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 ...

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 t...

A horse sale in the Horse Fair

The Horse Fair is located off the island at the end of SmallBrook Queensway and it runs into Bristol Street. In the later years of the nineteenth a...

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 ...

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 ...

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 unkno...

A plant on Ryland Road - by year five at Woodview School

This is a unknown plant on Ryland Road.

A Shelter That Collapsed

This story is from the Birmingham Despatch about the collapse of an air-raid shelter in Reservoir Road. The shelter was being built for members of ...

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 200...

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...

A visit to the Reservoir

This leaflet extolling the virtues of Edgbaston Reservoir is in a scrapbook covering the early 1920's. is is the "outside" of the leaflet with pict...

A. Andrew and Sons Undertakers - Bath Row

The company of A. Andrews occupied a site on Bath Row for decades. The firm occupied numbers 163 to 175 Bath Row and this stood at the junction of ...