Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Handsworth Self Portrait - Untitled
Photograph from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn 1979. They built a ...
Hans Schwarz with his wife Lena and one of his sons
Hans met his future wife Lena, a student at Birmingham University, on a tram in Birmingham. They were married in 1943 and had two sons. Hans went on to be a well-known painter, illustrator, and sculptor. ...
Hans Schwarz, aged 16
After Hitler’s rise to power in Germany, British relief agencies were concerned about the fate of Jewish children. The British Government was reluctant to allow too many Jewish refugees to enter Britain ...
Hawthorne House, Hamstead Hall Road, Handsworth
Hawthorne House was opened as a residential nursery in 1948 as part of a phase of residential nursery development that took place during the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath.
In the ...
Highgate Close Children's Home, Highgate
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were opened each of which could accommodate 18 children. 22 Highgate Close was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed children's ...
Hillmount Close Working Girls' Hostel, Stratford Road, Hall Green
Mirroring the working boys’ homes in Duchess Road, the Children’s Committee decided that they would like very similar premises for two new hostels for girls but, unlike the Duchess Road hostels, they ...
Hockley Children's Home
Work started on building a children’s home in Hockley in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going on – the first six 18-bed homes had recently been completed ...
Hospital Street, Newtown
In the very early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could house 18 children. Hospital Street was one of these, opening in 1972.
The idea for the 18 bed unit came from ...
Howard House, Villa Walk, Newtown
Howard House was established as a working boys’ home in 1968 as one of the units replacing Copeley Hill Hostel when it was forced to close because of the development of the Gravelly Hill Interchange (Spaghetti ...
Hyperion Road Working Girls' Hostel, Castle Bromwich
The working girls' hostel on Hyperion Road was opened in 1967 on the Bromford Bridge Estate.
Hyperion Road was not a purpose-built children's home. Instead, it was two houses which were made available ...
Ice skating at Cannon Hill Park
Illustrated script to ‘The Consul’s Will’ by Arthur Wallis
Arthur Wallis (1874-1933), wrote plays with his brothers to entertain the family at Christmas, including ‘The Consul’s Will’ which he wrote when he was 15.
Individual boy in uniform, Norton Reformatory
Drill was part of the regular routine for boys at Norton. The reformatory also had a cadet corp.