton was the Vicar of St Luke's Church in Bristol Street from 1909 to 1926.
Alderman Glass
Louis Glass, who was born in 1903 in Burton-on-Trent, qualified as a doctor and then, in 1929, was elected onto Birmingham City Council for the Ladywood ward. The committees on which he served reflect ...