IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
High Street, SMETHWICK, B66 1DX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to High Street, B66 1DX by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Image Listing (109 Images Found)
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Billinghams Shoes, 22 High Street
Established 120 years ago, in 1890, P Billingham & Sons is an independent local shoe shop. There is a wide variety of businesses in Smethwick, including many run by members of the various local Asian communities, including at least one pub.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.02 miles
2
Terrace of local shops at 2-10 High Street
A fashion boutique, a fish and chip shop, another fashion store, a property letting agency and at the far end a travel agent, make up this terrace of shops. The reason most of them have the shutters up, is that they were photographed fairly early in the morning.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.02 miles
4
Gurdwara Baba Sang
A religious building of Sikh worship.
Image: © Stephen Rogerson
Taken: 16 Feb 2012
0.04 miles
5
26-50 High Street, Smethwick
This terrace of shops with living space above was built in 1904. The row of gable-ends facing the street and adorned with bargeboards makes a very striking show; the end houses at the street corners are canted (angled) with elaborate pediments topping the facades, and one just can be seen at the far left. See the Smethwick Town Centre Appraisal document at the Sandwell Council site https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/downloads/file/4061/smethwick_town_centre_character_appraisal .
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 15 Apr 2023
0.05 miles
6
The old White Lion
Taken during the demolition of one side of the road for the construction of the modern dual carriageway through Smethwick.
Image: © Patrick Mackie
Taken: Unknown
0.06 miles
7
Gurdwara Baba Sang Ji, Smethwick
This gurdwara or Sikh temple occupies a prominent site, fronting onto St Paul's Road at the corner with St Alban's Road. The building was constructed in 1910 as the Empire Theatre to designs by the local firm of G Bowden & Son. It operated as a cinema from 1924 to 1957; see the Cinema Treasures site http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/34483 . After a period as a DIY store it became a gurdwara. Since 2005 the facade has been much altered, the classical detail has been removed and the dome and cupolas added. The lean-to shelters along the side are a relic of the days when the cinema-going public queued here for admission; see the Smethwick Town Centre Appraisal document at the Sandwell Council site https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/downloads/file/4061/smethwick_town_centre_character_appraisal . For more on Sikhs in Smethwick see Image
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 15 Apr 2023
0.07 miles
8
Terraced housing on Dibble Road, Smethwick
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 11 Aug 2014
0.08 miles
9
Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line near Smethwick
Looking north-west towards Wolverhampton from near the Smethwick New Pumphouse on a dull and drizzly day.
This is the Birmingham Canal Navigations New Main Line, engineered by Thomas Telford and mostly completed 1824-1827. Brindley's 1772 (lowered in 1790) old main line is at the top of an embankment on the right.
Image: © Roger Kidd
Taken: 26 Aug 2010
0.08 miles
10
Telford's Birmingham Canal Navigation
The Birmingham Canal Navigation was cut by Thomas Telford at a lower level than the existing canal to avoid the Smethwick Summit.
Image: © Philip Halling
Taken: 14 Jul 2018
0.09 miles