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Aerial View of Allen's Cross, Northfield
W. Edwards Ltd built the Allen’s Cross estate for Birmingham Corporation in the early 1930s. This photograph was commissioned from Midland Air Services and it shows the brand new estate as an island in ...
African Barkcloth Beater
This barkcloth beater, made from wood and horn, was collected in Africa by the traveller and diarist Helen Caddick, who lived in York Road, Edgbaston.
African Roscius
This is a playbill for a production of Othello, performed at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham in 1846. The production starred renowned black actor Ira Aldridge, who was known as 'African Roscius.'
Aldridge ...
Ahmed's Journey
"My name is Ahmed Mirreh. I was born in Khamis Mashed in Saudi Arabia. I stayed there for 6 years. In 1989 civil war was in Somalia. My parents emigrated to Holland. There was at that moment no other ...
Al Anderson
Al Anderson, guitarist with Bob Marley & The Wailers.
Photographed at The Tower Ballroom, Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Allenscroft Road Working Boys' Home, Kings Heath
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many new children's homes were opened in Birmingham and several of these were intended to be homes for working children.
Some of these were purpose built – like Allenscroft ...
Alma Terrace, Highgate
Despite massive municipal building schemes of the inter-war years, the housing crisis was more pressing in Birmingham in 1945 than 1918. Recent housing surveys revealed an unacceptable 50,000 properties ...
Alton Ellis
Alton Ellis, photographed in Peckham, London, 1985. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Alvechurch Road Children's Home, Longbridge
Alvechurch Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built West Heath housing estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each ...
Amanda Smith
Amanda Smith came to Birmingham in 1879. Born into slavery in the United States, Amanda Smith's father bought his freedom and that of his family. Smith herself was educated at home, and in 1863 moved ...
Amazulu
Amazulu, photographed in Birmingham, 1986. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
AMERICAN SLAVERY TO ENGLISH MINISTRY: THE REVD. PETER THOMAS STANFORD (1860-1909)
Submitted by Rev. Paul Walker of Highgate Baptist Church, Birmingham.
In 1995 I was investigating the history of Highgate Baptist Church, when a friend brought me details of an article he’d noticed ...
Analysis of Water from Gloster Cottage, 30 Metchley Lane
The Calthorpe Estate was still being developed during the 1880s as a comfortable retreat for the wealthy; but within its boundaries were many farms and small dwellings that pre-dated the Victorian expansion. ...
And Why Not
And Why Not, photographed at the Irish Centre, Birmingham, 1990. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Andy Hamilton and his band
Many musicians and artists came to Britain during the period of post-war migration in the twentieth century. With them they brought artistic forms from their countries of origin such as Trinidadian calypsos, ...
Andy Hamilton and Ralf DeCambre
Andy Hamilton (saxophinist) and Ralf DeCambre (guitarist), photographed in Birmingham, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Andy Hamilton was born in Port ...
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 ...