Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a Birmingham-based reggae band. The band was formed in around 1975 whilst its members were still at school when they would meet on a Sunday to play cover versions of their favourite songs ...
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 ...
Stirchley Library - exterior
Lewis Lloyd’s photograph of Stirchley Library was taken in 1913 for the Warwickshire Photographic Survey, now held at Birmingham Central Library. Not long opened at this date, the library was constructed ...
Stirchley Library - interior
Lewis Lloyd captured an important aspect of Edwardian society with this photograph. Still without full electoral suffrage, women found that libraries offered opportunities for them to relax and to gain ...
Street Boys in Greece
This photograph shows 'street boys' in Patras.
Street scene
Photograph of women and children in street. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
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 ...
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. 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 ...
Tamasha Theatre Company
Formed in 1989 by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, Tamasha Theatre Company was designed to reflect through theatre 'the Asian experience.' Using classic texts and work by contemporary writers, ...
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 ...
'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 Standard Newspapers Trial
The University of Birmingham Special Collections hold a range of legal documents pertaining to the Cadbury Bros Ltd v The Standard Newspapers Limited legal case. The range of documents include a ‘Statement ...