Portraits of Individual 'Little Bricklayers' from A Souvenir of the Children’s Bricklaying Ceremony, arranged and carried out under the direction the direction of Mrs J. E. Player. July 29th, 1913.

Description:The Children’s Hospital Brick League was established in 1913. The League’s objective was to raise money for building a new Children’s Hospital at Ladywood. It organised the ‘Scheme for Brick Laying Ceremony’ where any child who gave a guinea (one pound and one shilling or 105 new pence) could have their initials cut onto a brick and be invited to lay it at a grand ceremony in July 1913. The first page of the photograph album contains images of this event. Subsequent pages contain individual portraits of children. Not every child could afford to buy a brick and in many schools whole classes contributed money to buy one.