Records of New Meeting House Birmingham
Submitted by Michael Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
This report book was compiled by the Missionary appointed by the Church of the Messiah Sunday Schools and Home Mission. The reports are ...
Rednal Children's Home
This children's home in Rednal was built as what was known as a 'family group home' in 1951 on the Rednal House Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's ...
Rednal Road Hostel for Working Girls, West Heath
In the late 1960s, despite there being plans in place for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and one in Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was outstripping the ...
Refreshment Tariff, Lisseter and Miller
Lisseter and Miller had been asked to quote for the supply of catering for the café in the Botanical Gardens. This is their proposed price list. A note at the top says 'approved'.
Refugees in Birmingham
Image: Harry Levine, Newspaper Cuttings, sept-dec 1942 part 2.
This image features a group of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham, including a young child. Such children were at risk during WWII.
After ...
Register of Children, Marston Green Cottage Homes
For the Victorians orphans invited both pity and fear. They were pitied because they lacked family, but were feared because of what they might become as adults if they did not receive care, discipline ...
Relationships and Migration
Many migrants met partners and married once in Britain. Although not uncommon in post-war Britain, relationships between men and women from different ethnic backgrounds were far from widely accepted. ...
Removing Offering from Shrine
Removing offering from shrine, Shri Guru Ravidas Temple, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Report from The Birmingham Post
John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. ...
Reynoldstown Road, Castle Bromwich
This children's home opened in 1967. It was in a purpose-built large house on the Bromford Bridge Estate very close to the M6 motorway.
It looked similar in design and style to the children's home ...
Rhoda Anstey (1865 – 1936)
Submitted by Dr Tansin Benn (Last appointed lecturer to Anstey College of Physical Education, 1981 - 1984) and Dr Ida Webb (Last female Principal Dr Ida Webb, student 1947 – 50, Principal 1969 – 1975), ...
Roller Skates
Ice skating on frozen ponds, boating pools and lakes in Birmingham’s parks was popular during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although restrictions were placed on the activity by the Parks ...
Roof
Roof, published by Shelter, was launched in 1975- "to provide a radical and informed forum for discussion of Britain's continuing-and worsening- housing crisis." (Roof Oct 1975 p.1) Roof's aim was to ...
Rose Sidgwick
This photograph reveals both Rose Sidgwick’s love of learning and her informal approach, both of which endeared her to students at the University of Birmingham. She was described as having a ‘freshness ...
Rosemary, Irene and Michael in the garden at St. Loes by William Smedley Aston
William Smedley-Aston (1868-1941) was an Arts and Crafts photographer. His wife Irene is shown here with two of their children, Michael and Rosemary. The couple were friends with other members of the ...
Roundlea Road Children's Home, Weoley Castle
This purpose-built children’s home with eight beds opened in 1953 on the newly built Woodcock Hill Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly ...
Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner, photographed at Reggae Sunsplash, Clapham Common, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
School Board Classes for Deaf Children
Group photographs of school children were commonplace in the late 19th century. With the establishment of mass schooling after the 1870 Education Act local School Boards organised classes for children ...