Ann Street School, Birmingham
Oil painting by Alfred H. Green (c.1822-?).
Past schooling is brought vibrantly to life in this painting. We can see infants sewing, reading, listening, watching, falling asleep, crying, putting on ...
Appledore, Serpentine Road, Selly Oak
The building at Serpentine Road has had a variety of uses over the years. Its first mention in the Birmingham City Council minutes is as a students’ hostel. It became a home for elderly people in 1949 ...
Application Book of Middlemore Homes, 1903-1914 giving the reasons Henry was admitted
Henry is case number 2576. He was described as a ‘Healthy looking boy very ragged, Street Arab type’. Street Arab was a common derogatory term for poor children who roamed the streets.
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.
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 ...
Austin A90 Atlantic Record Breaker
Built at Longbridge, this car established world endurance records at the Indianapolis Raceway in April 1949. It evokes excitement but also illustrates post-war realities in Birmingham and beyond. Launched ...
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.
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 ...
Bath Row (Lee Bank) Redevelopment Area
This map demonstrates the way land was parcelled up, or ‘zoned’, to the south-west of Birmingham’s city centre after the Second World War. Zoning organised units of land for residential, commercial or ...
Bath Row Redevelopment Scheme
Pencil sketch by Reginald Edgecombe depicting an artist impression of new housing and road infrastructure for the new Bath Row Redevelopment Zone which encompassed Lee Bank.
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, ...
Behind the Scenes of a Pageant
The pageant of Birmingham of 1938 was a spectacle of epic proportion. Through the course of its 135 minutes it covered the period beginning in prehistory right up to modern trade unionism, using at least ...
'Being Marked Out'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff. ...
Belgian Refugee Register: War Refugee Committee
The Belgian Refugee War Register is one of a series of documents associated with the Belgian War Relief Fund that was established during World War One to support the thousands of Belgian refugees who ...
Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley