Quinton, Harborne and Edgbaston Town Planning Scheme Map
This map illustrates one of Birmingham’s first comprehensive town planning schemes to regulate suburban development in south-west Birmingham. What is remarkable when comparing it to maps from just 20 ...
Ration Book
While the later 1950s would be characterised by Harold MacMillan’s assertion that ‘you’ve never had it so good’, 'Austerity Britain’ lasted well into that decade. This ration book was allocated to a resident ...
Records of New Meeting House Birmingham
Submitted by Michael Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
This report book was compiled by the Missionary appointed by the Church of the Messiah Sunday Schools and Home Mission. The reports are ...
Rednal Children's Home
This children's home in Rednal was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1951 on the Rednal House Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's ...
Rednal Road Hostel for Working Girls, West Heath
In the late 1960s, despite there being plans in place for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and one in Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was outstripping the ...
Refreshment Tariff, Lisseter and Miller
Lisseter and Miller had been asked to quote for the supply of catering for the café in the Botanical Gardens. This is their proposed price list. A note at the top says 'approved'.
Register of Children, Marston Green Cottage Homes
For the Victorians orphans invited both pity and fear. They were pitied because they lacked family, but were feared because of what they might become as adults if they did not receive care, discipline ...
Remedial Electrical and Bed-frame Wiring Work in Highbury's Greenhouse
This photograph shows soldiers at work in a pioneering programme at Highbury Hospital to improve the care of the wounded. During the First World War the modern concept and practice of medical rehabilitation ...
Report from The Birmingham Post
John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. ...
Reverse of Commemorative Medal
Medal issued to mark the opening of Calthorpe Park. 'To commemorate the auspicious visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge to the town of Birmingham on the occasion of the opening of Calthorpe ...
Roller Skates
Ice skating on frozen ponds, boating pools and lakes in Birmingham’s parks was popular during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although restrictions were placed on the activity by the Parks ...
Rose Sidgwick
This photograph reveals both Rose Sidgwick’s love of learning and her informal approach, both of which endeared her to students at the University of Birmingham. She was described as having a ‘freshness ...
Roundlea Road Children's Home, Weoley Castle
This purpose-built children’s home with eight beds opened in 1953 on the newly built Woodcock Hill Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly ...
School Board Classes for Deaf Children
Group photographs of school children were commonplace in the late 19th century. With the establishment of mass schooling after the 1870 Education Act local School Boards organised classes for children ...
School Children in a Class for Deaf Students
This photograph by W. Woollaston shows children in a class for deaf students. Classes were originally run by the Birmingham School Board.
School Children in a Cookery Class
This photograph by W. Woollaston shows school children being taught how to make pastry.
School Children in a Drawing Class
This photograph by William Jerome Harrison shows an art lesson at Icknield Street Board School.
School Children in a French lesson
This photograph by W. Woollaston shows children at Waverley Road School in a French lesson.