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Packing Mayfair Chocolates at Cadbury

Backing paper annotated with: 'A scene in "O" Block Top (later called O.B.Third) where "Mayfair" and other Grade 2 lines were packed'. The composition of this image is similar to Frederick Taylor’s ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph from Montserrat Lime Company records.

The Montserrat Lime Company was formed by J.& E. Sturge for the production and export of lime juice from Montserrat for use in the manufacture of citric acid at their chemical works at Edgbaston. Joseph ...

Photograph of Cadbury's Forewomen

This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in publications and advertisements, whilst others were ...

Plymouth, Montserrat.

Image: Plymouth in the late nineteenth century. Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham. Near the end of his life, he created a free labour plantation on ...

Post Office Directry of Trades

Postcard showing woman cycling on Hagley Road

Even in 1905, Hagley Road was a busy thoroughfare, and this view, with the Plough and Harrow Hotel on the left hand side, shows us people getting about in a variety of ways. Pedestrians and cyclists ...

Refreshment Tariff, Lisseter and Miller

Lisseter and Miller had been asked to quote for the supply of catering for the café in the Botanical Gardens. This is their proposed price list. A note at the top says 'approved'.

Report from The Birmingham Post

John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. ...

Roland Grenade

This is a section of the Belgian Army hand grenade used by Allied forces at the start of WW1; William Mills, who had settled in Edgbaston and owned engineering factories in the suburbs, accepted commissions ...

Samaj in'a Babylon

Samaj in’a Babylon MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection As well as ‘traditional’ socialist newspapers and magazines, support for the ‘Grunwick’ strikers also came from within ethnic minorities. Samaj ...

Socialist Challenge 'Labour Special Patrol Group'

Socialist Challenge ‘Labour Special Patrol Group’ MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection As the dispute proceeded, serious confrontations occurred between the police and pickets. This image cleverly links ...

Staff Recommends: 'Women at Work'

This is an additional miscellaneous resource list of materials on the subject of 'women at work', developed during research seminars held by the Birmingham Stories project. The references below can be ...