Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Mothers Day Service
Mothers Day Service, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Mount Street recreation ground
Munitions Training at Birmingham Technical School
In addition to an application form for training men and youths in the manufacture of munitions of war, this letter includes rules for armaments classes and a timetable for the instruction of disabled ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have two elder sisters and a younger brother.I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles. My father was a retired military officer. ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
This is my grandfather's funeral. He is in the middle of the picture.
This picture is of him being sat upright before his burial.
On the left of the picture is my father, and third from right is ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have two elder sisters and a younger brother. I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles.
My father was a retired military ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have lived all my life in Handsworth and my family came to this country in 1963.
At that time we lived together in the houses with Afro Caribbean people. I lived with mixed families up until 1974. ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I got married in 1957. My parents arranged my marriage and that was the tradition of those days. Bride and bridegroom had no say in the choice of their partners. Those marriages lasted for a long time, ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I joined Indian Workers Association in late sixties and was a trade union shop steward.
I am very proud of the Indian Workers Association because of the help and advice that I received from the comrades. ...
My journey to and Life in Britain
I have two elder sisters and a younger brother.I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles. My father was a retired military officer. ...
'My Second Sermon', by Millais
'My Second Sermon', by John Everett Millais (1829-1896), shows a girl asleep in a church with her legs dangling uncrossed. No Bible can be seen. It is one of a pair of paintings, the other being 'My First ...
Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of the armed forces
This photograph shows Neville Chamberlain addressing a meeting of soldiers at a civic meeting as Lord Mayor of Birmingham, an office to which he was appointed in 1915; Prime Minister David Lloyd George ...
Neville Chamberlain, by Basil Byng
Pencil portrait.
New Testament Church of God Choir
Choir, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
News Article on a 'Garden for the Blind'
This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s Park, Harborne on 31 July 1953.1 The Parks Committee minutes ...
News Article on 'Suicide in Cannon Hill Park'
There are a surprisingly large number of references in the Birmingham Daily Post between 1857 and 1900 to suicide or attempted suicide in Calthorpe and Cannon Hill parks. This evidence gives an insight ...
News article referring to 'The New Slums'
The Birmingham Gazette article reported complaints made by a resident of Quinton to Birmingham's Licensing Justices regarding the building of a pub serving a new nearby housing estate.