The Great Train Robbery: aftermath & reportage, 1963" The most daring and fruitful mail robbery in English History" : a page from The Illustrated London News, detailing the aftermath of the Great Train Robbery of 8th August 1963
Advert for the Palais de Danse, Birmingham, 1921 Date: 1921
Cadburys advertisement, 1954Advert for the Birmingham confectionary firm, Cadburys showing a young couple taking a tour of the companys Factory in a Garden at Bournville
Spaghetti JunctionSPAGHETTI JUNCTION Aerial view of the famous tangle of roads known collectively as " Spaghetti Junction", Birmingham, England. Date: 1970s
Poster advertising Bernard Weatherill Ltd, civil and sporting tailors of Conduit Street and Cannon Street, London. A foxhunting scene on the village green is depicted
Birmingham New StreetView of New Street
New University, Selly Oak, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. Date: circa 1910s
Norton Motorbike, winner of 28 TT RacesNorton Motorbike - winner of 28 TT Races, September 1952. 1952
The Gullet, Stafford Street, BirminghamUnder the Artisans and Labourers dwellings Improvement Act, 1875, slum areas like the gullet were cleared and improved. Date: 16 December 1876
Lunar SocietyThe Lunar Society of Birmingham sought to improve society using science; its members included Priestley, Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, Herschel, and Watt
Birmingham Bull RingThe old Bull Ring Centre, a notorious symbol of post World War Two modernism, now demolished. Completed in 1964; Britains first multi-storey fully enclosed shopping centre
Advert, Gaskell & Chambers Ltd, Bar FittersAdvert for Gaskell & Chambers Ltd (incorporated with Yates & Greenways), Bar Fitters, Manufacturers of Beer Engines and Hotel Bar Requisites, Counters, Back Fittings, Seating
Entrance to Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands. Date: circa 1908
Western Airways Ltd PosterPoster, Norman Edgar Western Airways Ltd, Bristol to Cardiff Air Express, 15 minutes, 9 shillings and sixpence single fare
Railway Air Services PosterRailway Air Services (RAS) Poster, serving Plymouth, Teignmouth, Cardiff, Birmingham and Liverpool, Cowes (Isle of Wight), Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham, London (Croydon) and Isle of Wight
Mens Pavilion & Recreation Grounds, Bournville, Birmingham, England - part of the model community set up around the Cadburys Cocoa Factory. Cricket being played at the Cadbury Sports Club. Date: 1910
Cover design, Western Airways timetableCover design, Western Airways summer timetable, showing a map with destinations: Manchester, Birmingham, Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, Weston, Barnstaple, Newquay and Penzance. 1939
Highcroft Hall Hospital, Erdington, BirminghamAn aerial view of Highcroft Hall Hospital on Slade Road, Erdington, Birmingham. The hospital was originally opened in around 1870 as the Aston Union workhouse
Incorporation Workhouse, Birmingham, West MidlandsAerial view of the Birmingham Incorporation (later Union) Workhouse, opened in 1852 on Western Road, Birmingham. The workhouse, designed by J.J
Poster advertising Union Castle Mail Steamship CompanyPoster advertising the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited, South African Royal Mail Service. Donald Currie & Co, Managers
Aston Villa F. C in 1894Team photograph of Aston Villa in First Division champions in 1894. Formed in 1874 by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Aston, Birmingham
Bournville / Village 1905Bournville Village, Birmingham: homes for Cadburys workers
Toulouse geese with dewlap, cock and hen. Oie de Toulouse a bavette, Anser anser domesticus. Bred by James Watts, winners of five first prizes
Silver spangled Hamburgh cock and hen, Henry Beldons pair, Cup at Allerton 1871, Hen first at Birmingham 1871, and cup at Bristol 1872
Warwickshire Cricket Club - 1888Sketches at the County Ground, Edgbaston, Birmingham - the home of Warwickshire CC. The main pavilion is shown in the centre
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
Gathering of Unions / 1832THE GATHERING OF THE UNIONS Three meetings organised by the Birmingham Political Union, held at New Hall Hill during May, maintain the pressure for electoral reform
Advert, Southern Railway ExcursionsAdvertisement for Southern Railway Excursions to Birmingham, Cambridge, Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, Rugby, Wolverhampton, etc, every Sunday from December to March
Advertising card for Job Wraggs Super Quality Soda WaterAdvertising card for Job Wraggs (of Shirley, Birmingham) Super Quality Soda Water - being vigorously dispensed from a syphon. Date: early 1930s
Cardinal Newman Lying in StateThe late Cardinal Newman, lying in state in the chapel of the Oratory, Birmingham. John Henry Newman (1801-1890) converted to Catholicism in October 1845 and became a cardinal in May 1879
Market at the Bull RingA street market at the Bull Ring, Birmingham
Birmingham Theatre 1805Theatre at Birmingham
City Hall, Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Date: circa 1910s
Kings Norton Workhouse / Selly Oak Hospital, BirminghamAn 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 RiflesB.S.A. Military Pattern Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910
B. S. A. Air Rifles, Birmingham Small Arms CompanyB.S.A. Air Rifles, The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited Date: circa 1910
Sir Richard Tangye, Birmingham engineering firmSir Richard Tangye, Head of the famous Birmingham engineering firm. late 19th century
Court Oak Road, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands, with a shop and Post Office on the corner of Earls Court Road. Date: circa 1900s
Richard Cadbury of Cadburys chocolate companyRichard Barrow Cadbury (1835-1899), second son of John Cadbury, founder of Cadburys chocolate company. circa 1890s
Birmingham Road, Blakedown, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Date: 1957
View of Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West MidlandsView of the Bull Ring Market, Birmingham, West Midlands, UK. Date: circa 1905
Birmingham General HospitalA 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
Nettlefolds patent pointed screws, from Verity Electrical Supplies, Aston, Birmingham. 1903
The Immortal Hour, by Rutland Boughton, BirminghamThe Immortal Hour, music drama by Rutland Boughton from the play by Fiona MacLeod, produced by Barry V Jackson, at the Repertory Theatre, Station Street, Birmingham. circa 1921
Stonehouse Lane, California, near Bartley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands, with a row of houses on the left. Date: circa 1930
War Lane and Victoria Road, Harborne, Birmingham, West Midlands. Date: circa 1908
Production of Gounods Faust by Carl Rosa Opera CompanyCharacters from Charles Gounods opera Faust in a touring production by the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Seen here are Charles Manners as Bertram, the Irish tenor Barton McGuckin as Faust
