Letter from Mary Endicott Chamberlain to her Mother
In this letter Mary Endicott Chamberlain describes her attendance at the opening of Moseley Park and Pool.
Letter from Mollie Cadbury to her parents, 26 April 1915
Marian Janet Greeves (née Cadbury) enrolled with the British Red Cross in April 1915 at the age of twenty-one. Like her brother Laurence she saw service in Belgium during World War One. As a Red Cross ...
Letter from Mr Bloxham to George Edwards
Mr Bloxham, an Edgbaston resident, writes to the Estate Office of his landlord Lord Calthorpe objecting to plans to convert the Edgbaston reservoir on Hagley Road into a public park.
Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Ida and Hilda [Chamberlain]
As Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain was instrumental in legislating for affordable housing in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Housing subsidies were later extended to municipal housing schemes, ...
Letter from Norman Chamberlain to Boys Club Members
Norman Chamberlain wrote this letter to members of the Boys Club he organised, to be read in the event of his death while serving in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He encourages them ...
Letter to Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor
Mr C.B. Parkes, Research Architect at the Bournville Village Trust, reports of a meeting he had with an American architect who had promised to send him the names of other architects who 'have the minds ...
Letter to the Guild of Undergraduates, University of Birmingham
This letter was written to the Guild President, Humphrey Humphreys, by solicitors acting for the American skating rink who had refused entry to a student from West Africa. The letter expresses regret ...
Letter to the Reverend Thomas Swan
Accounts regarding '£50,000 noted by Parliament in 1835-36 for negro education', from the reverse of letter to Rev. Thomas Swan from W. Hawkins, March 20th 1837.
The Reverend Thomas Swan (died 1857) ...
Lewis Lloyd (1870-1940)
Lewis Lloyd was Honorary Secretary of the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA), Birmingham Branch. He was also a keen photographer, recording public libraries whose crucial role in adult education was ...
Lifford Lane Railway Bridge
Stirchley’s Railway Infrastructure
Frank Lockwood depicted a scene that had been familiar for over a hundred years but which would disappear within ten years of this watercolour's production. Steam ...
Lionel Richie
Lionel Richie, photographed in Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, 2004. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Locomotive and Tender built for the Pitmaston Moor Green Model Railway
Just outside the boundaries of the Edgbaston Calthorpe Estate lay Sir John Holder’s estate at Pitmaston, close to Joseph Chamberlain’s home at Highbury. The Holders were brewers – a magnificent tiled ...
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
Lahori Kulfi Food Stand, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Dupatta Stand, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Family group at the festival, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Crowds 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.