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The Making of Gilt & Enamel Equipage (c. 1760s)
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Equipage with egg-shaped containers and etui, c. 1760s. Wolverhampton Museum Collection. A previous post ( here ) explored eighteenth-centu...
Tour of Kings Norton & Northfield: From Rowheath Farm to Rowheath Pavilion
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Rowheath Farm, c. 1900. Held at Birmingham Archive.
Tour of Kings Norton & Northfield: History of Rowheath Playing Fields & the Pavilion
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An undated picture postcard of 'A CORNER OF THE RECREATION GROUNDS AT ROWHEATH, BOURNVILLE'. Probably dating from the 1940s or 195...
Tour of Kings Norton & Northfield: The Bournville Lido (at Rowheath)
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Rowheath Pavilion and Bournville Lido at the far right, probably 1940s or 1950s.
Tour of Kings Norton & Northfield: The Grigg Family at Rowheath Farm
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William Grigg outside Rowheath Farm, early 1900s. With thanks to a descendant of the Grigg family.
The Absent City Nᵒ.1: Grosvenor House by Cotton, Ballard & Blow (New Street & Bennetts Hill, 1951-3)
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Grosvenor House. A rainy day in June 2012. On the west corner of New Street and Bennett's Hill stands Grosvenor House, built in the earl...
Tour of Kings Norton & Northfield: Middleton Hall and the Manor of Middleton
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Middleton Hall stood on the corner of - what is now - Woodlands Park Road and Bunbury Road, its land being the site now taken up by Redmead ...
Paper Remnants Nᵒ.12: The Town Machine (Snow Hill)
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Held at Birmingham Archive.
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.10: Chaucer's Head Bookshop (New Street, c. 1870s)
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Chaucer's Head bookshop at 74 New Street, c. 1870s. Held at Birmingham Archive @ Library of Birmingham. See more of the Victorian Photo ...
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.9: Looking Through Windows - Ornaments & Things Inside (Part Four)
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The last Looking Through Windows ( here , here & here ) posts explored 'Greenery in the "Slums"'; and showed that...
Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.61: A Regency Stay at the Hen and Chickens Hotel (New Street)
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The Hen and Chicken's on New Street, with King Edward's school to the right, c. 1808. Coaches would enter the rear stables through...
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.8: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part Three)
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Part three (of three parts) of Looking Through Windows (Greenery) . See part one, here and part two, here . Please contact to use these...
Paper Remnants Nᵒ.11: Billinge & Edwards Tool Makers on Snow Hill (c. 1810)
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Trade card for Billinge & Edwards on Snow Hill, c. 1810. Engraved by Cottrell. Held at Yale Center for British Art . B1978.43.956.
Catherine Hutton's Poem on Love & a Cosy Cottage
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Held at Birmingham Archive in the Hutton Collection. A watercolour of a small cottage accompanied by a five verse poem painted and written...
Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.60: Turner's Brass Houses (Coleshill Street, c. 1740)
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Interior Mr. Turner's Brass Works from R. R. Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755 . Reinhold Rücker Angerstein was a Swe...
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.7: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part Two)
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Part two (of three parts) of Looking Through Windows (Greenery) . See part one, here . Please contact to use these cropped images in this ...
Tour of Lost Birmingham Nᵒ.59: St. Martin's Parsonage (Smallbrook Street)
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St. Martin's Parsonage, from a drawing by David Cox and engraved by William Radcliffe, published 25 March 1827. Hand coloured later. St....
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.6: Looking Through Windows - Greenery in the "Slums" (Part One)
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Original full photograph of 'slum housing', back of 52 & 54 Midland Street, late 1800s. During the late Victorian period many of...
Paper Remnants Nᵒ.10: G. Hougton & Son "Foremost High Class Gent's Hosier's" (New Street, 1899)
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G. Houghton & Son on Birmingham's New Street, 1899. Printed by W. B. Hill & Co. See all Paper Remnants .
Victorian Photo Album Nᵒ.5: Monumental Encounters - Framing the Theatre Royal (New Street from Bennetts Hill)
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Demolition of the Theatre Royal in 1901. Held at Birmingham Archive. Towns have always been gathering points, and anciently the market was a...
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