Birmingham Blue Coat School Girls by Sir Benjamin Stone
The children were clothed in distinctive blue uniforms. The photographs are particularly important as the names of the children are included. These can be cross referenced with the other school records. ...
Birmingham Boys and Girls Union Report
The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the anxieties that many middle-class reformers had about working-class ...
Birmingham Broadside November 1977
BIRMINGHAM’S SOLIDARITY
Birmingham Broadside November 1977 MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
This image reflects both traditional and emerging aspects of the local labour movement. The report of the ...
Birmingham Bus Crew Member
This photograph was taken some time after Birmingham City Transport abandoned it’s ‘colour bar’ in 1954 (see 'Transport Workers in South-West Birmingham'). Immigrants often chose to record their status ...
Birmingham Buses and the Colour Bar
Mirroring the situation in other British cities, in post-war Birmingham black people were barred from employment as conductors or drivers on buses. Although they were employed in local authority garages ...
Birmingham Canal
Image: Photograoh from Warwickshire Photographic Survey (date unknown).
The canal systems were vital for the developemt of metal industries in Birmingham. See 'Campaiging for Social Justice for a ...
Birmingham Childrens Homes- Resources for Schools
Introduction to resources for schools
The records reproduced here are a sample of the archive material about Birmingham Children’s Homes, held by Birmingham Archives & Heritage. They have been put ...
Birmingham China Town Lions Club
Photograph by Terry Lo.
Birmingham Chinese Elders Concern Group
Photograph by Terry Lo.
Birmingham City Council Improvement Committee Minutes
The appointment of the Improvement Committee in July 1875 marked the earliest initiative by the City Council to tackle Birmingham’s slums. The originator of the scheme was the mayor, Joseph Chamberlain, ...
Birmingham City Council Interviewing Sub-Committee Minutes
Using powers conferred by public health and housing legislation, the Improvement Committee had condemned and demolished whole swathes of slum housing and overseen a number of improvements made in central ...
Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes
The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applications for municipal housing. Estates Department officials ...
Birmingham City Transport Bus Ticket
Birmingham City Transport [BCT]: Serving Passengers and Rate Payers
The bus ticket was purchased by a worker at Longbridge. It has been selected to represent BCT’s obligation to run services profitably. ...
Birmingham City Transport Report
Recruitment in Eire 1951
This report reflects a major aspect of Birmingham’s dependence on immigrant labour in the 1950s and beyond.1 Key sectors became associated with the Irish workforce, including ...
Birmingham Council For Refugees
Image:Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Singers Hill Year Book;
Annual Report, 31st Dec, 1942.
Zoe Josephs has written that one of the first sanctuaries for refugees was a house on Duchess Road, Edgbaston, ...
Birmingham Council Minutes, 1839.
Birmingham was not officially ‘incorporated’ as a town until the year 1838. Before this date, there no was official ‘council’, but a ‘Streets and Paving Commissioners Board’ that held limited means of ...
Birmingham Daily Post Article
This report discusses an incident in Cannon Hill Park, in which Charles Cartwright's carriage was pelted with snowballs as he drove through the park on the morning of Sunday 10 January. The article expresses ...
Birmingham Hebrew Philanthropic Society
This image displays the opening minutes of the Birmingham Hebrew Philanthropic Society for the Relief of Indigent Jews. Starting in 1828, this charity hightlights the problems of poverty faced by Jewish ...