The House that Jack Built. A diverting story for children of all ages
The earliest books written specifically for children were educational. In the late 19th century children’s literature tended to be limited to the middle and upper classes. However with the development ...
The Limes, Bristol Road, Selly Oak
When Riversdale was no longer adequate as the only girls’ hostel in Birmingham, it was proposed that a building which had been requisitioned farther down Bristol Road, number 214, could be adapted to ...
The Lord Mayor's European Famine Fund
Minute Book of the Lord Mayor of Birmingham’s European Famine Fund.
The Lord Mayor’s Fund was established by William Adlington Cadbury in December 1919 to provide aid to starving women and children ...
The Marquess of Donegall as a child by Sir Benjamin Stone
Edward Arthur Donald St George Hamilton Chichester (1903-1975) was Sixth Marquess of Donegall. It was not unusual for boys to wear dresses until the age of 4 or 5 when they were ‘breeched’ or put into ...
The Men's and Girls' Works Committees
The following photographs depict the Men’s and Girls' Works Committees at Cadbury in 1907. The Works Committees were established in 1905 as management committees. The Girls' Committee consisted of nine ...
The Montserrat Company and Birmingham
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Birmingham Local Studies and History, WPS photographs, New Street Collection 29-89. No 30.
Birmingham in 1885, looking down New Street. The building on the left in Christchurch, demolished ...
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.
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 Oaklands, Selly Oak
The Selly Oak Receiving Home, as it was initially known, existed to take in children before a more permanent arrangement was made for them. The home functioned from at least 1912, possibly earlier.
In ...
The photographer’s daughter, Rosemary, on the beach at Deganwy by William Smedley Aston
William Smedley-Aston (1868-1941) was an Arts and Crafts photographer. His daughter, Rosemary, is shown here on the beach at Deganwy. Rosemary, who was born in 1907, became a medieval historian.
'The Pied Piper and the Children of Hamelin'
This photograph shows children performing in a play at Stratford on Avon.
The Saltley News
The Saltley News was produced by Birmingham Community Development Project- a government initiative aimed at addressing social deprivation in a number of British cities. The first issue of the Saltley ...
The Severn Street School
Image: Photograph from 'The Story of the Severn Street and Priory First-day Schools, Our Jubilee Year' by William White (1895).
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The Shelter Archive: Photographs by Nick Hedges
Between 1968 and 1972 Nick Hedges made a series of photographs for the national housing charity 'Shelter'. Launched in December 1966 (the same month as Ken Loach's influential television drama 'Cathy ...
The Sins of Our Cities by Our Resident Special Commissioner, III. Birmingham The Modern Review, No. 5
The Sins of Our Cities described how for many children their ‘surroundings were vile, their associates vicious, their homes wretched. ’ Lacking adult moral guidance children were seen as being at risk ...
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...
The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter (1866–1943)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit was the first of twenty-two ‘little books’ written and illustrated by Potter, with many of them featuring her own pets—Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Mrs Tiggy-Winkle, and Samuel ...
The Uplands, 33 Greenhill, Blackwell
In the Worcestershire countryside to the south-west of Birmingham, the Uplands was acquired for use as a reception centre in 1967.
The building, dating from the end of the 19th century, had previously ...