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 ...
Arts and Charities
Image: Jenny Lind
Historical sources show that in the Birmingham Jewish community, drama, literature, music and the arts have always been integral. As well as an important form of self expression, ...
Asian Resource Centre
The Asian Resource Centre was established in 1976 at Villa Road in Handsworth. It was founded on the belief that it was "necessary and desirable for Asian residents in Handsworth to have their own autonomous ...
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.
Bangles
Bangle Stall, Stratford Road. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Bangles
Bangle Stall, Stratford Road. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
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 ...
Barbara Tomlinson-Lindsay
Barbara Tomlinson-Lindsay, Career Development Adviser, Department of Trade and Industry: "I am currently a middle manager and yet people often ask me if I am a secretary of a clerical grade. You cannot ...
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 ...
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children on the Desert of Sahara.
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children from Algeria.