Edgbaston Children's Home

This opened as a children’s home in 1965. It was not purpose-built but a modified, existing house in Edgbaston. It was thought that the purchase of...

Edgbaston with Tower of Edgbaston Church

This drawing shows how rural Edgbaston was in the mid-nineteenth century. The tower of Edgbaston Old Church is visible in the background.

Extract from Edgbastonia, 1902

This is an example of the feature headers that were introduced in Edgbastonia in the early years of the twentieth century. They show a stron...

Extract from Calthorpe Estate Minutes

In the Minutes of the Calthorpe Estate, we find glimpses of the daily lives of individuals. John Thorneycroft rented Metchley Farm - a considerable...

Fancy Dress Costume worn by Florence Barrow

This fancy dress costume was worn by Florence Barrow, aged ten, in 1886 for the Lord Mayor's Children's Party. Florence was the daughter of Richar...

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 ...

Homes for Birmingham: the Communist Party Plan

At the end of the Second World War public housing had become an increasingly contentious political issue. Both mainstream and fringe parties printe...

Ice skating at Cannon Hill Park

Illuminated Address presented to Samuel Walliker

The people shown enjoying the fresh air in this painting are benefiting from the philanthropy of a man who made his home in Birmingham only in the ...

Illuminated Address presented to Samuel Walliker

This elaborate illuminated address was presented to Samuel Walliker, Postmaster of Birmingham, in 1891. It congratulates him on his good works on b...

Independent Labour Party Minutes

This is a page from the 1914-1921 minute books of the Birmingham Branch of the Independent Labour Party, which was chaired for most of the First Wo...

Invitation to the Opening of Calthorpe Park

This invitation was issued to William Sands Cox, founder of Queen's Hospital in 1840 as a clincal school for the Birmingham Royal School of Medicin...