Application of Alice Cumbley, Institution for the Blind, Birmingham
Alice Cumbley was at Birmingham Institution for the Blind in the early 1900s. The Institution kept detailed records for each child from admission to leaving.
Apprenticeship agreement between Thomas Stirling of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, London, and George Hardy, chimney sweep, of St. Marylebone
Climbing boys were sent up chimneys to clean them. Although there were fewer of them than other child workers their sufferings captured the imagination of campaigners against child labour from the late ...
Arthur and Rachel Albright with their eight children
Beaumont Albright was born on 21 August 1861 at the family home in Edgbaston. He was the youngest of eight children of Quakers Arthur Albright and his wife Rachel.
Beaumont is sitting on a small stool ...
Aston Children's Home
This children's home was initially in a building known as Jubilee House.
Jubilee House was opened as a children’s home late in 1978 and was designed ‘to meet both the long-term and short-stay needs ...
Athelstan House (Junior Remand Home), 232 Moseley Road, Highgate
This home has had a number of different functions during its long history and a number of different names including 'the Birmingham Children's Remand Home', 'the Boys' Remand Home', 'the Junior Remand ...
Autobiography of Richard Bennett, chimney sweep, written for the Birmingham Association for the Suppression of Climbing Boys
In the 1830s John Cadbury led a campaign in Birmingham against the employment of climbing boys. He called a meeting of all the sweeps in the town and tried to convince them to use machines instead. He ...
Baby sitting in a pram
Back-to-back slum house, near Watery Lane, Small Heath, Birmingham.
Baby sleeping in a cot
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Baby, young girl and man in backyard
Slum housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Baptism register of St John's, Deritend
The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes from a baptism register of 1705/6. Although people associate travellers with images of colourful caravans, travelling homes were often ...
Bartley Green Children's Home (no. 36)
This was built as a family group home or ‘scattered home’ in 1952 on the newly built California municipal housing estate in Bartley Green.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, ...
Bartley Green Children's Home (no. 52)
Along with the other children’s home built on this road (at number 36), this was built in 1952, as a new-build on the California housing estate which itself was in the process of being completed at the ...
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children on the Desert of Sahara.
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children from Algeria.
Beechenhurst, 10 Serpentine Road, Selly Oak
From at least 1953, Beechenhurst was used by the Council as a care home for elderly people.
In 1981, Birmingham residential childcare was divided into four districts – West Birmingham, North/East Birmingham, ...
Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley
Belgrave Road, Balsall Heath
Bible Reading
Bible Reading, African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.