Manningford Road Children's Home, Druids Heath
The children’s home on Manningford Road opened in 1967 or early 1968.
It was a new-build in close proximity to another children’s home, built at the same time, on Bicknell Croft.
The home was part ...
Map of Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Today's Cross City Line between Birmingham New Street Station and Kings Norton follows the former Birmingham West Suburban Railway.1 Opened in 1876, this key route has had a significant, yet varied, impact ...
Margery Fry
In 1904, Margery Fry became the warden of the women’s residence at the University of Birmingham. After war-time relief work, she became an influential penal reformer and advocate for higher education. ...
Marston Green Cottage Homes, Coleshill Road
Towards the end of the 19th Century, it was decided that keeping children in the workhouse with adults was no longer desirable. To this end, the Board of Guardians in Birmingham decided to build cottage ...
Matron Lloyd
This photograph shows Matron Lloyd in her office at the Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston; she became famous as Birmingham's "Lady of the Lamp"; as well receiving several honours for her work ...
Memorial Birdbath to Rose Sidgwick
Rose Sidgwick (1877- 1918)
This memorial stands in the grounds of Birmingham Business School, formerly University House, in Edgbaston Park Road. It commemorates the life of Rose Sidgwick, a pioneer ...
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 House, Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak
Middlemore House was one of the buildings owned by the Middlemore Emigration Homes – an independent organisation which emigrated children to Canada and Australia.
When emigrations were curtailed by ...
Middleton Hall Road Children's Home, Northfield
The children's home on Middleton Hall Road was in a detached house which the Council bought in 1966. It was adapted to accommodate 14 children.
The house, built in 1901, was a large, and rather grand ...
Middleway View Road Hostel for Working Children, Ladywood
In the 1960s, despite plans underway for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and at Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was still outstripping the number of beds ...
Mills Grenade
This First World War hand grenade is one of the original ‘Mills Bombs’ manufactured at the Mills Munitions Factory in Bridge Street West, Newtown, Birmingham, which supplied the bomb to the British and ...
Minutes of Edgbaston Archery Association AGM
The Edgbaston Archery Association (later the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Association) was formed in 1860. Membership was carefully controlled: ‘applicants for admission to be proposed by a Member, ...
Miss Caroline Bishop’s Kindergarten
Children are grouped around Caroline Bishop at her kindergarten. From their clothes it is clear that the children are from middle class homes.
The ‘Kindergarten’ was the earliest form of the modern ...
Moor Pool Avenue
Black and white photographic print of housing on Moor Pool Avenue, showing unusually narrow street width.
Moseley Children's Home
This detached house was bought by the Council in 1966 with the intention of adapting it to accommodate between 12 and 14 children.
According to the electoral roll, the live-in house parents from when ...
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.