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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 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.
Annual Fuchsia Show, St Thomas' School
Poster for the Annual Fuchsia Show held by the Birmingham and District Fuchsia Society at St Thomas' School on Great Colmore Street.
Avon House
Avon House, one of the three "Y block" flats built off Great Colmore Street as part of the Bath Row Development.
Before School
Three children, names unknown, waiting for building to commence on the "new" St Thomas's School in Great Colmore Street. The school had previously been located on the corner of Bath Row and Granville ...
Bell Barn Road
Taken during the redevelopment of Bell Barn Road. The park in the near distance looks complete but in the foreground some roadworks are being undertaken on the junction with Great Colmore Street.
Bell Barn Road and Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
Bell Barn Road and Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank, from a large collection of photographs taken by the Public Works Department. Presumably clearance has already started as part of the great post-war redevelopment ...
Building of the Y- Blocks
A rare photograph showing the Y-Block development under construction. In the foreground are the foundations for the small blocks of flats and in the background is Avon House. The development lies between ...
Building St Thomas's School
Two pupils of St Thomas's School on Granville Street photographed watching construction of the new school on Great Colmore Street.
Building the Etap Hotel
The hotel, at the Bristol Street end of great Colmore Street, was constructed in modular fashion. Each room being dropped into place and connected to the next. In the background are the lovely top floors ...
Chest in St Thomas's School
This chest stands outside the headteacher's office in St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street. Its history is unknown but it may have once been a chest used to store school documents. There is a possibility ...
Clematis along Great Colmore Street
This beautiful clematis attracts admiring glances every spring/ summer along Great Colmore Street. It is in fact grown over the fence of an address in Lytham Croft