Evidence from the Coroner’s inquest into the death of Kate Grosvenor
The home could often be a place of danger, particularly for poor families. Open fires were a constant hazard. This coroner’s inquest describes the case of Kate Grosvenor, aged 8. Her clothing caught fire ...
Evidence presented at the Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Sydney Clayton, aged 2 months
Sydney was the son of Francis Clayton, a navvy, and his wife Selina. The family were living in a ‘Gipsy’s Tent’ in Queen’s Head Lane, Handsworth when he suffered an accident. On the morning of 30th of ...
Exterior of Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage, Erdington by Sir Benjamin Stone
Like many Victorian civic buildings Mason’s Orphanage was monumental in scale, the building dwarfing its inmates. A digital enhancement of the photograph enables an adult figure to be seen in an open ...
Fairfield, 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green
This children’s home has been located on two different sites. The first Fairfield opened in 1973 at 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green. In 2004, it moved to Erdington.
The Dudley Park Road Fairfield ...
Family group
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Family in bedsit interior
Photograph of a woman and man with their two children in a bedsit interior. Photograph taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Family sitting at the table
Family sitting at the table
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Fancy Dress Costume worn by Florence Barrow
This fancy dress costume was worn by Florence Barrow, aged ten, in 1886 for the Lord Mayor's Children's Party. Florence was the daughter of Richard Cadbury Barrow and grew up in Edgbaston. Later she ...
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.
Fircroft Remand Home, Fircroft College, Bournville
The building was originally a home belonging to the Cadbury family but was turned into a college for disadvantaged people in 1909.
In the Second World War, Fircroft College was used temporarily to ...
Flint Green Residential Nursery, Sherborne Road, Acocks Green
Flint Green was opened as a war-time nursery offering 24 hours care on 18th May 1942 (the same day as the Meadway). It initially had accommodation for 65 children.
It was a three storey terraced building ...
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 ...
Food and Travel Expenses of Lizzie Lamb, age 17
This notebook is an account of Lizzie Lamb, an employee of Cadbury, for one week's record of expenses (food and travel).
Forhill House, Lea End Road, Bromsgrove
Barrow Cadbury, as a keen observer of remand work in the city, believed that the city needed a new type of remand home or observation centre where children could be observed for longer periods of time ...
Garth Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
During the Second World War, younger children in Erdington Cottage Homes were evacuated out of the city to a Youth Hostel in North Wales (known as Kings Nursery). The evacuation took place in 1941.
According ...
'Gays and Fascism'
LGBT people have faced serious prejudice and persecution in the past, and the cover of this issue of 'Gladrag' (the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front) reminds us both of the large numbers ...