Aerial photograph of Handsworth Cemetery and Golf Course
A 1955 aerial photograph covering the area; road names, prominent buildings and place names have been overlaid in white to aid recognition. Also visible to the bottom of the photograph are Camp Lane and ...
Aerial photograph of the College Road area north of Witton Cemetery
A 1955 aerial photograph covering the area; road names, prominent buildings and place names have been overlaid in white to aid recognition.
African Liberation Day 1979, Handsworth Park
Crowd at African Liberation Day. This is one of Vanley's most famous images. Many people from the community were present that day, and many claim to be able to see themselves in the picture.
Boys playing marbles in Handsworth Park
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, in 1908. This is the site where Handsworth Cemetery was laid out, opening the following year.
Camp Lane, Handsworth
Camp Lane, Handsworth, looking north-east towards the bottom of the hill. The site of the new cemetery is on the left of the photograph. The poster on the tree to the left mentions the site development ...
Children Playing
Children playing on trampolines at a fun day at the Mohammed Ali Centre in Hockley
Follett Osler family grave at Key Hill Cemetery
Osler Street is named after the family buried at this grave at the General Cemetery - known as Key Hill.
Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903) built up the family glass firm, which in 1851 took prime position ...
Funeral
Laying wreaths at bus drivers funeral.
Funeral
Funeral at Handsworth Cemetery
Funeral of a Bus Driver
Carrying the coffin at a bus drivers funeral
Funeral of a Bus Driver, Handsworth Cemetry
Funeral of Chief Superintendent Tozer, Edgbaston
The funeral cortege of Chief Superintendent Alfred Tozer of the Birmingham Fire Brigade on 28 April 1906. Supt Tozer, whose father and grandfather had been firemen before him, came to Birmingham in 1879 ...
Funeral of Private Harold Hackett (1435, Royal Warwickshire Regiment)
The funeral cortege of Private Harold Hackett who served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was 26 years old and died at Eastbourne of wounds recieved while on service in France. The ...
Funeral, Handsworth Cemetry
Girls Playing in Grass
Doctor Winkley in association with some other teachers had access to a property near Tamworth, where students could go to escape from the 'concrete jungle'. One of the girls in the photograph returned ...
Grave of Bertram Evelyn and William Joseph Clibbery at Keyhill Cemetery
The two Clibbery brothers are buried here in Keyhill Cemetery. Part of the monument is now missing as there is no mention of Bertram's name. His details have been established from his death date and surname. ...
Gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery
The disused cemetery stands next to the railway line which at one time threatened the site. The walls of the cemtetery have a slight historical interest as there is now so little in the immediate area ...