Aerial view of Handsworth

Aerial view of Handsworth The cinema at Villa Cross can be seen in the centre of the picture. c1950

Al Sharpton, Political Activist

"Controversial black political activist and preacher. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton began preaching at the age of 4 and was ordained a minis...

College Road, Perry Barr

College Road, Perry Barr, seen on 27th May 1927 with a row of bungalows enjoying a pastoral setting. Magnification reveals that the building on the...

Grove Lane Baths: Main Entrance Interior

The inside of the main entrance to Grove Lane baths with the ticket office to the right hand side of the picture. The baths were opened on 28th Jan...

Hamstead Road Baptist Church, Handsworth

Hamstead Road Baptist Church, Handsworth. Erected in 1882-3 and designed by the architect John. P. Osborne. Note the storm damage to the spire

Handsworth Old Rectory (and Manor House) - Sites and Monuments Record

The site of the Manor House was "not improbably" that occupied by the old rectory, close to the church, now part of Victoria Park. Its moat could...

Handsworth Old Town Hall - Sites and Monuments Record

The original Town Hall is situated in Grove Lane, some 100 yds below the Grove Tavern. It is of plain domestic architecture of the sixteenth cent...

Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury

Houses owned and rented out by George Albert Asbury, owner of a General Store at 55 Key Hill, Hockley c1910

Island Road, Handsworth

Island Road, Handsworth. 7th January 1925

St Mary's Church, Handsworth

A view of the churchyard of St Mary's Church, the parish church of Handsworth, was originally built in the 12th century, but was completely restore...

Wood Lane, Handsworth

Wood Lane, Handsworth, the old cottages in Wood lane (slightly modernised) November 1981.

Wretham Road New Church

Wretham Road New Church. Erected by the Swedenborgians in 1879 at a cost of £11,500 in a Geometric Decorated Gothic style.