Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 7 / Lilac View
Home 7 was not one of the initial homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex. It was built a few years later – probably one of the two homes built in 1893 or 1905.
As one of the homes ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 8 / Melplash
Home 8 was one of the first homes built in the Cottage Homes complex and was initially built to house 24 boys. For the first few years, it was isolated on the side of the Drive opposite the Lodge as the ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 9 / The Trees
Home 9 was not one of the initial homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex. It was built a few years later – probably one of the two homes built in 1893 or 1905. According to published ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Sick Bay / Pinewood
This building was initially known as the infirmary and was very much like a small hospital built in the grounds of the cottage homes. It was one of the first buildings opened on the Cottage Homes site ...
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: The Lodge
The Lodge was one of the homes within Shenley Fields Cottage Homes.
When they were built by the Kings Norton Union, the Cottage Homes aimed to accommodate orphaned, abandoned or destitute children ...
Sheridan Walk Children's Hostel, Castle Vale
Sheridan Walk was opened in 1966 as a hostel for working girls – young women who had left school but who were still in care. As such, they were generally aged between 16 and 18.
According to careleaversreunited.org, ...
Shoemaking, Norton Reformatory Annual Report
Children were educated and trained in various trades, including shoemaking, gardening, tailoring and farming.
Single Storey Dwellings for Aged People, by Manzoni
Watercolour artist impression by Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor, depicting layout of the kind of elderly person's maisonette-type dwelling built on new housing estates.
Sir Benjamin Stone and Children in the UK
Sir John Benjamin Stone was born in Aston in 1838 and educated at King Edward's School on New Street, Birmingham. He joined his father’s glass manufacturing business, eventually succeeding him as director. ...
Sir Gilbert Barling
In 1920, Barling observed that the education of ‘workmen’ should equip them for ‘the duties of citizenship and for an effective share in the control of industry’.1 As Vice Chancellor of the University ...
Sir William Ashley's Working Notes
This report is discussed elsewhere (see University Council Minutes), forming as it does part of the official university record. This working copy is in a different context, being included in Sir William ...
Sketch for Peace, by Joseph Southall
This sketch is from a collection of material relating to the artist Joseph Southall held at the Birmingham Museum and Art Galleries. Southall was born into a Nottingham Quaker family in 1861. On the death ...
Sketch of Tank in Calthorpe Park
In WW1 the National War Saving Committee raised funds for the war effort though the Tank Bank scheme; tanks were exhibited in cities to promote and sell war bonds by public subscription; Birmingham was ...
Sketches In The Condemned Localities
Ink print accompanying an article, originally printed in 'The Graphic' newspaper, depicting inhabitants of John Street in central Birmingham.
'Some Memories of a Northfield Woman by Margaret Smith'
This account by Margaret Smith provides a fascinating story of the journey of a working-class family from Selly Oak to various new homes across south-west Birmingham. She was born on 23 December 1927. ...
St Athan Croft Children's Home, 34 St Athan Croft, Castle Vale
This children’s home on St Athan Croft was opened in 1967.
When it opened it was a new build – a large detached house - on the newly built Castle Vale housing estate. It was in close proximity to another ...
Standard Municipal Housing Designs
Example of non-parlour class of council house, from a roll design templates in the records of Humphries & McDonald, Architects.
Statue of Bishop Gore, St Philip's Cathedral
Bishop Gore, Sweated Labour and Workers’ Education
This photograph was taken by the City Council’s Information Department in the 1950s for inclusion in an official guide and it celebrates Birmingham’s ...