A photograph of a church on the corner of two roads. A turreted tower dominates the centre of the photograph with the remainder of the church in the background. A road sign in front of the church in the bottom left. A large sign in the grounds of the church on the right of the photo. A lamppost on the far right of the photo.

#PhotoFriday is the Kings Norton United Reform church on the corner of Watford Road and Woodfall Road. The church was built in 1903 and demolished in 1953. Ref - WK/K5/335 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A group of four female figures dressed in food preparation uniform and hairnets. They are decorating a gathering of large chocolate Easter eggs with sugar based floral designs in the foreground of the photograph. More eggs waiting to be processed in the background of the photo.

#HappyEaster #Cadburys Women workers decorating easter eggs at the Cadbury Works, Bournville. Photographed here c. 1950s. Have you ever seen such large chocolate eggs? Ref – WK/B13/82 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

Photograph of the interior of an Eastern Orthodox Church. Iconography on the walls and ceilings of figures depicting biblical stories. The walls and ceiling are in vibrant block colours and the floor is white. A column on the left of the photograph and two in the centre - wooden chairs in front of both columns in the centre. Chairs placed around the windows on the left of the photograph. A balcony above the two columns in the centre. The balcony has four columns supporting an arched roof.

#PhotoFriday The interior of the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Holy Prince Lazar, Bournville. The church was built for political refugees from the former Yugoslavia after WW2. Reference - WK/B11/7825 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic #LazaricaChurch

Street scene. Large groups of people on the pavements on both sides of the street. People queuing for a bus in the bottom left of the photo. Accompanying signage informing where buses from the stop go to. Shop fronts and advertisements on both sides. Multi story buildings on either side of the road. The backs of vehicles are in the middle of the street including a male figure pulling a cart in the mid bottom right. Pedestrians are crossing the road.

#PhotoFriday This bustling scene of New Street taken not long after the end of WW2, c 1946. The city was slowly emerging from the war and there are a few echoes of the recent past in the photo– notice the uniformed figures? Ref: New Street 162 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

The interior of a reading room in a Victorian era library. The photograph is taken from a high point looking down at the room. A packed room of students sat at desks in the centre of the photograph. A bookcase on the far right and a much larger and expansive bookcase in the background separated from the reading room by a series of stone pillars. Two busts on either side of the entrance to the room in the back midground of the photo.

#PhotoFriday today is this view of studious readers in the Interior Reading Room in the Reference Library at the Central Library in Ratcliffe Place way back in April 1949. Imagine all the shushing back then. Ref – WK/B11/8530 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A photograph with carts in the left foreground used for transporting animals and other goods. Small groups of people gathered nearby. A row of shops in the right background. Brick properties in the left background. A tram on the roadway separating the two blocks of buildings.

#PhotoFriday today is the Old Smithfield Market, c. 1887 adjacent to the Bull Ring markets and St. Martin’s church. Ref - WK/B11/327 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A sepia toned photograph looking down on to a street scene. A wide open expanse in the foreground with pedestrians and lamp posts liberally dispersed. A large building in the mid background with the facia Corbett’s Temperance Hotel between the various rows of windows. An advertisement hoarding attached to the roof of the building. A street leading off on the left of the photo and another on the right.

#PhotoFriday today is Corbett’s Temperance Hotel, Paradise Street. Opened in 1842 by Joseph Corbett as a boarding and coffee house. The hotel was demolished c.1888—89 to make way for the building of the Post Office. Ref: WPS Large Views #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

An ice cream seller stands on the left of the photo close to his portable stall. Two young boys are resting on the stall and eating ice cream. In the background is a building with a large stone frontage. A small crowd of people are gathered on the top right of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday is this photograph of an ice cream seller in the Bull Ring in 1895. Arguably, one of the first fast foods of the time. Ref - Bull Ring 377 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

The front of a property - a grand Victorian townhouse. Two doors at ground level between a large window – a Juliette balcony above this and then another set of windows above this. Two further attic windows above this. Two ornate columns on either side of the property framing it from the properties on either side.

#PhotoFriday today is this 1902 photograph of the front view of a house on Bennetts Hill in which the artist Edward Burne Jones was born. Ref - WK/B11/216 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A street scene dominated by a building on the left of the photo with a neo – classical frontage including columns and a pediment. A union flag aloft the top of the building. Other buildings further along the street. Crowds of people on either side of the road.

#PhotoFriday today is this photo of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists when located on New Street. Photographed by Percy J. Deakin of 19 Digbeth at precisely 10.12 hours on 27 June 1902. Ref: WK/B11/113 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic @rbsagallery.bsky.social

A photograph looking down at an assemblage of Edwardian motor cars outside of a grand imposing Victorian building in the bottom left of the photograph. Figures are either in or standing by the cars and a large group of people are standing looking towards them in the right of the photograph. Another large imposing building in the top left of the photo with a large crowd gathered around.

