Memorial celebrating Abolition of the Apprenticeship System
Memorial presented to each Sunday scholar in Birmingham who 'Joined in Celebrating the Freedom of the Negroes'.
On 1 August 1838, Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) led a march from Birmingham Town Hall to ...
Merrishaw Road Children's Home, Longbridge
Merrishaw Road Children's Home was a purpose-built home designed as what was known as a ‘family group home' on the newly-built West Heath housing estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s ...
Middlemore children on board ship on route to Australia
Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore (1844-1924). His mission was to ‘save boys and girls from lives of crime and pauperism’ in the slums of Birmingham and believed they ...
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 Munitions Workers
This photograph shows the staff of the Mills Munitions Factory in Bridge Street West, Newtown, Birmingham, which supplied the 'Mills Bomb' hand grenade to the British and Allied armies throughout the ...
Milton Grange
Milton Grange children's home was originally located in two large adjoining houses on the corner of Forest Road and Church Road in Moseley.
The Council converted the buildings and opened them as a ...
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 ...
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.
Mount Street recreation ground
'My Second Sermon', by Millais
'My Second Sermon', by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), shows a girl asleep in a church with her legs dangling uncrossed. No Bible can be seen. It is one of a pair of paintings, the other being 'My First ...
Newton Street Remand Home, Birmingham City Centre
Not far from the Law Courts, the Newton Street premises were given to the city by Geraldine and Barrow Cadbury in 1928.
At the time, the remand home is described as having the juvenile court below ...
Nicholls Street Children's Home, West Bromwich
Nicholls Street was not in Birmingham but in West Bromwich. It had been in use as a children’s home in, and for, West Bromwich. Once it was empty, Birmingham took it over.
It was a three storey terraced ...
Norman Chamberlain
Norman Chamberlain was the paternal cousin of Neville Chamberlain. He was Chairman of the Parks Committee of Birmingham City Council between 1912 and 1914, when he volunteered to serve in the First World ...