The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce

‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, ...

Analysis of Water from Gloster Cottage, 30 Metchley Lane

The Calthorpe Estate was still being developed during the 1880s as a comfortable retreat for the wealthy; but within its boundaries were many farm...

Birmingham City Council Improvement Committee Minutes

The appointment of the Improvement Committee in July 1875 marked the earliest initiative by the City Council to tackle Birmingham’s slums. The orig...

Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt

Black and white photographic print by Bill Brandt depicting family sat in garden of a house on the Weoley Castle Estate.

Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt

This photograph was taken by a London-based photographer called Bill Brandt, forming part of an album in the Bournville Village Trust archive that ...

Boy with sibling, London, by Nick Hedges

Hedges tried to capture the human face of homelessness. This photograph shows that positive family relationships existed despite the difficult cond...

Drawing of a Middlemore Girl

As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine: ‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman wh...

Floor tiles from 'Longworth', Edgbaston

These floor tiles, from 24 Priory Road, were rescued from the home of John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post from 1862 to ...

Gas Wash Boiler

Example of the type of modern labour-saving household applicance often found in new municipal homes during the 1930s.

'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin

Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her pare...

'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie

Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841). ‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together...

Handmade admission ticket to ‘The Consul’s Will’

Arthur Wallis (1874-1933), wrote under the pseudonym P. Bentley and produced scripts, advertising posters, admission tickets and ‘quotes from the c...