'Two children painting' in Sparkbrook
Evidence of children’s creativity in the past is difficult to find. Drawings, paintings and stories produced by children rarely enter the archive or the museum. Many such items were stored by parents ...
Two girls in a doorway in A B Row by W. Archer Clark
A B Row was so-called because it separated the ancient parishes of Aston and Birmingham.
Two girls in the interior of a caravan by Rob Moore
Two girls, Notting Hill, London by Nick Hedges
Hedges tried to show a positive, as well as negative, side of homelessness. These girls are photographed in their one room flat. They are smiling and the room is homely and inviting. However, their home ...
Two women with children in the street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Two young girls with grandmother
Valencia Croft, Castle Vale
The building on Valencia Croft opened as a children’s home in 1967. It was a purpose-built detached house on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another children’s ...
Vauxhall House, 205 Vauxhall Road, Aston
Opened in 1913, 205 Vauxhall Road was initially known as the Boys’ Home but had the purpose of what was later to become known as a working boys’ hostel. When boys in the cottage homes had finished their ...
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 ...
Warstock Children's Home
In the late 1960s / early 1970s, there was much activity in terms of the development of children’s homes and, specifically, a growth in the number of new hostels for older children being opened.
Some ...
Warwick Pageant
This photograph shows a scene from the Warwick Pageant, with the child selected to act out a sacrifice.
Warwick Pageant Rehearsal
This photograph shows school children attending a rehearsal of the Warwick Pageant.
Wassell Grove Residential Nursery, Stourbridge
Based near Clent, the Wassell Grove building was initially used as a convalescent home - from 1917 – for patients sent there from Dudley Road Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital and the Public Assistance Department. ...
Watercolour of gypsies camped near Bromford Forge by Joseph Barber
West Heath Children's Home
The children's home in West Heath was used by Birmingham Social Services as a children's home from 1981. The single-storey building was known as 'Charles House'.
The home was initially categorised ...
Westminster Junior School, Handsworth
Photograph by Terry Lo.
Woman and four children
Photograph of a woman in a headscarf with four small children in a slum interior. Taken in Winson Green, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
World War 1 recruitment poster
Poster depicting the destruction wrought by the German naval bombardment of Scarborough on December 16, 1914.
Home held a powerful symbolism during World War 1. Men went to the Front to fight in defence ...