Perry Villa, 155 Church Road, Perry Barr
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 ...
Photograph of a class from Nelson Street School
The photograph comes from an album to commemorate the laying of the foundation stone of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and contains photographs of individual children and school groups who contributed ...
Photograph of Arthur Wallis as a child
Photograph of children on a ward
Concerns for the health and welfare of children in the 19th century led to the establishment of children’s hospitals. Prior to the emergence of these specialist institutions children were generally treated ...
Photograph of children playing outside a Birmingham convalescent home
Photograph of group of nurses and infants at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Newhall Street
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital helped to cater for children suffering from, for example, disease of the bones and joints caused by tuberculosis.
Photograph of Joscelyne with her mother and her sister Margaret in front of a bookcase by William Smedley Aston
Photograph of Joscelyne’s sister Margaret and their father in front of a bookcase by William Smedley Aston
Photographs by Bill Brandt
The following photographs by the British photographer Bill Brandt (1904-1983) were taken for the Bournville Village Trust from 1939-1943.
Exhibition compiled by Dr Nicola Gauld
Photographs by Lisel Haas
The photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989) was born in Germany. She was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany. She initially applied to the USA for asylum but was turned down and came to Birmingham in 1938. ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust by Bill Brandt
This photograph shows members of the Dawson family who moved from a back-to-back house in Hockley to a maisonette in Harborne. They subsequently moved to a modern house on the Weoley Castle Estate. The ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943 showing a girl on a swing by Bill Brandt
Bournville Village Trust was established by George Cadbury in 1900 to manage his model village at Bournville. It had a longstanding interest in improving housing conditions for the working classes. In ...
Photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, 1939-1943, showing a family at the dinner table
This photograph was taken on the Weoley Castle Estate. The shot is clearly posed. Another photograph showing the family in the garden reveals how high the window was from the ground. The child could never ...
Photographs of Norton Juvenile Offenders
The harsh discipline of the reformatory was reinforced through the use of stark uniforms. The uniform was intended to remove the child’s individual identity. Each new inmate in the reformatory was photographed. ...
Plan for a Midlands Arts Centre for Young People
This plan formed part of a proposal prepared by John English concerning the establishment in Cannon Hill Park of a Midland Arts Centre, which he hoped would be administered by an independent trust. The ...
Plan of Uffculme Open-Air School
Uffculme Open-Air School opened in 1911 in the grounds of the Uffculme estate, between Moseley and Kings Heath. The land was provided by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury, whose son Paul had benefitted from ...
Policeman with children, Warley Park
Poor girl in Sutton Park
The comments about the domestic circumstances were very personal, going beyond dry reportage, and it is clear he often found his work an emotional strain. Here he describes visiting a family living in ...