Floor tiles from 'Longworth', Edgbaston
These floor tiles, from 24 Priory Road, were rescued from the home of John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post from 1862 to 1898. His daughters Kate and Myra were students at the Birmingham ...
Food and Travel Expenses of Lizzie Lamb, age 17
This notebook is an account of Lizzie Lamb, an employee of Cadbury, for one week's record of expenses (food and travel).
Front Cover of the Weoley Castle Review
Weoley Castle Community Association newsletter, volume 2, number 11.
Garth Nursery, Dolgellau, Gwynedd
During the Second World War, younger children in Erdington Cottage Homes were evacuated out of the city to a Youth Hostel in North Wales (known as Kings Nursery). The evacuation took place in 1941.
According ...
Gas Wash Boiler
Example of the type of modern labour-saving household applicance often found in new municipal homes during the 1930s.
Gay Liberation Front
The 1970s saw the emergence of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front, the rise of feminism and the beginnings of a ‘gay scene’ in the city, although much effort went into more practical matters like the ...
'Gays and Fascism'
LGBT people have faced serious prejudice and persecution in the past, and the cover of this issue of 'Gladrag' (the newsletter of the Birmingham Gay Liberation Front) reminds us both of the large numbers ...
George and Elizabeth Cadbury with their children
Families were often larger than today, and the death of one parent often resulted in extended step-families. George Cadbury had five children with his first wife Mary Tylor: George junior and Edward ...
Girl in fancy dress presenting a bouquet to Elizabeth Cadbury at Bournville Children’s Festival
Girl in slum interior
Photograph of a little girl in a white dress in a derelict house. Taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Girl on swing
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Girl sweeping yard
Photograph of a girl sweeping a back yard, seen from above. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
Girls Exercising in the School Hall, Birmingham by William Woollaston
This image shows girls exercising with Indian clubs. A growing concern for the health and welfare of school children led to physical drill and exercises being introduced into the curriculum. Such activities ...
Girls of Gower Street School, Ladywood, carrying maypoles
The street was the focus of community activities and celebrations of national events. Processions marked special days in the calendar such as May Day.
'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin
Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her parents both worked in a variety of media, with Georgie initially ...
Gospel Festival
This is a flyer for an American gospel festival which took place at Birmingham Town Hall on 1st February 1965. It was one show from a European tour of American black gospel music and included 'The Five ...
'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie
Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841).
‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together. In paintings like this, Wilkie presented an intimate ...