Sunday Sports in our Public Parks
This pamphlet was issued in protest at proposals to relax restrictions on the playing of football, cricket and other sports in Birmingham's parks on Sundays.
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 18), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1952 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 196), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1953 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sutton Road Children's Home, Erdington
The building that was to become the children's home on Sutton Road was originally built as a doctor’s house. It was purchased by the Council in 1966, adapted and opened as a children’s home in 1967.
A ...
Swimming Costume
Woman's woollen one-piece bathing costume.
Syan Blake
Syan Blake, Actor: "My definition of success is a life in which you regret nothing."
Photograph by Robert Taylor. Produced for the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers' ...
Sybil Phoenix MBE
Sybil Phoenix MBE, Founder and Director of Marsh Phoenix Memorial Trust: "The most challenging aspect is the counselling work that I do. It makes you weep and it makes you happy. It's difficult but rewarding. ...
'Sympathiser'
This is one of several caricatures published by wounded soldiers in the Edgbaston WW1 military hospital magazine that express deeply conflicted feelings towards their carers.
Illustration from The ...
Synagogue on Severn Street
Photograph of Severn Street(taken by Dr Andy Green).
In 1809, the Birmingham Jewish community had grown and a new synagogue was built on Severn Street. This building still stands (situated behind the ...
Tamasha Theatre Company
Formed in 1989 by Sudha Bhuchar and Kristine Landon-Smith, Tamasha Theatre Company was designed to reflect through theatre 'the Asian experience.' Using classic texts and work by contemporary writers, ...
TASCoS Box of Bicarbonate of Soda
Ten Acres and Stirchley Co-operative Society [TASCoS]
The carton for bicarbonate of soda was purchased from the TASCoS chemist in Stirchley. Also known as baking soda, this key ingredient in bread ...
TASCoS Choral Society
This advertisement for TASCOS Choral Society appeared in the handbook for Stirchley Spring Bazaar, 1911. The Choral Society fulfilled social and campaigning roles for the local co-operative movement. ...
TASCoS Contribution Card
Such cards enabled members to access the ‘divi’, possibly the most familiar aspect of co-operative societies and certainly a key element in fostering loyalty and affection. The payment of a dividend from ...
TASCoS Rule Book
The success of the co-operative movement owed much to its ability to operate within political and economic niches. This was both facilitated and constrained by legislation which placed obligations on ...
TASCoS Sports Pavilion at Lifford
This pavilion was designed by Henry Simister, consulting architect for Ten Acres & Stirchley Co-operative Society. Recreational activities were important elements of the co-operative movement. Whilst ...
Tennal School, Balden Road, Harborne
Tennal’s roots are in the 19th century when Birmingham’s first ragged school was founded as St Philip’s Free Industrial School in 1847. As a ragged school, free education was given to poor children who ...
Testimony
Testimony, African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
'The "Southern" Cross'
This is the cover of the first issue of The "Southern" Cross, the magazine of the First World War military hospital based on the University campus at Edgbaston. In his Foreword, Lt-Colonel Marsh (Hospital ...