Erdington Cottage Homes, Fentham Road: The Lodge / Orchardside
The Lodge was initially the home of the Cottage Homes porter and his wife. It also functioned as the receiving home for the Cottage Homes. The initial building was described as “a porter’s lodge and receiving ...
Down Your Way
This picture features residents from Castle Vale at the event that we held in the Resident’s Club in July 2009.
Sound It Out Community Music’s ‘Down Your Way’ Music and Heritage Project celebrates ...
WEA Development Education Project - Esmena Patricks
My name is Esmena Patrick and I was born in the Parish of St Catherine in Jamaica. I came to England on 20th November 1960. When the plane landed at Heathrow Airport I looked outside the window and ...
Register of horses belonging to various Council departments
Submitted by Michael Hunkin.
This record comprises the only surviving register of all of the horses owned by Birmingham Corporation, and covers the period 1899 – 1946. At this time the Corporation ...
Horses in the Fire Brigade
Unlike other departments, the Watch Committee also recorded the stock value of their horses when purchased. It would appear that committee officials frequently paid more than the stock value, suggesting ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 3
The Corner Shop site-specific promenade theatre performance was based on new research conducted with Black Country shopkeepers, their families and customers undertaken by community members. In autumn ...
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 ...
Poor girl in Sutton Park
The comments about the domestic circumstances were very personal, going beyond dry reportage, and it is clear he often found his work an emotional strain. Here he describes visiting a family living in ...
Martha Beatrice Webb (1863-1951)
Submitted by Alison Smith, Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service.
Martha Beatrice Webb, teacher, physician and pioneer of social medicine in Birmingham was born in Furness Vale, Cheshire in 1863. ...
Her career in medicine
The Conservatory at the General Hospital circa 1900. Image from the WPS wk-b11-1312
During Martha's lifetime there were great developments in women’s higher education and in the role of women in the ...
"We Should Remember Them": John Charles Pockett (1884-1916)
[Submitted by Ray Middleton]
John Charles Pockett was my wife’s grandfather. He was born on the 7th June 1884 at 23 Manchester Street, Cheltenham, the second child of Elizabeth Sophia Pockett. He was ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 2
For over many decades now small shops have been adapting to changing circumstances to survive and to meet the needs of new communities.
The inspiration behind this shop front collection of images ...
The Corner Shop, Black Country - Gallery 1
The Corner Shop is a social history project charting the changing nature of small shops in the Black Country over the past 60 years.
In addition to this presence on the Internet by the Connecting ...
Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor.
The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is now the World's largest after New York and Dublin.
On ...
"Sangeeta Redgrave: Diwali Celebrations"
A collection of photographs taken by Sangeeta Redgrave (nee Chauli) during the Hindu festival of Diwali.
This photograph is of Lakshmi Puja, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham, ...
"Triangle Photography Gallery Posters"
Derek Bishton was director of the Triangle Photography Gallery, part of the Triangle Arts and Media Centre at Gosta Green, Birmingham, between c.1984 and 1987. These are some of the posters advertising ...
"Handsworth Self Portrait"
A selection of photographs from the 'Handsworth Self Portrait' project.
Handsworth-based photographers Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon organised the self-portrait project in autumn ...