117 Great Colmore Street
Alfred Kilby's butcher's shop at 117 Great Colmore Street, decked out for Christmas. Although this was a butcher's shop for some years it only traded under Mr Kilby's name from 1895 to 1897, so the photograph ...
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 ...
35 Summer Road, Lee Bank
The name Mitchells & Butlers can be seen over the front of 35 Summer Road, Lee Bank, and indeed directories of the time list Mrs Doreen Taylor of 35 Summer Road as a beer retailer. The photograph was ...
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 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 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 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 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.T. Gittins and Son Ltd on Irving Street
This garage and car spares dealership was located at the Bristol Street end of Irving Street - just up from where the former Dome II nightclub now stands.
ABC Cinema - formerly The Bristol
The ABC Cinema in 1979 on the site of what is now MacDonalds drive-in restaurant at the junction of Lee Bank Middleway and the Bristol Road. Showing that day in 1979 were "Monty Python's Life Of Brian", ...
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 E. Hull, family butcher, Edgbaston
A 1935 advertisement for E. Hull, family butcher, of 102 Bell Barn Road, Edgbaston. Edgar Hull also had a shop at 168 Winson Green Road, but in 1939 he was not listed at either of these addresses and ...
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 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 ...
Advertisement for Myers, ladies' outfitters
This advertisement for the ladies' outfitters who simply called themselves Myers dates from 1935. Contemporary directories refer rather oddly to the proprietor as 'Myer Myers' but in the 1950s she is ...
Advertisement for S. Cawthorne, hatter and hosier, Sherlock Street, Lee Bankvert
Samuel Cawthorne set up shop as a hatter at 198 Sherlock Street in 1914 and later, as this advertisement shows, extended his range to cover most items of men's clothing. If the advertisement is to be ...