Sunday Sports in our Public Parks
This pamphlet was issued in protest at proposals to relax restrictions on the playing of football, cricket and other sports in Birmingham's parks on Sundays.
Reverse of Commemorative Medal
Medal issued to mark the opening of Calthorpe Park. 'To commemorate the auspicious visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge to the town of Birmingham on the occasion of the opening of Calthorpe ...
Postcard of Moseley Park & Pool
This postcard shows the pool in Moseley Park. The park was created from part of the grounds of Moseley Hall, and opened to keyholders in 1899.
Letter from Mary Endicott Chamberlain to her Mother
In this letter Mary Endicott Chamberlain describes her attendance at the opening of Moseley Park and Pool.
Deed of Gift for Cannon Hill Park
This plan shows the land given by Louisa Ann Ryland to Birmingham Corporation to form Cannon Hill Park, which was opened in September 1873.
Boys in Calthorpe Park
This photograph shows a group of boys in Calthorpe Park. Their clothing suggests that they are from working-class or lower middle-class backgrounds. It is easy to imagine that they might have found themselves ...
Bomb Damage to Birmingham Parks
Many parks across Birmingham sustained damage during the Second World War. The Parks Committee minutes contain details of the effects of each air raid on the park buildings and landscape. This is the ...
Birmingham Parks Police
This photograph was taken for an album containing scenes in the parks during the Edwardian period. The Parks Police were a regular presence and were responsible for keeping order and challenging would-be ...
Birmingham Daily Post Article
This report discusses an incident in Cannon Hill Park, in which Charles Cartwright's carriage was pelted with snowballs as he drove through the park on the morning of Sunday 10 January. The article expresses ...
Birmingham Boys and Girls Union Report
The caption underneath this photograph of boys who attended the junior boys club organised by the Birmingham Boys and Girls Union illustrates the anxieties that many middle-class reformers had about working-class ...
Bandstand at Calthorpe Park
This photograph shows crowds of people listening to a music performance in the park.
Police Whistle
Whistle used by Birmingham City Police. Officers from this force patrolled the city's parks until the formation of the Parks Police in 1912
WEA Development Education Project - Edna Davies
My name is Edna Davis. I was born in Jamaica, West Indies in the parish of St. Mary, in a little district called Preston. I am a Caribbean and I have lived in Yardley, Birmingham for six years and forty ...
"Birmingham's Council-run Children's Homes"
Between 2009 and 2010 a small team, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Birmingham City Council, set about creating a history and archive of Birmingham's many Council-run children's homes between ...
City of Birmingham Housing Estates
Plan showing location of municipal housing estates in Birmingham in 1931, Weoley Castle situated to the south-west of the city.
Gas Wash Boiler
Example of the type of modern labour-saving household applicance often found in new municipal homes during the 1930s.
Shenley Fields Cottage Homes: Home 6 / Greenways
Home 6 was not one of the initial homes built in the Shenley Fields Cottage Homes complex. It was built a few years later – probably one of the two homes built in 1893 for 24 children. As such, it would ...
Acorn Grove Children's Home, Ladywood
In 1970, Ladywood was a Redevelopment Area and, to make way for the new development, many of the old streets had been demolished. Garbett Street was one such street which no longer existed by the end ...