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School Children in their Classroom

This photograph by W. Woollaston shows children in their classroom nursing.

School Children in Warwickshire

Children are shown with their teacher in Astley, Warwickshire.

School Children Learn about Insects

This photograph by W. Woollaston shows school children being taught about insects.

School Children Performing First Arm Exercise

This photograph by W. Woollaston shows children in the playground performing "First Arm Exercise" at Somerville Road School.

School photo c.1993

"This is a school photograph. I remember starting at my local school in Ersel..." "My first memory is being the first black person in the classroom, and everybody's looking at you. I was nervous actually..." "The ...

School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants

The album consists of fourteen photographs. There are images of children on an outing to the countryside, of children dressing up and of children standing next to some plants with the caption, ‘Beans ...

School Photographs Floodgate Street Infants

This photograph was not fixed in the album. It was produced and published to be sold locally by a professional photographer. It is a very carefully posed image. The children have been organised to give ...

Selly Oak Children's Home

In the early 1970s, six purpose-built children’s homes were built each of which could accommodate 18 children. A further three such homes were built in the mid-1970s. This home in Selly Oak was one of ...

Selly Oak Nursery temporary accommodation

Play was central to the child’s kindergarten experience. The sandpit, the wooden horse, and the different creative activities on each table all encouraged play. Froebel believed that play was educational ...

Selly Oak Nursery, 26 Tiverton Road

Selly Oak Nursery opened in a new building in 1921. Fresh air and allowing children to move freely between inside and outside was a key feature of the Nursery’s design. The classroom is spacious and ...

Selly Park Children's Home

Work started on building a new children’s home in Selly Park in 1973. This was at a time when there was significant building of children’s homes going on in Birmingham – the first six 18-bed homes had ...

Selly Wick Road Children's Home, Selly Oak

In 1974, a house at 16 Selly Wick Road, just down the road from an existing children’s home, Brooklands, was adapted to be a home for six children with learning disabilities. This appears to have been ...

Service Girls’ Home, 33 Beaufort Road, Ladywood

The Service Girls’ home at 375 Moseley Road was considered to be inadequate by the Board of Guardians who ran it so a house on Beaufort Road was leased and adapted to replace it. The new service girls’ ...

Service Girls’ Home, 375 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath

The idea of the service girls’ home was that it would be for older girls under the care of the Guardians, who had finished their schooling and training, and would be found jobs in domestic service (generally ...

Shawbury Approved School / Shustoke Industrial School for boys

Shustoke Industrial School opened in 1868 in the premises of ‘The Shawberries’ a Georgian country house. The industrial schools were originally intended to take in children who were destitute or in ...

Shelfield Road Children's Home, Kings Heath

This children's home was built as a 'family group home' or ‘scattered home’ on the Brandwood Park Estate in 1951. It was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly ...

Shenley Field Cottage Homes: Home 2 (Rose Cottage) / Suncrest

Home 2, or Rose Cottage as it was occasionally known, was one of the homes within Shenley Fields Cottage Homes. When they were built by the Kings Norton Union, the Cottage Homes aimed to accommodate ...

Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Bythorn

Initially known as the Matron’s House, Bythorn was built after the initial phases of building in the Shenley Field Cottage Homes. We believe the Matron's House opened in 1935. As it was initially called ...