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 ...
Log Book of Pipewood Camp School for Evacuated Girls
The 1939 Camps Act established Camp Boarding Schools. Older girls from Birmingham Senior schools were evacuated to Pipewood Camp School in Blithbury near Rugeley which opened in June 1940. The teachers ...
Lok Mela Festival
Family group at the festival, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Mask making, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Urdu Times Stall, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Funfair, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Funfair at the festival, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Longmeadow Crescent Children's Home, Shard End
Longmeadow Crescent was a purpose-built children's home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built Shard End Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on ...
Lordswood Residential Nursery, Lordswood Road, Harborne / Red House, Droitwich
Lordswood Residential Nursery was the first of Birmingham’s residential nurseries, opening formally on 24th February 1928. The nursery accommodated 30 children aged 0 to 3 but was, at times, over capacity. ...
Ludford Road Children's Home, Bartley Green
Ludford Road was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds which opened in 1963. It was designed to be a family group home on the newly built Bartley Green Estate.
The home was part of a programme ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Martineau House, Towyn, North Wales
This house in North Wales was bought by the Education Committee in 1935 using a bequest from Councillor Clara Martineau.
Councillor Martineau, alongside other duties, sat on the Cottage Homes and Residential ...
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.
Meadway Residential Nursery, The Meadway, Kitts Green
The need for residential nurseries had become apparent in the Second World War with the Public Health, Maternity and Child Welfare Committee of Birmingham Council reporting on ‘the urgent necessity to ...