A lamp for Gas Hall.

lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece wi...

A lamp for Gas Hall.

lamp made for an exhibition at Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, pre- 2002. The Handsworth Artist, Roy Douglas, is working on the piece wi...

A lost Street Piano

A newspaper cutting from the "Birmingham Mail",19th June 1897. This is a short article about an abandoned "street piano" that the police confisca...

A Perry Barr Divorce Suit - Assaulting a Wife with a Turkey

This newscutting reports on a divorce suit brought by Agnes Mary Barnes against her husband Frederick James Barnes, a commercial traveller. It was...

A Rhubarb Hoax in Handsworth

A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth News" June 30th 1888. This cutting gives an account of a practical Joke played on a Mr Tomlin, who owned ...

A Runaway Horse

A newspaper cutting from the "Mercury" June 1906.This sketch is taken from the G.H. Osborne Newscuttings collection. A short article in the Handswo...

A Skeleton at Handsworth

A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 12th November 1892. A short article which gives an account of the discovery of a human skeleton ...

A Survey of the Township of Handsworth, 1794

Extract from Vestry Minutes of St Mary's Church, Handsworth. "At a Vestry Meeting held in Handsworth Church on the 22nd April 1794. It was resolve...

A Tale of Starvation

A newspaper cutting from the Handsworth Herald, May 13th 1905. This is a report on the discovery of a semi-concious man being found lying in Rocky ...

A Warning

At this date there were a large number of complaints about the quality of the tram service from Perry Barr into Birmingham. This cutting from the ...

A woman drowned at Perry Barr

A newspaper cutting taken from the Sutton Coldfield and Erdington Times November,22nd 1889. This is a brief report following the discovery of a wo...

A Woman's Remarkable Leap into Canal

Maud Brotherton threw herself from Tower Hill Bridge into the Walsall Canal which was suggested to be a distance of sixty feet into a six foot deep...