A Dance at The Tower Ballroom
Poster for a Dance for the City of Birmingham Municipal Officers' Guild held at the Tower Ballroom, Edgbaston Reservoir. Dancing was to be from 8 till one for the princely sum of three and six for a pair ...
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 lifetime of work - a conversation with Bill Landon of Ladywood
In December 1927 the Crown Cinema opened on Icknield Port Road. One of the youngsters who visited it was Bill Landon of Steward Street. Little did he know he would still be visiting the building over ...
A natter with the blowks and wenches of Ladywood
(from Issue One of the Ladywood Magazine - the Brew 'Us Bugle)
In December Carrie Coles celebrates her 90th birthday. She’ll have many memories to recall and if she needs help she can call on her sisters, ...
A pint in the Woodman
This picture, by Lewis Green, was taken in The Woodman pub which used to stand on Cregoe Street until 2005. The two people in the picture are unknown but at least one local resident remembers the gentleman ...
A plant on Ryland Road - by year five at Woodview School
This is a unknown plant on Ryland Road.
A Shelter That Collapsed
This story is from the Birmingham Despatch about the collapse of an air-raid shelter in Reservoir Road. The shelter was being built for members of the Mount Pleasant Club. One person was killed - Evan ...
A tour around Attwood Green Community Centre
Formerly the Midland Adult School Union (MASU) building the centre was kept going by Optima Community Association. It was finally demolished in 2005 as part of the Attwood Green redevelopment.
This ...
A tour round a public ARP shelter - sixty years on
During the Second World War air-raid shelters were located in people's gardens but there were also many public shelters too, capable of coping with many people at a time. Some of the back-garden Anderson ...
A visit to the Reservoir
This leaflet extolling the virtues of Edgbaston Reservoir is in a scrapbook covering the early 1920's. is is the "outside" of the leaflet with pictures covering the attractions including swimming,rowing ...
A. Cohen at Singers' Hill
This picture was taken during the Feast of Tabernacles in September 1915 at Singers Hill Synagogue. This is the Reverend A. Cohen entering the Succoth. The image is from Picture World newspaper.
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.
Abraham Follett and Mary Osler
This portrait was taken on the couple's sixtieth wedding anniversary. The studio was H.Whitlock at number 11 on New Street. Follett Osler was 84 and Mary 86.
Abraham (1808-1903) built up the family ...
Advert for the Palais De Danse, Monument Road
Advert for the Palais - Dancing Deluxe!
Advert for Wilmot Breedon from The Despatch
This advert from 1958 sought workers to fill the following positions in the Gas Turbine Production Division: Production Grinders, Detail Fitters and Model Makers, and Toolmakers. The comapny were based ...
Advertisement for C.H. Billington, gasfitter
In this 1935 advertisement C.H. Billington of 173 Sherlock Street, describes himself as a plumber, gasfitter and electrical engineer, as well as a specialist in central heating. The potential customer ...
Advertisement for Thomas Sanders Ltd., brassfounders, of St Mary Street, LadywoodSanders Ltd
Thomas Sanders Ltd manufactured brass wares for the building and furnishing trades and first turn up at 13 St Mary Street, Ladywood, in the 1870s. As one of the traditional metalworking industries of ...
Advertisement for W.H. Askin, florist, Birmingham
This advertisement for W.H. Askin, of 163 Gooch Street, Birmingham, dates from 1935. He describes himself as a nurseryman and florist, although the former term now seems slightly incongruous for a road ...