#PhotoFriday is this 1906 photograph of motor cars taking up their assigned positions on Colmore Row before the start of the procession through the city to mark the 70th birthday of Joseph Chamberlain. Ref: WK/B11/20 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A photograph - in the centre, a group of figures in carts gathered around a Victorian streetlamp. A male figure to the left stands alone and looks towards the camera. A smaller group of people stand behind the group gathered around the post and look on. Buildings in the background - one has a large sign above its entrance indicating it is home to the Winter Gardens and exhibition hall.

#PhotoFriday is a view of street traders standing in the Old Square with the site of the new Winter Gardens and Exhibition Hall behind, c 1890s. Ref - WK/B11/27 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

Photo of the exterior of an ornate market stall selling sweets and pastries. Oak panelling front and lighting above the goods. A young male figure in late Victorian dress looks towards the camera from the entrance. Behind the stall is another selling bundles of fabric.

#PhotoFriday is this rather ‘sweet’ image of a young man on the lookout at a confectionary stall in the south avenue of the Market Hall. Ref - WK/B11/1206 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A street scene - a derelict piece of land. Disused and ramshackle buildings in the background with broken windows including a factory on the left and domestic housing on the right. Vehicles in the foreground including caravans. A gaggle of people gathered outside of the caravans.

#PhotoFriday today is this City Engineers’ photo of members of the traveller community at Bishop Street (Adj. No. 45) taken on 18 Aug 1955. Ref - BCC/1/AM/D/1/8/1, no.5 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic #GypsyTravellerM

The exterior of a public house, almost residential in appearance. The property is squeezed between the properties on either side, almost akin to a terraced house. The branches of a tree brushing against the pub in the far left of the photo. A late Victorian three storey property with a chimney in the top left of the photo - the top two tiers have a domesticated feel. The bottom tier of the property gives the feel of a public house with an oak panel front and tiny intricate pieces of stained glass. The name of the pub and brewery on a facia above the stained glass window. A large lamp protrudes from a Juliette style balcony above the facia.

#PhotoFriday today is The Victoria pub, Bristol street in 1964 prior to its demolition for a dual carriageway. Other pubs lost in the redevelopment included The Bell, Nottingham Arms, Red Cow and The Sun. Ref - WK/B11/ 5101 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A photograph of the exterior of a house. An opaque daguerreotype forming a direct mirror-like image. A Georgian style property with a canopied entrance. Two windows on ground level to the right of the photo and three on the upper level. A glasshouse in the far right of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday is this 1841 daguerreotype of Winson Green House by Elizabeth Stockdale Wilkinson. The house was home to Mr WG Alston who was an advocate of photography. This is reputed to be the earliest surviving photograph of Birmingham. Ref – WK/W16/141 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

The frontage of a Georgian property with a canopy over the front entrance in the top right of the photograph. This is joined to another part of the property by a less grand single tier brick walk through with a door and windows. A sign on the large property it links to with the word Office on it. Another building in the very top right of the photo with a large gate - the gate has the words London Oil Corporation on it.

#PhotoFriday today is Spring Hill House. Built for John Howard Galton in about 1760 – described at the time as a fine and large mansion of the late Georgian period. The house was used for various purposes throughout its time and fell into decline. Ref: WK/H10/31 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A street scene - a row of buildings on the left of the photo. A large group of people gathered outside a building in the bottom left of the photo. A couple of people gathered by the roadside slightly further up the street and stood by a horse and cart. The row of buildings is a block of properties at the junction of roads at the bottom and top left of the photograph. A young person’s head in the bottom left foreground of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of 43 Newhall Street taken at the junction with Bread Street, now in proximity to the junction with Cornwall Street. Ref: Newhall Street 15 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

An architectural model of a civic square - a collar of buildings to the sides and in the backdrop of the square. The buildings are Greco- Roman in style with columns in front of entrances and symmetrical windows. The large square in the centre of the model is occupied by a very tall thin column with a shape at its peak. The column is surround by herbaceous borders and trees. A small circular building in the bottom right of the photograph and a larger circular building with columns around its front in the bottom left of the photo.

#ModelOnATuesday. This week we’re veering slightly off the beaten track and bringing you this model of the Civic Centre on Broad Street planned after WW1. Baskerville House and the Hall of Memory, the only buildings still in place. Ref – WK/B11/6869 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A photograph of a street scene - a clocktower in the background. Two buildings on the right of the photograph – the building in the foreground is a public house - a sign for Ansell’s brewery above its entrance. A lone male figure stood in its doorway. The building behind is more austere - in the style of the high gothic revival of the nineteenth century. Pedestrians walk past.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of the Hope & Anchor pub on Edmund Street taken c 1960. When opened c1762, the pub was a two-story Georgian house. The building unfortunately no longer stands. Ref - WK/B11/4795 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A photograph of large imposing Victorian gothic building on a high street. The school is three storeys high. Pedestrians and vehicles outside in front of the building. Electric streetlamps hanging from cables in the top foreground of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday is this mid – 1930s photograph of the King Edward Grammar School in New Street, a year before it moved to Edgbaston. The building was demolished in 1937. Ref: WK/B11/5702 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic #KESBham

