Packington Avenue Children's Home, Shard End
Packington Avenue was a purpose-built home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built Shard End Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing ...
Page from the album of photographs for the Bournville Village Trust, showing scenes of urban childhood by Bill Brandt
Most working class homes were so small and overcrowded that there was little space to play indoors. Parents encouraged their children to play outside in the street. The street became a place for running, ...
Panjabi Dawn
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Nirmal Singh Dhesy, Larrie Paul Tiernan and Herbie Lawes, held at the Triangle gallery cafeteria 1 July-2 August 1985. The exhibition was organised by the Sikh ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat's Parents and Great Grandparents worked for an English Lord.
The Lord moved to England- Pats father decided to stay with his grandparents in Ireland.
His father was a red coat who worked with ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Family and traditional Irish life:-
Pat has 7 siblings- 5 boys and 2 girls
all Limerick born.
Pat's family had a happy, humble upbringing -lots of hand me down clothes- often went to school in ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat left Ireland in 1961 and came to England as there was no work at home. Invited here by his school friend Tony, who’d been in Birmingham a year already. Pat had previously driven the donkey to the ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat met his wife Bridget when they got talking on the bus as she was going to mass.
She had come to England from Galway, Ireland around the same time as Pat. She worked in a typing pool for the Automobile ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
First career in Birmingham was as a Trainee Bus Conductor in Harborne. His friend was working as one and got him a job at a depot.
Pat found it very difficult to understand people in the city- he just ...
Paul Robeson
In 1949 Birmingham was host to two performances by American actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson. Both concerts took place at Birmingham Town Hall and one was organised in conjunction with the Birmingham ...
'Peace?', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to an issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘Peace?’. It is one of a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant W.L. Sherwood, ...
Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund Day at Manor Farm Park
A number of ‘Fresh Air’ funds were set up in both Britain and North America during the late nineteenth century, to provide days out or sometimes summer holidays, in the countryside, to children from low ...
Pearson’s Fresh Air Fund Day at Manor Farm Park
One of a series of photographs documenting days out at Manor Farm Park for children from city centre schools, run by Pearson's Fresh Air Fund with the assistance of Elizabeth Cadbury who offered the use ...
'People Who Ought To Be "Strafed"', by B. Howells
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their visitors.
Illustration from The ...
Perambulation of Boundaries of Edgbaston Parish
In October 1872, a group of seventeen men met at the Edgbaston Vestry Hall, and proceeded to Gooch Street to begin a ‘perambulation’ of the boundary of the Edgbaston Parish. The group included Vestry ...
Peter Stanford, 'From Bondage To Liberty' [1]
Photo of Sturge Statue (2006)
Image: Photograph of Sturge Statue(taken by Pete Ashton)
Joseph Sturge was a nineteenth century antislavery campaigner living in Birmingham.
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Photograph of Arthur Wallis as a child
Photograph of Cadbury's Forewomen
This photograph forms part of an archive of photographs produced by Cadbury. Each photograph was catalogued and annotated. Some images were used in publications and advertisements, whilst others were ...