"Save kitchen waste to feed the pigs!"

Wartime poster produced to encourage saving of kitchen waste to feed pigs. The poster was produced by the HMSO (Her Majesty's Stationery Office) an...

"The Dart" looks at the Ledsam Street dynamite conspiracy

More illustrations from "The Dart" concerning the dynamite factory in Ledsam Street. Top left, looking sombre, is the chief protagonist in the case...

"This Is Your Life" at Ladywood School

History teacher Paul Nagle receives the "This Is Your Life" treatment at Ladywood School. "bald headed" Damien Carless played the part of deputy he...

"When I moved in here..."

‘When I moved in here I had nine months to get everything I needed for a flat and a baby. It was an emergency move so I just took what I could. But...

"You want to watch how you knock on the doors you know..."

‘You want to watch how you knock on the doors you know. People’ll be flushing their stash down the bogs. I’ve just moved in a few days ago. It’s...

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 trad...

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 subsequen...

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...

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 3...

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 peopl...

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 p...

55A Lee Crescent

This is probably an old Victorian shed to the rear of 55A. As it was photographed by the Public Works dept it has almost certainly been demolished.