'Being Marked Out'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards the medical and administrative staff. ...
'The Shadow', by W. L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of The "Southern" Cross (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘The Shadow’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. ...
The Old Oak, Selly Oak
Postcard from the Kesterton Postcard Collection, depicting the oak tree on Oak Tree Lane, marking the intersection between Harborne Lane, Oak Tree Lane and the Bristol Road.
Standard Municipal Housing Designs
Example of non-parlour class of council house, from a roll design templates in the records of Humphries & McDonald, Architects.
Sketches In The Condemned Localities
Ink print accompanying an article, originally printed in 'The Graphic' newspaper, depicting inhabitants of John Street in central Birmingham.
Homes for Birmingham: the Communist Party Plan
At the end of the Second World War public housing had become an increasingly contentious political issue. Both mainstream and fringe parties printed their own solutions for public circulation. Parties ...
Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt
This photograph was taken by a London-based photographer called Bill Brandt, forming part of an album in the Bournville Village Trust archive that remained unknown to the photographic world until the ...
Bath Row (Lee Bank) Redevelopment Area
This map demonstrates the way land was parcelled up, or ‘zoned’, to the south-west of Birmingham’s city centre after the Second World War. Zoning organised units of land for residential, commercial or ...
Birmingham's 40,000th Municipal House
Photograph originally published in the Birmingham Post depicting the opening of Birmingham's 40,000th municipal home by Neville Chamberlain.
Houses on Ravenhurst Road
This photograph provides visual evidence of the designs of houses on the Moor Pool Estate at Harborne. John Nettlefold was invited to become Chairman of Harborne Tenants Limited in 1907. Its most unique ...
Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt
Black and white photographic print by Bill Brandt depicting family sat in garden of a house on the Weoley Castle Estate.
Front Cover of the Weoley Castle Review
Weoley Castle Community Association newsletter, volume 2, number 11.
Harborne Tenants Ltd. House type 4L
Section from page 48 from a prospectus published by Harborne Tenants Limited showing one of a variety of housing designs used during the construction of the estate.
Ordnance Survey Map showing Weoley Castle Estate
Fourth Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIX, N.E. The map shows the layout of the housing estate, and compared to earlier maps of the area shows just how rapidly the area was redeveloped ...
Ordnance Survey Map showing land at Weoley Castle
Third Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIX, N.E. The map shows an area just to the west of Selly Oak, which had itself developed rapidly from the early 1870s.
Ordnance Survey Map showing land around Moor Pool, Harborne
Section of the First Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIII, S.E. The map shows an area of Harborne that was developed rapidly during the thirty years between when this map was published ...
'Workwell' Kitchen Range
Triplex 'Workwell' coal fired kitchen range, bearing the registration number '708307', with small fire place next to oven door with a range above. The two levers provide heat to the bottom and top sections ...
Thomas Bodkin file; Recommendations of the Land Tenure Committee
The West Midland Group for Post-War Planning and Reconstruction was a consultative body affiliated to the University of Birmingham, and included academics, city planners like Sir Herbert Manzoni, the ...