Street Children in Italy
This photograph shows 'street loiterers' in Milan.
Street scene
Photograph of women and children in street. Taken in Salford by Nick Hedges.
Study for 'The Beloved', by Rossetti
This drawing was made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) as a study for a painting, ‘The Beloved’ (‘The Bride’), which features models of different ‘races’. The dark skin of the boy is contrasted with ...
Summer Hill, 19 Summer Hill Terrace, Ladywood
In 1905, the Birmingham Board of Guardians bought a house on Summer Hill Terrace to use as the city’s first receiving home for children. Its purpose was to relieve overcrowding in the cottage homes by ...
Sunday School Anniversary Parade
Methodist Sunday School Anniversary Parade, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 18), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1952 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 196), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1953 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sutton Road Children's Home, Erdington
The building that was to become the children's home on Sutton Road was originally built as a doctor’s house. It was purchased by the Council in 1966, adapted and opened as a children’s home in 1967.
A ...
Syan Blake
Syan Blake, Actor: "My definition of success is a life in which you regret nothing."
Photograph by Robert Taylor. Produced for the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers' ...
Sybil Phoenix MBE
Sybil Phoenix MBE, Founder and Director of Marsh Phoenix Memorial Trust: "The most challenging aspect is the counselling work that I do. It makes you weep and it makes you happy. It's difficult but rewarding. ...
TASCoS Box of Bicarbonate of Soda
Ten Acres and Stirchley Co-operative Society [TASCoS]
The carton for bicarbonate of soda was purchased from the TASCoS chemist in Stirchley. Also known as baking soda, this key ingredient in bread ...
TASCoS Choral Society
This advertisement for TASCOS Choral Society appeared in the handbook for Stirchley Spring Bazaar, 1911. The Choral Society fulfilled social and campaigning roles for the local co-operative movement. ...
TASCoS Contribution Card
Such cards enabled members to access the ‘divi’, possibly the most familiar aspect of co-operative societies and certainly a key element in fostering loyalty and affection. The payment of a dividend from ...
TASCoS Rule Book
The success of the co-operative movement owed much to its ability to operate within political and economic niches. This was both facilitated and constrained by legislation which placed obligations on ...
TASCoS Sports Pavilion at Lifford
This pavilion was designed by Henry Simister, consulting architect for Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society. Recreational activities were important elements of the co-operative movement. Whilst ...
Tennal School, Balden Road, Harborne
Tennal’s roots are in the 19th century when Birmingham’s first ragged school was founded as St Philip’s Free Industrial School in 1847. As a ragged school, free education was given to poor children who ...
Testimony
Testimony, African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
The Standard Newspapers Trial
The University of Birmingham Special Collections hold a range of legal documents pertaining to the Cadbury Bros Ltd v The Standard Newspapers Limited legal case. The range of documents include a ‘Statement ...