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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. ...

35 Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank

Although the original caption to this Public Works Department photograph calls it 35 Bell Barn Road, Lee Bank, the address does not appear in Kelly's Directory. However, when this photograph was taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

61 to 62 Great Colmore Street

Undated picture of numbers 61 to 62 Great Colmore Street. It probably dates from around 1960 when the Public Works Dept were photographing most of this area. These houses would have stood somewhere after ...

A. Andrew and Sons Undertakers - Bath Row

The company of A. Andrews occupied a site on Bath Row for decades. The firm occupied numbers 163 to 175 Bath Row and this stood at the junction of Bath Row with Islington Row. The current site of where ...

Advertisement for Leo A. Hunt, wireless engineer, Lee Bank

In the years before the television age Leo A. Hunt would have been the man you depended on 'for reliable radio'. Which makes it all the more curious that neither he nor his address appears in the Kelly's ...

Advertisement for Wathes, Cattell and Gurden, Birmingham

Undated advertisement for Wathes, Cattell & Gurden Ltd, dairymen, of Nova Scotia Street, Ladywood. The advertisement, featuring their trade name, 'Wacaden', has the look of the 1950s about it and the ...

Adverts from St Thomas's Church Magazine

The church magazine contained many adverts each month from local retailers. Included here are the following: E. Bowkett - Baker and Confectioner of Broad Street, Richard Broomfield - Tailor of Holloway ...

Aerial view of Bristol Street area

This view in 1965 has a few notable landmarks. To the bottom left is the circular dome of St Catherine of Sienna Church. On Bristol Street can be seen the Broadway (later Gala/ Cinephone) Cinema next ...

Aerial view of central Lee Bank

This view shows two obvious landmarks from the air - the park to the left and the Holloway Head playing fields to the middle top. Other landmarks are visible too such as St Thomas's Church Tower on Bath ...

Aerial view of Park Central

This view shows the construction site just off to the left of Bath Row. The tower block to the middle left is Audleigh House. To the bottom right is St Thomas's Church Tower. It has survived being hit ...

Aerial view of Woodview

This rare aerial view is from 1967. The tall tower block at the middle top of the photograph is Haddon Tower. To the right of it is St Luke's Church on Bristol Street. Following the road down from St ...

Aerial view towards Lee Bank and Bristol Street

At the bottom of the view is the Benmore Estate with the Woodview area to the left. Above Woodview to the middle left is Lee Bank - the new park area and Y Block flats being instantly recognisable.

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 ...

Attwood Green Community Centre, Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street

This was the main staircase at the centre. The sun was saved after the building was cleared for demolition and is now on a wall of the new community flat at 1 Nash House. The handprints just visible to ...

Audio Files: Fred and Pat Meads remember

Author Jackie Gay (left) met up with local residents Pat and Fred Meads. Jackie interviewed the couple, talking about their lives in the area. The photograph was taken by Vanley Burke. In the streaming ...

Audleigh House and the park construction site

View of the area scheduled for West Park and, in the distance, Audleigh House. Behind Audleigh are the houses lining Lee Bank Middleway.