Boy selling newspapers with a blind man on the corner of New Street and Worcester Street by Thomas Clark

Boy with hoop at Calthorpe Park

In the 19th century public parks were introduced to provide the poor and working classes with healthier ways to spend their leisure hours. The land...

Boys in Calthorpe Park

This photograph shows a group of boys in Calthorpe Park. Their clothing suggests that they are from working-class or lower middle-class backgrounds...

Brighter Birmingham Programmes

In common with other cities and towns in Britain and as promoted by the government, Birmingham City Council organised a variety of events during th...

BSA Ladies' Bicycle

Tight controls on cycling were imposed by Birmingham’s Parks Committee from the earliest days of the activity. In the 1870s, before the invention o...

Cadbury advertisement: Something Like a Present

This window bill is part of a bound volume of advertisements and other marketing paraphernalia produced by Cadbury at their Bournville Works.

Cadbury advertisement: Testing Room at Bournville

Testing Room at Bournville was one of a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 1910. Each advertisement ...

Cadbury advertisement: The Cricket Pavilion at Bournville

‘“All work no play” is not the rule in the Factory in a Garden at Bournville.’ The working and leisure environments of the working classes were ...

Cadbury advertisement: This is a Bournville Workroom

Bournville Works and village was a social and industrial experiment devised by George and Richard Cadbury that was made possible by the relocation ...

Cadbury advertisement: This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds

This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds was one a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 191...

Cadbury advertisement: This is Bournville

This advertisement is contained within a bound volume of press pulls produced between 1910 and 1913. This is Bournville was published in Nov...

Cadbury Barges

Frank Newbould’s picture unites the corporate Cadbury view of the ‘factory in a garden’ with a ‘Roses and Castles’ folk image of