White Cotton Cap worn by a Cadbury's Employee
This white cap is one of a number of items donated by Amelia Drew, an employee at Cadbury’s Bournville Works during the early twentieth century. This particular cap dates from 1941 and, therefore, it ...
William Mills (1856-1932)
Although William Mills is famous as the Birmingham inventor and engineer who developed the hand grenade familiarly known to First World War British soldiers as the 'Mills Bomb', he was born in Sunderland ...
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.
Women Dancing in the Dell at Muntz Park
From about 1914 organised dancing in some of Birmingham’s public parks became a popular activity. The Parks Committee made arrangements for dances to be held on public holidays and during the summer season ...
Women Employees arriving at work
Cadbury’s archives hold a bound volume of Personal Reminiscences of Bridge Street and Bournville 1870-1929 by 63 men and women living at the time of the Bournville Jubilee 1929.1 Each account was hand ...
Women with Bicycles in Cannon Hill Park
Cycling was an activity that became increasingly popular with women during the early part of the twentieth century. Cycling in parks, however, was subject to restrictions.
Women Workers at Mills Munitions Factory
This photograph shows women manufacturing grenade base plugs at the Mills Munitions factory in Birmingham. Soon after the outbreak of war it had become common for ‘an engineering shop to be staffed almost ...
Women's Cycling Shorts
Shorts like this were known as 'rational dress' because they were designed around function rather than fashion. Edgbastonia magazine printed articles about this development in women's dress in 1900.
Women's Hat
By the beginning of the First World War, women’s hats had assumed gigantic proportions. The corsets fashionable at the time tended to push the body forward at the bust and out at the rear; a large hat ...
Women's Tennis Dress
By the early twentieth century women were taking an increasing interest in sport. This led to special clothes being designed for particular activities. The popularity of cycling brought about some revolutionary ...
Women's Two-Piece Dress
Important developments were taking place in the role of women in the early twentieth century, with growing interest in women’s rights, the Suffragette movement demanding votes for women, and increased ...
Woodbrooke
This nineteenth century house in Selly Oak has been much extended, originally for private purposes and since 1903 in connection with its use as a Quaker education centre (see also ink drawing of Woodbrooke). ...
Woodbrooke College, Selly Oak
This ink drawing depicts Woodbrooke College in Selly Oak. It was produced in 1956 by James Porteous Wood. He was a noted artist and designer whom the Birmingham Post commissioned to produce drawings of ...
Yatesbury Avenue Residential Nursery, Castle Vale
When a site for Yatesbury Avenue was initially selected by the Council in 1967, it was intended to be an ordinary children’s home.
It was later decided that it would be a 12 bed home to be used ‘as ...
Young black girl in slum interior
Photograph of a young black girl in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Young boy cleaning horse droppings off the street near the Town Hall by Thomas Clark
Young girls employed at Mills Munitions Works
Young workers making toys at Chad Valley