Children on climbing frame
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children on swings
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding, 1939
Children Receive Bread at Worcester Cathedral
This photograph shows the distribution of bread in the Chapter House at Worcester Cathedral. This formed part of the cathedral's charitable bequests.
Children sitting by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Chinnbrook Community Centre
Representative of a community centre movement which developed in the inter-war period, this post-war example served the Yardley Wood and Billesley estates. Such centres offered recreational and educational ...
Creating Space for Play
The Sparkbrook Association's interest in child development and welfare led to the opening of a number of playgroups. Playgroups were places mothers and fathers could bring their children to play alongside ...
Dancing in the Dell at Muntz Park
Regular dances were organised in the Dell at Muntz Park by the Bournbrook Entertainments Committee from 1923 onwards. A disused clay pit, known as the Dell, was laid out for dancing and open-air theatre ...
Drawing of a Middlemore Girl
As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine:
‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...
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. This is an important piece of evidence. It proves that ...
Faces and Places: Sarwan Singh and the Indian Workers Association
[Submitted by Sarwan Singh]
On the 3rd of October 2008 Birmingham Stories held an event entitled 'Race and Racism' in Birmingham Central Library. At this session, Dr Kevin Searle introduced the new ...
Family group
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Family sitting at the table
Family sitting at the table
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Front Cover of the Weoley Castle Review
Weoley Castle Community Association newsletter, volume 2, number 11.
Girl on swing
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
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.