A photograph of a female figure sat at a stall. Her right arm is resting on the stall and the hand is touching her furrowed brow. She is wearing a long flowing shawl like garment with cowl resting on her head. Behind her, a crowd of people go on their way apart for a solitary male figure in the mid centre of the photograph who looks towards the camera.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of an ice cream seller, possibly of Italian heritage with hand on furrowed brow at her stall in Smithfield market, c 1901. Ref - MS 4557 Box 5 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

The exterior of an austere three storey building built in the late Victorian Gothic style. Above the first tier of the building is a facia with the words Public Library Reading Rooms written on it. A public notice between the two large windows at ground level relating to library regulations. A lamppost in the centre of the photograph in front of the building. Tram cable wires above the building in the top centre of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of Aston Cross Library in 1913. One of the Carnegie Libraries erected at the expense of Andrew Carnegie. Opened in October 1903, the library unfortunately closed in the 1990s. Ref: WK/A7/90 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic #Aston

Plumes of smoke in the top centre of the photograph wafting from the top of a Victorian Gothic building. The building has ornate Gothic style windows. Above the entrance is a sign indicating the building is the King’s Hall Market. A fireman’s ladder on the far left of the photograph. A large crowd of people gather in front of the building in the central foreground of the photograph. Another building on the far right of the photograph.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photo of a fire at the King’s Hall Market, Corporation Street in 1962. Originally a non – conformist church, it then became a cinema before conversion to a market hall in the 1920s. Ref – WK/B11/6404 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

Photograph looking down on to the centre of a village. Pedestrian islands in the centre of the photo with the island in the background housing a tram shelter. A tram on the far left of the photograph near to a public house with a sign for the New Inn hanging from a post outside. Houses in the background on the left. The right background is populated by shop fronts. Figures liberally dispersed across the photograph. A line of cars in the bottom foreground of the photograph.

#AcocksGreen #PhotoFriday this week takes us to this scene of Acocks Green village in 1932. A note on the back of the photograph states the photo was taken around the time the New Inn opened. Ref – WK/A1/12 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A flyover - one line of traffic on the left heading away from the camera and another line on the right heading towards. The construction of another roadway on the far right of the photograph. The background is occupied by a cityscape of tall and high-rise new buildings. Older buildings on either side of the photograph in the foreground.

#PhotoFriday this week is this photograph of the construction of Masshouse Circus in 1965. Notice the Beehive store in the top left of the photo. Ref - WK/B11/8910 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A resin cast public monument of a crowd of figures, three per line in different poses. The figure in the centre of the front row has his right hand raised and hand across his heart. Public buildings surround the monument including Baskerville House on the left and the Hall of Memory on the right. The old central library is in the background.

#PhotoFriday Does anyone remember the Forward statue on Centenary Square? It stood from June 1991 until 17 April 2003 when it was damaged by fire. Ref - WK/B11/8887 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

Photograph of a street scene. Large 1970s style of building, non - descript and predominantly concrete dominates the middle of the photograph. Facia on the top right of the building identifies this is the Silver Blades Ice Rink. Vehicles in front of the building and a street to the right of the building with cars parked along it

#SkateBham #PhotoFriday Anyone remember the Silver Blades Ice Rink on the corner of Hurst Street and Bromsgrove Street, pictured here in 1972. The rink is now closed. Ref - WK/B11/8920 #Libraryofbham #Brumpic #IceSkateBham

A photograph of a courtyard. A horse and cart with a young male figure leaning against the cart in the centre of the photograph. A wall on the far left. Behind the male figure is a building with a facia above the doorway reading W.E. Harris, Printer and Bookbinder. Sign in the bottom left window of the property reads Old Court House. Another sign just to the top of the doorway to the building reads Roxburgh & Co Tea Merchants.

#PhotoFriday The Old Court House on the High Street in 1900 when the building was occupied by Harris the Printer and Bookbinder. The court leet was formerly held here. Ref - Hight Street 5 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic

A street scene with the photograph looking down on to the street from above. A row of Georgian terrace buildings on the left. Zebra crossing and grassed areas in the mid centre. A grassed roundabout in the top centre of the photograph. Pedestrians and road bound vehicles occupying the top half of the photograph. A prominent building in the top right of the photo.

#PhotoFriday time travels back to 1958 at the junction between Easy Row and Broad Street with Suffolk Street straight ahead. Note the Georgian terrace houses on the left converted to office buildings. All the buildings in the photo no longer stand. Ref: WK/B11/8773 #LibraryofBham #Brumpic