'Two children painting' in Sparkbrook
Evidence of children’s creativity in the past is difficult to find. Drawings, paintings and stories produced by children rarely enter the archive or the museum. Many such items were stored by parents ...
Two women with children in the street
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Two young girls with grandmother
University of Birmingham Council Minutes
At this Special Meeting of the University of Birmingham Council on 11 August 1914 action was agreed to immediately implement previously agreed directives to hand over the university buildings on the Edgbaston ...
University of Birmingham Great Hall as a Military Hospital Ward
The story of the 1st Southern General Hospital in Edgbaston starts with the work of Lord Haldane, whose reforms as Minister of War between 1905 and 1912 included the creation of the Territorial Army. ...
View of New Tower Blocks and Infrastructure, by Reginald Edgecombe
Reginald Edgecombe was a designer commissioned by the Council to produce artist’s impressions of what Birmingham might look like post-war once reconstruction was complete. A collection of his watercolour ...
Views in St Thomé and Angola by William Cadbury and Joseph Burtt
This photograph album was produced as a limited run of 50 copies by Cadbury and supported William Cadbury’s 1909 publication Labour in Portuguese West Africa. The album and book documented William Cadbury ...
'Visiting Day at Dudley Road Section', by Will Adams
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 ...
Waiting with Garlands
Sikh men with garlands, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
War Munitions Volunteer Badge
This badge was in use from 1916 and was assigned to skilled men not already involved in other vital war work; they were issued by the Ministry of Munitions for employees of official armaments companies ...
'War', by W.L. Sherwood
This dramatic frontispiece to the fourth issue of 'The Southern Cross' (the Edgbaston military hospital magazine) is entitled simply ‘War’. It is the third in a series of visionary works by Staff Sergeant ...
Warwick Pageant
This photograph shows a scene from the Warwick Pageant, with the child selected to act out a sacrifice.
Warwick Pageant Rehearsal
This photograph shows school children attending a rehearsal of the Warwick Pageant.
Watercolour depicting A Bournville Workroom, attributed to H.N. Bradbear
Two images that typify the depiction of Cadbury and, indeed, the image of its female employees in the early twentieth century, are the watercolour design of A Bournville Workroom, c.1910, attributed to ...
Watercolour depicting East Indian Labourers, by Jeanne Borde
In 1903, Jeanne Borde's watercolour of East Indian Labourers was used on the cover of Brandon Head’s book, The Food of Gods.1
1 Brandon Head, The Food of Gods: A Popular Account of Cocoa (1903)
Watercolour depicting Harvesting Cocoa Pods, by Jeanne Borde
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery’s collections include artwork associated with Cadbury during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The earliest images are a group of watercolours produced ...
Watercolour depicting Cadbury's Girls' Ground, by H.N. Bradbear
‘[Where] industrial life today is concerned, Work and Play are not only closely related subjects, but one subject’.1
The classic image of the Cadbury’s girl at leisure, in the early twentieth century ...
Watercolour depicting Cadbury's Q Block, by Frederick Taylor
The watercolour design by Frederick Taylor of Q Block was reproduced as a colour print in various publications, including the centre-fold to Bournville Work and Play.1 Q Block was described as a large ...