Girls Exercising in the School Hall, Birmingham by William Woollaston

This image shows girls exercising with Indian clubs. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exe...

Girls of Gower Street School, Ladywood, carrying maypoles

The street was the focus of community activities and celebrations of national events. Processions marked special days in the calendar such as May D...

Graveyard of Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage by Sir Benjamin Stone

It is possible to see the surname of a child and their date of death in this photograph – Taylor 1905. The existence of the Orphanage’s graveyard i...

Group of children at circus

Group of children crossing the road

Group of children playing in street

Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.

Group of children playing in street

Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.

Group of children playing outside

'Gypsies of the Sahara'

This photograph shows children in the Atlas Mountains.

'Gypsy Encampment' in Turkey

This photograph shows children on an encampment near Misopoli.

'Gypsy Encampment', Cookley

This photograph shows children on a traveller site on Whittington Lane, Cookley.

Home Front

Poster for an exhibition of photographs by John Reardon and Derek Bishton taken for the 'Home Front' project which documented the lives and experie...