Children playing on Suffolk Street by A. G. Davis
Children playing on the street
Photograph taken by Bill Brandt (1904-1983), from a series for the Bournville Village Trust.
Photograph courtesy of Bournville Village Trust.
Children playing with building blocks
Children Receive Bread at Worcester Cathedral
This photograph shows the distribution of bread in the Chapter House at Worcester Cathedral. This formed part of the cathedral's charitable bequests.
Children sitting by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children standing outside
Children taking part in a protest for the introduction of road crossings
Children taking part in May Day celebrations at Knutsford, Cheshire by Sir Benjamin Stone
Many of the boys are dressed as soldiers or in patriotic outfits. This is probably a reflection of the fact that Britain was fighting in the South African (or Boer) War at the time.
Children wearing satchels
Children with their family on a canal boat
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted.
Other children lived in barges. Their families made a living ...
Children’s Hospital Special Appeal
In 1886 the Children’s Hospital organised a campaign to raise funds to stop a ward from closing with the loss of ten beds. The Children’s Hospital was dependent on charity and donations in order to deliver ...
China
Originally captioned 'Chinese Girls of Hong Kong.' From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Chinnbrook Community Centre
Representative of a community centre movement which developed in the inter-war period, this post-war example served the Yardley Wood and Billesley estates. Such centres offered recreational and educational ...
Choir Boys at Worcester Cathedral
This photograph shows the choir boys of Worcester Cathedral in the Chapter House. They are wearing red cassocks.
Choir Member
Choir member, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 112), Handsworth Wood
112 Church Lane was purchased towards the end of 1970 for use as a children’s home. After being adapted, it was opened in the early 1970s.
It was a three storey building about 60 years old when it ...