Stevens Avenue Children's Homes, Bartley Green
In the early 1970s, nine purpose-built children’s homes were built, each of which could house 18 children. One of these was Stevens Avenue which opened in 1974.
The 1950s and 1960s had seen small ...
Stirchley High Street (now the Pershore Road)
This image is from the golden age of picture postcards and depicts Stirchley in its Edwardian hey-day. Its origins as an industrial village are not apparent and it is not yet overshadowed by the gentility ...
Street Sign - Court 4
Example of oval-shaped sign used to mark the tunnel-like entrances to the courtyards behind back-to-back houses, usually addressed in censuses and directories with the court number before the house address ...
Summer Hill, 19 Summer Hill Terrace, Ladywood
In 1905, the Birmingham Board of Guardians bought a house on Summer Hill Terrace to use as the city’s first receiving home for children. Its purpose was to relieve overcrowding in the cottage homes by ...
Sunday Sports in our Public Parks
This pamphlet was issued in protest at proposals to relax restrictions on the playing of football, cricket and other sports in Birmingham's parks on Sundays.
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 18), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1952 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 196), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1953 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
'Sympathiser'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their carers.
Illustration from The ...
TASCoS Box of Bicarbonate of Soda
Ten Acres and Stirchley Co-operative Society [TASCoS]
The carton for bicarbonate of soda was purchased from the TASCoS chemist in Stirchley. Also known as baking soda, this key ingredient in bread ...
TASCoS Choral Society
This advertisement for TASCOS Choral Society appeared in the handbook for Stirchley Spring Bazaar, 1911. The Choral Society fulfilled social and campaigning roles for the local co-operative movement. ...
TASCoS Contribution Card
Such cards enabled members to access the ‘divi’, possibly the most familiar aspect of co-operative societies and certainly a key element in fostering loyalty and affection. The payment of a dividend from ...
TASCoS Rule Book
The success of the co-operative movement owed much to its ability to operate within political and economic niches. This was both facilitated and constrained by legislation which placed obligations on ...
TASCoS Sports Pavilion at Lifford
This pavilion was designed by Henry Simister, consulting architect for Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society. Recreational activities were important elements of the co-operative movement. Whilst ...
Tennal School, Balden Road, Harborne
Tennal’s roots are in the 19th century when Birmingham’s first ragged school was founded as St Philip’s Free Industrial School in 1847. As a ragged school, free education was given to poor children who ...
'The "Southern" Cross'
This is the cover of the first issue of The "Southern" Cross, the magazine of the First World War military hospital based on the University campus at Edgbaston. In his Foreword, Lt-Colonel Marsh (Hospital ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows an outdoor performance presented by the Birmingham Athletic Club (BAC) in an open-air ward at the 1st Southern General Hospital at Edgbaston. The Club was directed principally as ...
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
This photograph shows VAD nursing staff with WW1 wounded soldiers in the Great Hall main ward (Aston Webb building) of Southern General military hospital on the Edgbaston campus.
The 1st Southern General Military Hospital, Edgbaston
WW1 wounded soldiers from Autralia and Scotland join other Allied patients to pose with VAD nurses in the grounds of the Edgbaston military hospital.