Gospel Festival
This is a flyer for an American gospel festival which took place at Birmingham Town Hall on 1st February 1965. It was one show from a European tour of American black gospel music and included 'The Five ...
'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie
Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841).
‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together. In paintings like this, Wilkie presented an intimate ...
Graveyard of Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage by Sir Benjamin Stone
It is possible to see the surname of a child and their date of death in this photograph – Taylor 1905. The existence of the Orphanage’s graveyard is a physical reminder that child mortality was commonplace. ...
Group of children at circus
Group of children crossing the road
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing outside
'Gypsies near Bromford Forge', by Joseph Barber
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted. The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes ...
'Gypsies of the Sahara'
This photograph shows children in the Atlas Mountains.
'Gypsy Encampment' in Turkey
This photograph shows children on an encampment near Misopoli.
'Gypsy Encampment', Cookley
This photograph shows children on a traveller site on Whittington Lane, Cookley.
Handmade admission ticket to ‘The Consul’s Will’
Arthur Wallis (1874-1933), wrote under the pseudonym P. Bentley and produced scripts, advertising posters, admission tickets and ‘quotes from the critics’.
Hanuman Ji
Hanuman Ji (Deity), Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 28 October 2000.
Head of Jester's Bauble
Dr H.C. Crew of Oakswell House in Wednesbury carved this jester's bauble. He made it to entertain Belgian refugees who were staying in the upper floors of his house during the First World War. When the ...
Home Front
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by John Reardon and Derek Bishton taken for the 'Home Front' project which documented the lives and experiences of people living in the Handsworth area of Birmingham ...
Houses on Ravenhurst Road
This photograph provides visual evidence of the designs of houses on the Moor Pool Estate at Harborne. John Nettlefold was invited to become Chairman of Harborne Tenants Limited in 1907. Its most unique ...
Ice skating at Cannon Hill Park