Elizabeth Cadbury (1858-1951)

Entry Submitted by Caroline Forman [Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department] Elizabeth was the wife of George Cadbury, of Cadbury’s Chocola...

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...

Bath Row Redevelopment Scheme

Pencil sketch by Reginald Edgecombe depicting an artist impression of new housing and road infrastructure for the new Bath Row Redevelopment Zone w...

Birmingham's 40,000th Municipal House

Photograph originally published in the Birmingham Post depicting the opening of Birmingham's 40,000th municipal home by Neville Chamberlain.

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 ...

Caravans in Upper Ryland Road

Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industri...

City of Birmingham Housing Estates

Plan showing location of municipal housing estates in Birmingham in 1931, Weoley Castle situated to the south-west of the city.

Early Jewish Presence In Birmingham

‘A House Inhabited by Jews’ (1750). In one Birmingham’s early ‘levy books’, a number of Jews can be seen living together as early as 1750. T...

Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank

New council flats being built on slum clearance land off Great Colmore Street in the Lee Bank Redevelopment Area.

Harborne Tenants Ltd. House type 4L

Section from page 48 from a prospectus published by Harborne Tenants Limited showing one of a variety of housing designs used during the constructi...

Highlighting Housing Need

The Sparkbrook newsletter became an important space for local residents to express their thoughts about living in Sparkbrook. This edition from 196...

Homes for Sparkbrook

This photograph shows volunteers at work decorating a Sparkbrook property. Improving the condition of properties had the potential to better th...