Faces and Places: The Middlemore Archive Collection
[Submitted by Angela Skitt, Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department]
The Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore as the ‘Children’s Emigration Homes’. The first ...
Kings Norton & Northfield Tram Escutcheon & Standard
Aspects of Tramways in South-West Birmingham1
This escutcheon bears the motif of Kings Norton and Northfield Urban District Council and was used to mark items of the tramway infrastructure.2 Bordering ...
Kings Norton Guillotine Stop Lock
Built in 1815, this lock is immediately east of the junction between the Stratford and the Worcester & Birmingham Canals, its purpose being to prevent water loss from the Stratford Canal. Shown here in ...
Kulwant Ubhi and his friend Tony
Photograph of Kulwant Ubhi and his friend Tony at Startins, Aston, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sukhvinder Singh Ubhi, 1990s.
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Ladies Bicycle, from the Crescent Cycles Catalogue
Bicycles were being actively marketed to women by 1900, as this catalogue entry shows.
Lantern Slide of Women Wearing Rational Dress
This photograph, probably taken in London, shows women wearing short trousers which were worn for cycling. Because clothes like this were based upon function rather than fashion, they became known as ...
Lantern Slide Showing Woman Wearing Rational Dress
This photograph, probably taken in London, shows a woman wearing short trousers which were worn for cycling. Because clothes like this were based upon function rather than fashion, they became known as ...
Lifford Lane Railway Bridge
Stirchley’s Railway Infrastructure
Frank Lockwood depicted a scene that had been familiar for over a hundred years but which would disappear within ten years of this watercolour's production. Steam ...
Locomotive and Tender built for the Pitmaston Moor Green Model Railway
Just outside the boundaries of the Edgbaston Calthorpe Estate lay Sir John Holder’s estate at Pitmaston, close to Joseph Chamberlain’s home at Highbury. The Holders were brewers – a magnificent tiled ...
Map of Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Today's Cross City Line between Birmingham New Street Station and Kings Norton follows the former Birmingham West Suburban Railway.1 Opened in 1876, this key route has had a significant, yet varied, impact ...
Mr Everitt, Tram Conductor
This etching captures the quiet authority popularly expected of conductors (see 'Transport Workers in South West Birmingham'). Responsible for fare collection, passenger safety and the smooth running ...
'Obviously', by D. Binns
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their visitors.
Illustration from The ...
Outer Circle Bus Service
Local Bus Services in South-West Birmingham
Published by Birmingham Corporation Tramways and Omnibus Department (BCT) in 1930, this booklet promotes the Outer Circle bus service almost as a tourist ...
Postcard of Bristol Road, Edgbaston
This postcard shows the overhead tram cables along Bristol Road. This modern form of transport co-existed with horsedrawn vehicles, one of which appears in the background.
Postcard of Motor Bus, Hagley Road
This postcard gives us a vivid impression of people queuing up for the Hagley Road bus in 1906, while horsedrawn vehicles and a handcart share the road. On the back is a handwritten message from Kate ...
Postcard showing woman cycling on Hagley Road
Even in 1905, Hagley Road was a busy thoroughfare, and this view, with the Plough and Harrow Hotel on the left hand side, shows us people getting about in a variety of ways. Pedestrians and cyclists ...
Programme of Grand Concerts at Llandudno
An article in the Edgbastonia magazine for January 1883 describes a somewhat hazardous trip undertaken to North Wales by an Edgbaston resident. The writer started out from Llandudno, and although he reached ...
South Sea Islands
Originally captioned 'Governors Gig & Crew, Nasova, Fiji Islands. South Sea Islands.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.