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 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.
Bridgetown
Photograph of the principal street in Bridgetown, Barbados, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
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, ...
'Bucking Up The Boys', by E. Lawrence Levy
In this book Lawrence Levy wrote a vivid account of the WW1 hospital entertainments provided by his variety troupe the Birmingham Athletic Club, whose Gymnasium was on King Alfred's place (now the site ...
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 ...