Faces and Places: Henry Gunter
Henry Gunter (1920-2007)
Submitted by: Fiona Tate
Henry Gunter (1920-2007), was born in Portland, Jamaica. He studied accountancy at Commercial College there and worked in Panama and the U.S.A. ...
Faces and Places: Horace Halliburton
Submitted by Birmingham Stories
In 1949, the Birmingham Gazette ran a series of articles highlighting an episode of social unrest that took place in the Causeway Green hostel. The disturbances apparently ...
Faces and Places: John Suffield
John Suffield, ‘the liveliest… of the happy band of ninety-year olds’
[Submitted by Maggie Burns]
John Suffield of Birmingham lived to the grand age of ninety-seven. He was born in Old Lamb House, ...
Faces and Places: Sarwan Singh and the Indian Workers Association
[Submitted by Sarwan Singh]
On the 3rd of October 2008 Birmingham Stories held an event entitled 'Race and Racism' in Birmingham Central Library. At this session, Dr Kevin Searle introduced the new ...
Faces and Places: Stuart Blofield's Story
This article was kindly sent to the Birmingham Stories project by Mr Stuart Blofield, who grew up in the Birmingham Edgbaston area and now lives in Bath. The newspaper story describes Stuart's experience ...
Faces and Places: The Middlemore Archive Collection
[Submitted by Angela Skitt, Birmingham Archives and Heritage Department]
The Middlemore Homes were founded in 1872 by John Throgmorton Middlemore as the ‘Children’s Emigration Homes’. The first ...
Faces and Places: Thomas Ewart Mitton
Submitted by Maggie Burns, Birmingham Archives and Heritage
Thomas Ewart Mitton, called Ewart (his family name)in this article, born in April 1897, died young. Like most of his generation he enjoyed ...
Fairfield, 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green
This children’s home has been located on two different sites. The first Fairfield opened in 1973 at 20 Dudley Park Road, Acocks Green. In 2004, it moved to Erdington.
The Dudley Park Road Fairfield ...
Faiths, Journeys, Jewels: Jacob Jacobs and Birmingham
[Submitted by Dr Andy Green]
Introduction: Rediscovering the Past
From a sign on a wall, it is sometimes possible to uncover a whole history. Buildings that we walk past every day can often hold ...
Family group
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Family in bedsit interior
Photograph of a woman and man with their two children in a bedsit interior. Photograph taken in Liverpool by Nick Hedges.
Family of J.H.A. Majendie Esq. MP at Headingham Castle, Essex by Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914)
The conditions in which children lived depended on their social class and the economic circumstances of their family. Children from well off families lived in comfortable homes surrounded by their possessions. ...
Family sitting at the table
Family sitting at the table
Slum Housing, near the Malden Road, London.
Famine in Africa
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Mike Goldwater and Chris Steele-Perkins, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery 3-28 September.
Fancy Dress Costume worn by Florence Barrow
This fancy dress costume was worn by Florence Barrow, aged ten, in 1886 for the Lord Mayor's Children's Party. Florence was the daughter of Richard Cadbury Barrow and grew up in Edgbaston. Later she ...
Farm labourers at Booths Farm, Perry Barr by Sir Benjamin Stone
Parts of Birmingham were very rural until relatively recently and many children were employed in agricultural work.
Father and two children
Photograph of a father with his two children in a slum interior. Taken in Moss Side, Manchester by Nick Hedges.