Dudley & Dowell Foundry
Lunch break at Dudley & Dowell Foundry, Cradley Heath. Photograph by Paul Hill.
Dudley & Dowell Foundry
Dudley & Dowell Foundry, Cradley Heath. Photograph by Paul Hill.
'Easington'
Poster for an exhibition of two sets of photographic work about the East Durham colliery village of Easington during the 1984-1985 Miners' Strike, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery. One set of ...
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1900
Edgbastonia magazine greeted the new century with a re-designed title page.
Edgbastonia Title Page, 1902
Edgbastonia incorporated the City's coat of arms 'Forward' into its title page in 1902.
Eight children in slum bedroom
Group photograph of eight children in a slum bedroom. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.
Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield
Programme for a performance by Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, 'the Black Swan' in Birmingham on June 23rd 1853. Among the songs performed by Taylor Greenfield were 'The Cradle Song', 'Home, Sweet Home,' ...
Elsie Owusu
Elsie Owusu, architect: "When I was much younger I was always wanting to be outside the system, but now I realise that being at peace in this kind of society is about managing the system."
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Entrance to the Blue Coat School by Sir Benjamin Stone
The Blue Coat School stood at the east end of St Philip’s churchyard. It was founded as a charity in 1723 to board and educate the children of the poor. Boys and girls were taught to read, write and do ...
Exterior of Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage, Erdington by Sir Benjamin Stone
Like many Victorian civic buildings Mason’s Orphanage was monumental in scale, the building dwarfing its inmates. A digital enhancement of the photograph enables an adult figure to be seen in an open ...
Extract from Edgbastonia, 1902
This is an example of the feature headers that were introduced in Edgbastonia in the early years of the twentieth century. They show a strong Arts and Crafts influence.
Fables and Illustrations, by Joseph Southall
This powerful nightmare vision of a weapon of mass destruction is by the Quaker artist Joseph Southall who lived and worked in Edgbaston. 'The Obliterator' appeared in his anti-war pamphlet 'Fables and ...
Faces and Places: John Suffield
John Suffield, ‘the liveliest… of the happy band of ninety-year olds’
[Submitted by Maggie Burns]
John Suffield of Birmingham lived to the grand age of ninety-seven. He was born in Old Lamb House, ...
Faces and Places: Thomas Ewart Mitton
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage
Thomas Ewart Mitton, called Ewart (his family name)in this article, born in April 1897, died young. Like most of his generation he enjoyed ...
Family group
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Family in bedsit interior
Photograph of a woman and man with their two children in a bedsit interior. Photograph taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Family sitting at the table
Family sitting at the table
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.