Mr Wheeley's, Edgbaston, by Charles Barber
Many of Charles Barber’s drawings are simply labelled with their district rather than a specific location, but this farmhouse is helpfully titled Mr Wheeley’s, Edgbaston. The Wheeley family had been in ...
'My Second Sermon', by Millais
'My Second Sermon', by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), shows a girl asleep in a church with her legs dangling uncrossed. No Bible can be seen. It is one of a pair of paintings, the other being 'My First ...
News Article on 'Suicide in Cannon Hill Park'
There are a surprisingly large number of references in the Birmingham Daily Post between 1857 and 1900 to suicide or attempted suicide in Calthorpe and Cannon Hill parks. This evidence gives an insight ...
Norton Reformatory admission register
Reproduction of Joseph Pagett, aged 14, a young offender from the admission register of Norton Reformatory.
Identification photographs such as this were made for the authorities to be able to identify ...
Norton Reformatory Punishment Book
On March 14 1886 four boys were caned for planning to run away. One of them had been previously caned for bullying. Of all of the institutions which children came into contact with the reformatories generally ...
Notebook of Robert Aglionby Slaney
These pages are from a series of notebooks kept by Robert Aglionby Slaney, who served as MP for Shrewsbury for several periods between the 1820s and early 1860s. He was interested in social, economic ...
Ordnance Survey Map showing central Birmingham around John Street
Section of the First Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIV. 5. 8. At the top left corner a large section of housing on John Street has been removed, denoting the buildings demolished ...
Ordnance Survey Map showing land around Moor Pool, Harborne
Section of the First Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIII, S.E. The map shows an area of Harborne that was developed rapidly during the thirty years between when this map was published ...
Perambulation of Boundaries of Edgbaston Parish
In October 1872, a group of seventeen men met at the Edgbaston Vestry Hall, and proceeded to Gooch Street to begin a ‘perambulation’ of the boundary of the Edgbaston Parish. The group included Vestry ...
Peter Stanford, 'From Bondage To Liberty' [1]
Photo of Sturge Statue (2006)
Image: Photograph of Sturge Statue(taken by Pete Ashton)
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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Photograph of Arthur Wallis as a child
Photograph of Dr Mary Sturge
This photograph accompanied a feature on Mary Sturge in Edgbastonia magazine. Mary Sturge was a pioneer of medical training for women, and also campaigned for women's suffrage. She was among the first ...
Photograph of group of nurses and infants at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Newhall Street
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital helped to cater for children suffering from, for example, disease of the bones and joints caused by tuberculosis.
Photograph of Helen Caddick
Helen Caddick, the traveller and diarist, was featured in Edgbastonia magazine in March 1900. This photograph illustrated that article.
Photograph of the rear of 12-13 Upper Priory Court by James Burgoyne
This is one of a series of photographs which Burgoyne made showing the conditions in slum properties in Birmingham. These were properties which were to be demolished as part of the 1870s Improvement Scheme. ...
Photographs of Norton Juvenile Offenders
The harsh discipline of the reformatory was reinforced through the use of stark uniforms. The uniform was intended to remove the child’s individual identity. Each new inmate in the reformatory was photographed. ...
Pigott-Smith Map of Birmingham
Section of map by John Pigott-Smith, Borough Surveyor of Birmingham Borough Council, showing back-to-back housing and courtyards, John Street, Dale End and surrounding streets prior to the implementation ...