Adventure Playgrounds

Danish landscape architects and town planners became interested in the concept of adventure playgrounds, also known as 'junk playgrounds', in the 1...

Advertisement for the Women's Social and Political Union

‘The Rights of Woman’, what are they? The right her husband to obey, The right to show forth all her life How proud she is to be a wife! The ...

Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries

Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the...

Advertisements in Edgbastonia Magazine

This page from Edgbastonia offers clothing from head to toe: milliners Emilie Maison Francaise, ladies tailor Robert Speerli and Hodges boot...

Aerial View of Allen's Cross, Northfield

W. Edwards Ltd built the Allen’s Cross estate for Birmingham Corporation in the early 1930s. This photograph was commissioned from Midland Air Serv...

African Barkcloth Beater

This barkcloth beater, made from wood and horn, was collected in Africa by the traveller and diarist Helen Caddick, who lived in York Road, Edgbast...

Ahmed's Journey

"My name is Ahmed Mirreh. I was born in Khamis Mashed in Saudi Arabia. I stayed there for 6 years. In 1989 civil war was in Somalia. My parents em...

Allenscroft Road Working Boys' Home, Kings Heath

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many new children's homes were opened in Birmingham and several of these were intended to be homes for working c...

Alma Terrace, Highgate

Despite massive municipal building schemes of the inter-war years, the housing crisis was more pressing in Birmingham in 1945 than 1918. Recent hou...

Alvechurch Road Children's Home, Longbridge

Alvechurch Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built West Heath housing estate. The hom...

Amazulu

Amazulu, photographed in Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.

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...