Famine in Africa
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Mike Goldwater and Chris Steele-Perkins, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery 3-28 September.
Farm labourers at Booths Farm, Perry Barr by Sir Benjamin Stone
Parts of Birmingham were very rural until relatively recently and many children were employed in agricultural work.
Father and two children
Photograph of a father with his two children in a slum interior. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.
Female American Serenaders
This advertisement for the Female American Serenaders from 1847 represents a form of performance that was popular in Victorian England during the nineteenth century- blackface minstrelsy.
The performance ...
Fisk Jubilee Singers
The Jubilee Singers, The Ex-Slave Singers of Fisk University, At Birmingham Town Hall,February 26th and March 3rd, 1874.
Founded in Nashville in 1866, Fisk University was one of a number of educational ...
Floodgate Street School, Birmingham by Paulo Catrica
Floodgate Street Board School opened in 1891 in the heart of what was regarded as the worst slum area in Birmingham. It accommodated 1,115 children between the ages of 5 and 13. The area around the school ...
Floor tiles from 'Longworth', Edgbaston
These floor tiles, from 24 Priory Road, were rescued from the home of John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post from 1862 to 1898. His daughters Kate and Myra were students at the Birmingham ...
Freddie McGregor
Sandra Cross, Freddie McGregor, Winsome, photographed at Reggae Sunsplash, Clapham Common, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Gail Ann Dorsey : Singer/Bass Player
Gail Ann Dorsey, photographed in Birmingham, 1988. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Garba
Garba dance during the Hindu festival of Navratri, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 October 2000.
Girl in fancy dress presenting a bouquet to Elizabeth Cadbury at Bournville Children’s Festival
Girl in slum interior
Photograph of a little girl in a white dress in a derelict house. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Girl on swing
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Girl sweeping yard
Photograph of a girl sweeping a back yard, seen from above. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
Girls Exercising in the School Hall, Birmingham by William Woollaston
This image shows girls exercising with Indian clubs. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exercises being introduced into the curriculum. Such activities ...
Girls of Gower Street School, Ladywood, carrying maypoles
The street was the focus of community activities and celebrations of national events. Processions marked special days in the calendar such as May Day.
'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin
Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her parents both worked in a variety of media, with Georgie initially ...