Records of New Meeting House Birmingham
Submitted by Michael Hunkin, Birmingham Archives and Heritage.
This report book was compiled by the Missionary appointed by the Church of the Messiah Sunday Schools and Home Mission. The reports are ...
Recruitment poster for the Warwickshire Volunteer Regiment
Rednal and the Lickey Hills
The watercolour Fair at the Lickey Hills was produced by Frank Lockwood in 1949. It featured Rednal Pleasure Fair and illustrated recreational options at the city's edge. The brashness of the fairground ...
Refreshment Tariff, Lisseter and Miller
Lisseter and Miller had been asked to quote for the supply of catering for the café in the Botanical Gardens. This is their proposed price list. A note at the top says 'approved'.
Refugees in Birmingham
Image: a photograph of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham. (Harry Levine, Press Cuttings, 1941 part 1).
Behind pictures such as these lies a complicated story. At least 6 million Jews were murdered under ...
Refugees in Birmingham
Image: Harry Levine, Newspaper Cuttings, sept-dec 1942 part 2.
This image features a group of Jewish Refugees in Birmingham, including a young child. Such children were at risk during WWII.
After ...
Register of Children, Marston Green Cottage Homes
For the Victorians orphans invited both pity and fear. They were pitied because they lacked family, but were feared because of what they might become as adults if they did not receive care, discipline ...
Relationships and Migration
Many migrants met partners and married once in Britain. Although not uncommon in post-war Britain, relationships between men and women from different ethnic backgrounds were far from widely accepted. ...
Remedial Electrical and Bed-frame Wiring Work in Highbury's Greenhouse
This photograph shows soldiers at work in a pioneering programme at Highbury Hospital to improve the care of the wounded. During the First World War the modern concept and practice of medical rehabilitation ...
Report from The Birmingham Post
John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. ...
Rev Peter Stanford.
Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possibly makes him Birmingham's first black minister. He also ...
Rev Thomas Swan
Image of Rev Thomas Swan, minister of the Cannon Street Baptist Church and member of the Birmingham Antislavery society. Birmingham City archives have some records of Swan which include an extract of ...
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 ...
Reynoldstown Road, Castle Bromwich
This children's home opened in 1967. It was in a purpose-built large house on the Bromford Bridge Estate very close to the M6 motorway.
It looked similar in design and style to the children's home ...
Rhoda Anstey (1865 – 1936)
Submitted by Dr Tansin Benn (Last appointed lecturer to Anstey College of Physical Education, 1981 - 1984) and Dr Ida Webb (Last female Principal Dr Ida Webb, student 1947 – 50, Principal 1969 – 1975), ...
Roland Grenade
This is a section of the Belgian Army hand grenade used by Allied forces at the start of WW1; William Mills, who had settled in Edgbaston and owned engineering factories in the suburbs, accepted commissions ...
Roller Skates
Ice skating on frozen ponds, boating pools and lakes in Birmingham’s parks was popular during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although restrictions were placed on the activity by the Parks ...
Roof
Roof, published by Shelter, was launched in 1975- "to provide a radical and informed forum for discussion of Britain's continuing-and worsening- housing crisis." (Roof Oct 1975 p.1) Roof's aim was to ...