Birmingham Collection (page 2)

Canal boat trips, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Bournville / Village 1905
Bournville Village, Birmingham: homes for Cadburys workers

Exterior view of the entrance to Villa Park football stadium, home to Aston Villa Football Club. 1st August 1969

Bardelys The Magnificent, by Hamilton and Sabatini
Bardelys The Magnificent, by Henry Hamilton and Rafael Sabatini, from Sabatinis novel (1906). First produced at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham, August 1910, then the Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue

Advert, Southern Railway Excursions
Advertisement for Southern Railway Excursions to Birmingham, Cambridge, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Rugby, Wolverhampton, etc, every Sunday from December to March

Warwickshire Cricket Club - 1888
Sketches at the County Ground, Edgbaston, Birmingham - the home of Warwickshire CC. The main pavilion is shown in the centre

General view of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (engraving)
KW1078128 General view of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: General view of Birmingham, West Midlands)

Grand Central Concourse, Birmingham New Street Station, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Advertising card for Job Wraggs Super Quality Soda Water
Advertising card for Job Wraggs (of Shirley, Birmingham) Super Quality Soda Water - being vigorously dispensed from a syphon. Date: early 1930s

Cadburys advertisement, 1954
Advert for the Birmingham confectionary firm, Cadburys showing a young couple taking a tour of the companys Factory in a Garden at Bournville

Poster advertising Palmer tyres of London, Glasgow, Birmingham, Coventry and Nottingham. A lady on a bicycle and a group of people in a car travel side by side

Bullring Shopping area, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Bull Statue, the Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Birmingham City Centre, England

Market at the Bull Ring
A street market at the Bull Ring, Birmingham

Birmingham Bull Ring
A busy scene in the shopping area of the Bull Ring complex, Birmingham, England

Birmingham Theatre 1805
Theatre at Birmingham

City Hall, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Webley & Scott, gun makers in Birmingham, West Midlands. Their original premises was in Weaman Street, Birmingham, until they moved to a modern factory in West Bromwich in 1958

David Bowie on stage at the Birmingham NEC during the first leg of his Sound and Vision Tour. Picture taken 19th March 1990

Old Map of Birmingham Surveyed in 1750 by Thomas Hanson
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Kings Norton Workhouse / Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham
An aerial view of Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham - the former Kings Norton Union workhouse and workhouse infirmary. The original workhouse building is at the left, just below centre

B. S. A. Military Pattern Air Rifles
B.S.A. Military Pattern Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910

B. S. A. Air Rifles, Birmingham Small Arms Company
B.S.A. Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910

American singer Neil Diamond in concert at the NEC Arena, Birmingham. 2nd July 1984

Birmingham City v Middlesbrough. Final score 1-0 to Birmingham City. FA Cup Quarter-final. Played at St Andrews Stadium. 8th March 1975

This old corner cafe in Aston, Birmingham, West Midlands, is still open for business, but behind it, 1971 is on the march and soon the little cafe will be swallowed up. 4th March 1971

In the office at Parkes Machine Tools Ltd; Mr Edwin Hallard (joint managing director), Miss Victoria Parkes (office junior), Mr Geoff Arnold (accounts)

Birmingham City FA Cup semi-finalists March 1951. Back row: Shaw, Dailey, Merrick, Atkins, Boyd, Badham, Green, Martin, Brocklebank (Manager). Front row: Stewart, Higgins, Trigg, Smith, Berry, Ferris

Birds Eye View of Birmingham In 1886
This is a striking panoramic view originally published as a supplement to The Graphic, September 4, 1886. There is an accompanying key block that can be used to identify 35 areas including streets

Old Map of Birmingham 1795 by C. Pye
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Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands, with a shop and Post Office on the corner of Earls Court Road. Date: circa 1900s

CM26 4246 The Italian Job, Bedford coach
Bedford SB Duple Bella Vega, The Italian Job, Bedford coach, a trbute on the Live Action Arena at the Autosport International Show

Birmingham Snow Hill Station, 1926
An interior shot of the rather glamorous refreshment rooms showing a decorative, Art Nouveau, window in the background

Richard Cadbury of Cadburys chocolate company
Richard Barrow Cadbury (1835-1899), second son of John Cadbury, founder of Cadburys chocolate company. circa 1890s

Dunkleys Rocking Horse
ROCKING HORSE by Dunkleys of Birmingham Date: 1889

Union Workhouse, Kings Norton, Worcestershire
Entrance to the Union workhouse on what is now Raddlebarn Road, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, south west of Birmingham. The building, designed by Edward Holmes, was opened in 1870

Autosport Show: Spearmint Rhino girls: Autosport Show, NEC, Birmingham, England, 12 January 2008
Spearmint Rhino girls. Autosport Show, NEC, Birmingham, England, 12 January 2008

Boxer, Jimmy Moran celebrates his Commonwealth Games gold medal with friends at the Bell Inn pub, Headless Cross, Redditch. Pictured with his mother Maureen. 3rd August 1986

Press day at the BMC works at Longbridge, Birmingham, West Midlands. Pictured, Patrick Edwards, sitting in the smallest of the BMC cars, leads the parade of new vehicles on show for the first time

Town Hall, Victoria Square, Birmingham, West Midlands, 11th September 1973

England, Birmingham, Edgbaston, Perretts Folly - built in 1758 One of the 2 towers - said to have been the inspiration for JRR Tolkiens The Two Towers - Part of the Lord of the Rings trilology

Scene in the Birmingham No Popery riots, 1868 (1906). Rioting broke out after a lecture by the anti-Catholic campaigner William Murphy. From Cassells History of England, Vol. VI

View of Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West Midlands
View of the Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. Date: circa 1905

Birmingham General Hospital
A view of Birmingham General Hospital, founded in 1779. The institution, which was also a teaching hospital, moved to the Steelhouse Lane premises shown here in 1897. Date: circa 1905

New Street Station, Birmingham Date: 1906

Winson Green Prison, Birmingham
The castle-like entrance to Winson Green Prison, Birmingham, built in 1849 as a local gaol for adult male offenders

Nettlefolds patent pointed screws, from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903

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