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 ...
Moseley Children's Home
This detached house was bought by the Council in 1966 with the intention of adapting it to accommodate between 12 and 14 children.
According to the electoral roll, the live-in house parents from when ...
Plan for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This plan formed part of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. The ...
Plan of Uffculme Open-Air School
Uffculme Open-Air School opened in 1911 in the grounds of the Uffculme estate, between Moseley and Kings Heath. The land was provided by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury, whose son Paul had benefitted from ...
Political Demonstrations in the Parks
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Parks Committee minutes contain detailed information about the type of organisations applying to use Birmingham’s parks for meetings and demonstrations. The issue of whether ...
Postcard of Moseley Park & Pool
This postcard shows the pool in Moseley Park. The park was created from part of the grounds of Moseley Hall, and opened to keyholders in 1899.
Poster advertising an event to raise money for Belgian refugees in Birmingham
Poster advertising defence bonds to raise money for the war effort
Programme for a Concert in Cannon Hill Park
Musical performances were regularly organised in the parks in the nineteenth century, and formed a major part of the entertainments programme arranged by the Parks Department. As with other leisure activities ...
Proposal for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This is the first page of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. It ...
Remedial Electrical and Bed-frame Wiring Work in Highbury's Greenhouse
This photograph shows soldiers at work in a pioneering programme at Highbury Hospital to improve the care of the wounded. During the First World War the modern concept and practice of medical rehabilitation ...
The Chamberlain Family at Highbury
This photograph is from an album compiled by Mary Endicott Chamberlain, third wife of Joseph Chamberlain. The album contains a number of photographs of the grounds at Highbury Hall, and includes several ...
'The Taming of the Shrew' at Cannon Hill Park
This photograph shows a matinee performance at the arena at Cannon Hill Park. Plays had first been performed in the parks as part of the wartime entertainments organised as part of the Brighter Birmingham ...
Viennese girls with Elizabeth and George Cadbury in the garden of their home
On 29 October 1920 18 girls from Vienna arrived in Bournville where they lived with local families for a year. They were all between 8 and 12 years of age and lived in Bournville until 2 September 1921 ...