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 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 ...
'Workwell' Kitchen Range
Triplex 'Workwell' coal fired kitchen range, bearing the registration number '708307', with small fire place next to oven door with a range above. The two levers provide heat to the bottom and top sections ...
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 ...
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 boy reading a book
Photograph of a little boy reading a book in outside stairwell. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Young boy sitting on pavement
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham, 1943
Young girl in slum bathroom
Photograph of a little girl in a slum bathroom. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.
Young girl on fairground ride