School Children Learn about Insects
This photograph by W. Woollaston shows school children being taught about insects.
School Children Performing First Arm Exercise
This photograph by W. Woollaston shows children in the playground performing "First Arm Exercise" at Somerville Road School.
School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants
The album consists of fourteen photographs. There are images of children on an outing to the countryside, of children dressing up and of children standing next to some plants with the caption, ‘Beans ...
School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants
This photograph was not fixed in the album. It was produced and published to be sold locally by a professional photographer. It is a very carefully posed image. The children have been organised to give ...
Shoemaking, Norton Reformatory Annual Report
Children were educated and trained in various trades, including shoemaking, gardening, tailoring and farming.
Single Storey Dwellings for Aged People, by Manzoni
Watercolour artist impression by Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor, depicting layout of the kind of elderly person's maisonette-type dwelling built on new housing estates.
Sir Benjamin Stone and Children in the UK
Sir John Benjamin Stone was born in Aston in 1838 and educated at King Edward's School on New Street, Birmingham. He joined his father’s glass manufacturing business, eventually succeeding him as director. ...
Sketches In The Condemned Localities
Ink print accompanying an article, originally printed in 'The Graphic' newspaper, depicting inhabitants of John Street in central Birmingham.
Standard Municipal Housing Designs
Example of non-parlour class of council house, from a roll design templates in the records of Humphries & McDonald, Architects.
Statue of Bishop Gore, St Philip's Cathedral
Bishop Gore, Sweated Labour and Workers’ Education
This photograph was taken by the City Council’s Information Department in the 1950s for inclusion in an official guide and it celebrates Birmingham’s ...
Street Sign - Court 4
Example of oval-shaped sign used to mark the tunnel-like entrances to the courtyards behind back-to-back houses, usually addressed in censuses and directories with the court number before the house address ...
Sunday Sports in our Public Parks
This pamphlet was issued in protest at proposals to relax restrictions on the playing of football, cricket and other sports in Birmingham's parks on Sundays.
The Effect of Flat Dwelling on Children
Much of the new accommodation built after 1945 for the purposes of re-housing comprised increasingly taller, high-density tower blocks, many built in the five Redevelopment Areas. They also rose across ...
The Lord Mayor's European Famine Fund
Minute Book of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s European Famine Fund.
The Lord Mayor’s Fund was established by William Adlington Cadbury in December 1919 to provide aid to starving women and children ...
The Shelter Archive: Photographs by Nick Hedges
Between 1968 and 1972 Nick Hedges made a series of photographs for the national housing charity 'Shelter'. Launched in December 1966 (the same month as Ken Loach's influential television drama 'Cathy ...
The Sins of Our Cities by Our Resident Special Commissioner, III. Birmingham The Modern Review, No. 5
The Sins of Our Cities described how for many children their ‘surroundings were vile, their associates vicious, their homes wretched. ’ Lacking adult moral guidance children were seen as being at risk ...
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...
The Warwickshire Photographic Survey and Schooling
The Warwickshire Photographic Survey is made up of some 25,000 photographs, 10,000 of which are from the original survey. Set up in 1890 by the Birmingham Photographic Society members Sir John Benjamin ...