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, ...
Advert for the Palais De Danse, Monument Road
Advert for the Palais - Dancing Deluxe!
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 ...
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 ...
Adverts from the war years in The Oratory church magazine
A double page spread of adverts from the magazine. they are easier to read by using the "zoomify" tab.
Relevant to the area of this website are the following: Hunts Garage Ltd of 197-199 Hagley Road. ...
Aerial view of the Palais De Danse
The Palais De Danse was located on Monument Road in Ladywood. It was a place which held happy memories for thousands of Ladywood residents over the decades.
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 ...
Anderton Street
Norman Bartlam writes that: This picture and others like it filled the pages of the local press as a prelude to a visit to the area by Housing Minister Richard Crossman. After the ministerial visit, which ...
Anderton Street
Josephine Codling lived at 115 Anderton Street. She is seen here holding her son Ricky and (on the right) her friend's son David Bannister.
Anderton Street celebrates
The residents are gathered to celebrate the coronation of George VI and Queen Elizabeth. The boy on the right in the white peaked cap is Ernie Pearce. Leslie Checkley, who donated the photograph, recalled ...
Anderton Street Coronation celebrations
Street party celebrating the coronation of George VI on May 12th 1937 at Westminster Abbey. This photograph was taken in the yard of 2 back Anderton Street.
Anderton Street Recreation Ground
Taken circa 1955. The two little boys are Ray and Graham Usher.
Baldwin And Sons Ltd, Morville Street, Ladywood
This article is from the "Brew 'Us" Bugle concerning the plans for the former Works on Morville Street.
"A piece of Ladywood's history is disappearing from the skyline. The demolition men have moved ...
Beach Street - former neighbours
Two former next-door neighbours were reunited after meeting up again following the launch of the book "Ladywood Revisited". Rita Hunt, nee Hollins, and June Daniels, nee Spencer, with the book, lost touch ...
Birmingham City Mission, Lee Bank
An atmospheric photograph, taken in November 1992, shows the Birmingham City Mission at 145 Granville Street, Lee Bank. In the background is the distinctive shape of St Thomas' Church in Bath Row, or ...
Children and staff from The Oratory School at St John's Church
An exhibition was held at St John's Church in Ladywood to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Local schools attended, along with a re-enactment group who dressed in civilian ...
Children from St George's School celebrate at St John's Church
The celebrations were for the 60th anniversary of the end of World War Two, an exhibition put on by Norman Bartlam and Eileen Doyle of the Education Housing Initiative at Birmingham City Council.