Single Storey Dwellings for Aged People, by Manzoni
Watercolour artist impression by Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor, depicting layout of the kind of elderly person's maisonette-type dwelling built on new housing estates.
Ordnance Survey Map showing central Birmingham around John Street
Section of the First Edition Ordnance Survey map for Warwickshire, section XIV. 5. 8. At the top left corner a large section of housing on John Street has been removed, denoting the buildings demolished ...
Letter from Neville Chamberlain to Ida and Hilda [Chamberlain]
As Minister of Health, Neville Chamberlain was instrumental in legislating for affordable housing in Britain during the 1920s and 1930s. Housing subsidies were later extended to municipal housing schemes, ...
Pigott-Smith Map of Birmingham
Section of map by John Pigott-Smith, Borough Surveyor of Birmingham Borough Council, showing back-to-back housing and courtyards, John Street, Dale End and surrounding streets prior to the implementation ...
'Some Memories of a Northfield Woman by Margaret Smith'
This account by Margaret Smith provides a fascinating story of the journey of a working-class family from Selly Oak to various new homes across south-west Birmingham. She was born on 23 December 1927. ...
The Moor Pool News
The Moor Pool News was a newsletter printed for residents of the Moor Pool Estate, and appears to have only run for four years between 1910 and 1914. Like similar publications by the Bournville Village ...
The Moor Pool News
Cover of the Moor Pool Estate magazine, designed to publicise leisure and social activities, advertise local shops and businesses and provide other news for residents of the Moor Pool Estate.
Birmingham City Council Tenants Sub-Committee Minutes
The Tenants Sub-Committee was appointed in November 1922. It reported to the City Estates Committee, its chief function being to deal with applications for municipal housing. Estates Department officials ...
The Effect of Flat Dwelling on Children
Much of the new accommodation built after 1945 for the purposes of re-housing comprised increasingly taller, high-density tower blocks, many built in the five Redevelopment Areas. They also rose across ...
Councillor J.S. Nettlefold, J.P.
John Sutton Nettlefold became a key figure in the history of public housing in Birmingham, signalling the growing emergence of local government in the town planning process. Born in London, he later moved ...
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 ...
Municipal Flats, by unknown artist
Watercolour painting of municipal flats (probably at Lee Bank) under construction.
Junction of Park Hill Road and Moor Pool Avenue
Black and white photographic print showing land developed by Harborne Tenants Limited to build the new Moor Pool Estate.
Letter to Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor
Mr C.B. Parkes, Research Architect at the Bournville Village Trust, reports of a meeting he had with an American architect who had promised to send him the names of other architects who 'have the minds ...
Moor Pool Avenue
Black and white photographic print of housing on Moor Pool Avenue, showing unusually narrow street width.
Birmingham City Council Improvement Committee Minutes
The appointment of the Improvement Committee in July 1875 marked the earliest initiative by the City Council to tackle Birmingham’s slums. The originator of the scheme was the mayor, Joseph Chamberlain, ...
Caravans in Upper Ryland Road
Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industrial sector during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
News article referring to 'The New Slums'
The Birmingham Gazette article reported complaints made by a resident of Quinton to Birmingham's Licensing Justices regarding the building of a pub serving a new nearby housing estate.