Boy selling newspapers with a blind man on the corner of New Street and Worcester Street by Thomas Clark
Boy with Flag by Vanley Burke
Vanley Burke’s photographs are noted for making visible in a sensitive way black daily life in Britain. Looking straight at the camera the boy presents the viewer with a strong sense of his own identity. ...
Boy with flag, Handsworth Park
This photograph of a boy with a flag taken in Handsworth Park comes from the Vanley Burke Archive. It was part Vanley's first exhibition 'Handsworth from the Inside' which was originally exhibited at ...
Boy with hoop at Calthorpe Park
In the 19th century public parks were introduced to provide the poor and working classes with healthier ways to spend their leisure hours. The land was often given by social reformers – Lord Calthorpe ...
Boy with pigeon, Balsall Heath by Alan Wood
Boys Admission Register of Middlemore Homes, 1873-1914, showing Henry’s admission
Henry Bate sailed to Canada on 20 June 1905 with a party of children sent by Middlemore Homes. Henry lived in 2 Court, Vauxhall with his mother Ada Owen, his step father and two other children. The family ...
Boys Exercising in the School Yard, Birmingham by William Woollaston
This image shows boys exercising with dumb bells. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exercises being introduced into the curriculum. Such activities ...
Boys in Calthorpe Park
This photograph shows a group of boys in Calthorpe Park. Their clothing suggests that they are from working-class or lower middle-class backgrounds. It is easy to imagine that they might have found themselves ...
Boys of Gower Street School, Ladywood, with blacked-up faces
Like the maypole, the boys’ blackened faces were a part of May Day traditions. The day was historically associated with chimney sweeps. They would march in a procession led by ‘Jack-in-the-Green’, a garlanded ...
Boys sitting on cars, Balsall Heath
From a series of photographs taken in Balsall Heath, by Alan J. Wood.
Bridgeburn Road, Weoley Castle
The children's home on Bridgeburn Road opened in a purpose-built house for eight children in 1953 on the newly built Woodcock Hill housing estate.
The first houseparents were Mr and Mrs Godfrey who ...
Brighter Birmingham Programmes
In common with other cities and towns in Britain and as promoted by the government, Birmingham City Council organised a variety of events during the Second World War to provide entertainments for war ...
Bristol Road Tramcar
The Bristol Road Tramway1
This tram (fleet number 395) is a rare survivor of Birmingham’s once mighty electric tram fleet.2 It was built in 1911-12 and preserved in 1953, just weeks before the tram ...
Brooklands, Selly Wick Road, Selly Oak
Before becoming a children's home, the building on Selly Wick Road was originally a vicarage. The two storey building was bought by the Children’s Committee in 1967 to be adapted for use as a children’s ...
BSA Ladies' Bicycle
Tight controls on cycling were imposed by Birmingham’s Parks Committee from the earliest days of the activity. In the 1870s, before the invention of the ‘safety bicycle’ opened up cycling to women, children, ...
Cadbury advertisement: Something Like a Present
This window bill is part of a bound volume of advertisements and other marketing paraphernalia produced by Cadbury at their Bournville Works.
Cadbury advertisement: Testing Room at Bournville
Testing Room at Bournville was one of a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 1910. Each advertisement was designed to promote a different aspect of the Bournville ...
Cadbury advertisement: The Cricket Pavilion at Bournville
‘“All work no play” is not the rule in the Factory in a Garden at Bournville.’
The working and leisure environments of the working classes were the focus of many middle class reformers and social investigators ...