Grantham children’s home
In the early 1960s, there were significant increases in the number of children coming into care in Birmingham. Despite the new family group homes, the city felt that it still had insufficient children’s ...
Graveyard of Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage by Sir Benjamin Stone
It is possible to see the surname of a child and their date of death in this photograph – Taylor 1905. The existence of the Orphanage’s graveyard is a physical reminder that child mortality was commonplace. ...
Great Colmore Street, Lee Bank
New council flats being built on slum clearance land off Great Colmore Street in the Lee Bank Redevelopment Area.
Great Western Arcade
Image of the Great Western Arcade today.
Greenhouse Corridor at Highbury Hospital
This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers relaxing during a break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence of Joseph Chamberlain) in the Mosley ...
Group of children at circus
Group of children crossing the road
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing in street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Group of children playing outside
Guru Nanak Assembly
Assembly at Civic Centre, Wolverhampton, to welcome Guru Nanak, 1977. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Gwen Lally, Pageant Master
On the 2nd February 1938, the Birmingham Mail announced that Miss Gwen Lally (1882-1963) would direct the Birmingham Pageant to celebrate the centenary of the Charter of Incorporation, to be held in July ...
Gymnasium at Highbury Hospital
This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers on the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence of Joseph Chamberlain) in the Mosley suburb of Birmingham. ...
'Gypsies near Bromford Forge', by Joseph Barber
There have been Romany travellers or ‘gypsies’ in Britain since the 1500s, and from the beginning they were suspected and persecuted. The first evidence we have of a travelling family in Birmingham comes ...
'Gypsies of the Sahara'
This photograph shows children in the Atlas Mountains.
Gypsy camp, Black Patch, Handsworth by C. L. Stait
'Gypsy Encampment' in Turkey
This photograph shows children on an encampment near Misopoli.
'Gypsy Encampment', Cookley
This photograph shows children on a traveller site on Whittington Lane, Cookley.