The Grand Picture Palace, Soho Road, Handsworth in 1924

Harold Macmillan visits Sutton Park where the World Scout Jamboree was staged in 1957.

The paddling pool in Cannon Hill Park in August 1955

Anthony Andrews, Cliff Richard and Hugh Griffiths reading the script before filming a scene from "Take Me High" in Shelswell Park. The film which was the last film role for Cliff Richard was shot in and around Birmingham and the Midlands in June 1973

Cliff Richard and Anthony Andrews seen here relaxing between takes on location filming for "Take Me High" in Shelswell Park. The film which was the last film role for Cliff Richard was shot in and around Birmingham and the Midlands in June 1973

The New Street offices of the Birmingham Post & Mail. Thoughout the election day of 1955 crowds of shoppers and city workers watched the progress of election results displayed outside the building.

Navvies laying water piples in Ann Street, Birmingham, in 1873, before the costruction of the Council House, which was started the following year.

The Mermaid pub, at the junction of stratford Road and Warwick Road in Sparkhill in 1873.

The River Rea floods in 1924, leaving St John's Road underwater.