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 on street corner by Nick Hedges
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 ...
Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor.
The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is now the World's largest after New York and Dublin.
On ...
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 ...
Cadbury advertisement: This is a Bournville Workroom
Bournville Works and village was a social and industrial experiment devised by George and Richard Cadbury that was made possible by the relocation of their company from central Birmingham to rural Bournbrook ...
Cadbury advertisement: This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds
This is a part of the Bournville Recreation Grounds was one a series of advertisements published by Cadbury between October and November 1910. Whereas the advertisement entitled This is a Bournville Workroom1 ...
Cadbury's Card Box Department
Backing paper annotated with: 'The department in the early years of the century, before the move to Q Block'.
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph ...
Cadbury's Cocoa Labelling
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 ...
Cadbury's Lodge, Bournville
Backing paper annotated with: 'The Lodge as it appeared for many years before and after the turn of the century. It was for a considerable period the main entrance for the girl employees, and their time ...