60th anniversary of VE Day in Chamberlain Square : "George Formby" entertains
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.
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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 ...
Abandoned ARP shelter under George Road
Some of the wiring and cabling left behind at this former ARP shelter for World War II. The shelter is now used for storage by residents of the flats above.
Alfred Knight VC - the road naming in his honour
The padre says a few words before the unveiling of Alfred Knight Way by his family. Standing to the right is Alfred's grand-daughter Anne Walsh.
Alfred Knight Way
The family of the late Alfred Knight VC gathered by the road named in his honour. On 9th November they were present at the opening of this new road in the Park Central development of Birmingham. Knight ...
Alfred Smith - Grave at Keyhill Cemetery
Alfred Smith served with the RAF in World War Two. He was killed on 17th June 1941 and is buried at Keyhill Cemetery in Birmingham. Smith was an aircraftman second class in 218 squadron of the Royal Airforce ...
ARP Shelter toilets at George Road
The toilet cubicles in the shelter are between the main rooms. All of the doors have now gone but some of the pans and cisterns remain, one or two still being apparently useable.
ARP shelter under George Road
The former air-raid shelter consists of a maze of corridors and rooms, unused since the end of World War II. This is one of the corridors with the painted "no smoking" sign still in evidence on the wall....
Attwood Green Community Centre
The main doorway of the centre. Formerly home of the Midland Adult School Union the centre has since been demolished as part of the urban regeneration programme for Lee Bank.
Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre was formerly the Midland Adult School Union (MASU) building. It was taken over by Optima Community Association and used as a centre for all manner of community activities. It has ...
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 ...
Auchinleck at Five Ways
Closeup photograph of the head of the statue of Field Marshall Claude Auchinleck. The shopping centre was named in his honour at Five Ways. Auchinleck died in 1981 at Marrakech.
Autumn Leaves
St Catherine of Sienna Church looms behind the autumn leaves in Lee Bank.
Avon House
Avon House, one of the three "Y block" flats built off Great Colmore Street as part of the Bath Row Development.
Balcony on Attwood Green Community Centre
The Community Centre stood on Gaywood Croft off Cregoe Street in Lee Bank. From this balcony you could see over a large part of the redevelopment of the area - in particular the new park.
Belgians In Birmingham by Chris Upton
In the autumn of 1914, when thousands of British soldiers were learning a little French and setting off for Flanders, the Belgians were heading in the opposite direction. Unlike the many nations that ...
Bell Barn Shopping Centre
Located just off Cregoe Street, this is how it looked in August 2004. Left in business then were the Select and Save (visible to the left) and the chip shop to the right. The area was one of the last ...