A curious tramcar fatality

A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 3rd October 1891. This cutting gives details of the inquest into the death of Walter, Charles Hewitt...

A Guard killed at Perry Barr

These newscuttings report the death and inquest of train guard Mark Robins. Robins was a guard on a L&NWR coal train to Perry Barr. He was direct...

A lady killed at Perry Barr

This newscutting from the G.H. Osborne collection deals with the death of Mrs Elizabeth Wells. Mrs Wells was the wife of Austin L. Wells of Warren...

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...

Child's Death at Perry Barr

A cutting from the Handsworth Herald relating to the death of two-month old Thomas Henry Adams of Well Head Lane. From the G.H. Osborne newcutti...

Fatal Tram Accident

There were a number of fatal accidents involving trams. This one was particularly poignant. Five year old Leonore Sandbrook and her brother had b...

Found Drowned

This newscutting reports on the inquest following the death of eighteen year old James Coope. Coope had lived with his aunt and uncle in Livingsto...

No Fireguards - Birmingham Children Burnt to Death

This newscutting deals with the inquests into the deaths of two children, one from Franchise Street, Perry Barr. The mother of two year old Kate W...

Painful drowning case at Perry Barr

A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail, 23rd November 1889. This gives an account of the inquest into the death of Elizabeth Richards of Haw...

Perry Barr Mystery - Child's Body in a Box

A newscutting from the Handsworth Herald reporting the discovery of the body of a baby in a cardboard box on the Aldridge Road. The child was not...

Sad Death at Perry Barr

This newscutting from the Handsworth Herald relates the death of Miss Emily Lindsay from Wellhead Lane. She had suffered from consumption for some...

Strange Death of a Prisoner at Perry Barr

This newscutting reports the death of a woman in the cells at Perry Barr police station. She was found lying across the railway line and taken to ...