Letter from Mary Endicott Chamberlain to her Mother
In this letter Mary Endicott Chamberlain describes her attendance at the opening of Moseley Park and Pool.
Letter from Mr Bloxham to George Edwards
Mr Bloxham, an Edgbaston resident, writes to the Estate Office of his landlord Lord Calthorpe objecting to plans to convert the Edgbaston reservoir on Hagley Road into a public park.
Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Ida and Hilda [Chamberlain]
As Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain was instrumental in legislating for affordable housing in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Housing subsidies were later extended to municipal housing schemes, ...
Letter from Norman Chamberlain to Boys Club Members
Norman Chamberlain wrote this letter to members of the Boys Club he organised, to be read in the event of his death while serving in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He encourages them ...
Letter to Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor
Mr C.B. Parkes, Research Architect at the Bournville Village Trust, reports of a meeting he had with an American architect who had promised to send him the names of other architects who 'have the minds ...
Letter written by Henry Bate from Canada
In this letter Henry describes life in Canada which was very different to life in a city slum. Some of the children were better off in Canada as John Middlemore had hoped. However, others experienced ...
Locomotive and Tender built for the Pitmaston Moor Green Model Railway
Just outside the boundaries of the Edgbaston Calthorpe Estate lay Sir John Holder’s estate at Pitmaston, close to Joseph Chamberlain’s home at Highbury. The Holders were brewers – a magnificent tiled ...
Maggie Waters, Welsh milk maid by Sir Benjamin Stone
Man and children in attic flat, Liverpool 8 by Nick Hedges
This photograph shows a father and his three children in their one room attic flat. Liverpool 8 was one of the worst slums in the UK and many people were forced to live in squalid rooms in multi-let properties. ...
May Day Festivities in Cheshire
Some of the children were dressed up as Boer soldiers and in a procession in Knutsford, Cheshire.
May Day Festivities in Cheshire
Some of the children were dressed up as 'gypsies, with stained faces' for the procession through Knutsford, Cheshire.
Men's Tennis Trousers
These flannel tennis trousers were probably worn by Alderman Wilfred Byng Kenrick. The Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Society declared in 1879 that ‘each Member (Gentleman) playing Tennis shall wear ...
Middlemore children on board ship on route to Australia
Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore (1844-1924). His mission was to ‘save boys and girls from lives of crime and pauperism’ in the slums of Birmingham and believed they ...
Mother and child window shopping
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Mother and three children
Photograph of mother holding a baby with two other children in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath by Nick Hedges.
Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
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 ...
Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of the armed forces
This photograph shows Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of soldiers at a civic meeting as Lord Mayor of Birmingham, an office to which he was appointed in 1915; Prime Minister David Lloyd George ...