Middlemore House, Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak
Middlemore House was one of the buildings owned by the Middlemore Emigration Homes – an independent organisation which emigrated children to Canada and Australia.
When emigrations were curtailed by ...
Middleton Hall Road Children's Home, Northfield
The children's home on Middleton Hall Road was in a detached house which the Council bought in 1966. It was adapted to accommodate 14 children.
The house, built in 1901, was a large, and rather grand ...
Middleway View Road Hostel for Working Children, Ladywood
In the 1960s, despite plans underway for building two new homes for working children (Allenscroft Road and at Warstock), the Children’s Committee felt that need was still outstripping the number of beds ...
Mills Grenade
This First World War hand grenade is one of the original ‘Mills Bombs’ manufactured at the Mills Munitions Factory in Bridge Street West, Newtown, Birmingham, which supplied the bomb to the British and ...
Mills Munitions Workers
This photograph shows the staff of the Mills Munitions Factory in Bridge Street West, Newtown, Birmingham, which supplied the 'Mills Bomb' hand grenade to the British and Allied armies throughout the ...
Milton Grange
Milton Grange children's home was originally located in two large adjoining houses on the corner of Forest Road and Church Road in Moseley.
The Council converted the buildings and opened them as a ...
Minutes of Edgbaston Archery Association AGM
The Edgbaston Archery Association (later the Edgbaston Archery and Lawn Tennis Association) was formed in 1860. Membership was carefully controlled: ‘applicants for admission to be proposed by a Member, ...
Miss Caroline Bishop’s Kindergarten
Children are grouped around Caroline Bishop at her kindergarten. From their clothes it is clear that the children are from middle class homes.
The ‘Kindergarten’ was the earliest form of the modern ...
Montage
My board reflects the many Cultural Obstacles we are faced with now in this day and age. Our roots, our environment, our culture and our heritage.
The bottom of the board is about me and my surroundings, ...
Moor Pool Avenue
Black and white photographic print of housing on Moor Pool Avenue, showing unusually narrow street width.
Moseley Children's Home
This detached house was bought by the Council in 1966 with the intention of adapting it to accommodate between 12 and 14 children.
According to the electoral roll, the live-in house parents from when ...
Moses Roper
Moses Roper appears to have been in Birmingham around 1835. 'A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery' was published the same year, giving information about his life ...
Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
Interviewed when Bishop of Stepney: "I think the greatest mistake people make... is to have a half-hearted attitude. An African proverb is: 'We are people through other people: I am because I belong to ...
Mother and child window shopping
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.
Mother and three children
Photograph of mother holding a baby with two other children in a slum interior. Taken in Balsall Heath by Nick Hedges.
Mother and two children in slum kitchen
Photograph of a mother and her two children in a slum kitchen. Taken in Balsall Heath, Birmingham by Nick Hedges.
Mothers Day Service
Mothers Day Service, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Mount Street recreation ground