Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes

The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applicat...

Jacob Jacobs

Image: Jacob Jacobs. Birmingham Faces and Places, Vol 4. Local Studies and History.

James Bissett ( 1762?- 1832)

Submitted by Mike Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage James Bisset was born in the city of Perth, Scotland, around the year 1762. Not a gr...

Oscar Deutsch and The Odeon Cinema

In the twentieth century, Jews prided themselves on being both 'Jewish' and 'English'. Leaders of the Hebrew Congregation of Birmingham such as Osc...

'The Froggery'

A Trade Directory of Birmingham (1775). This entry in Birmingham’s very first 'Trade Directory' (1775) tells us about some of the early occupati...

Vittoria Street