Canal Boat Hostel, Wood End Lane, Erdington
The Canal Boat Hostel in Wood End Hall was not a children’s home as such. It was a hostel providing what was presumably temporary accommodation for canal boat children.
It was established in 1951 by ...
Cannon Hill Park Open-Air Swimming Pool
There were open-air swimming pools at Cannon Hill Park, and at Victoria Park, Small Heath. The pool at Cannon Hill Park was opened at the same time as the park, in September 1873, while the pool at Victoria ...
Cannon Hill Park postcard
This scene shows people of all ages enjoying the green space that Cannon Hill Park provided. The boy in the postcard has his bicycle propped against the tree, hinting at the restrictions on cycling in ...
Caravans in Upper Ryland Road
Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industrial sector during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...
Carpenter’s Mill, with Birmingham in the distance
This drawing gives a vivid impression of Edgbaston's rural landscape in the nineteenth century. St Thomas's Church, The Windmill on Holloway Head and St Martin's Church are visible in the distance.
Case Notes for Ellen Allport, 1873-1880, All Saints Mental Health Casebook
Other children with health and learning problems were less well served. In the middle of the 19th century Birmingham opened a Lunatic Asylum for Paupers in Winson Green. Extensive records were kept about ...
Certificate for Long Service at Cadbury
This certificate was awarded to Amelia Drew, an employee of Cadbury, after seventeen years service. It was awarded on the fifth of April 1930. Amelia Drew began working for the company in 1913, and as ...
Chaddesley Residential Nursery, Meadow Road, Edgbaston
Oakhill House (31 Meadow Road) was opened in 1968 as a reception centre. The following year the facilities at Oakhill were extended by leasing a house farther up Meadow Road.
The new house was a three-storey ...
Child looking out of window
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Children and Adults at the Theatre
This photograph shows an old fashioned theatre at Lichfield Greenhill Bower Fair. The theatre was owned by the Holloway Family.
Children at a street party to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in Dartmouth Street
Street parties celebrated moments of national significance like royal events, the Boer War or the end of World War 2. At other times the street and public spaces became the focus of popular protest and ...
Children by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children feeding a swan
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children in abandoned car, Lozells
Most working class homes were so small and overcrowded that there was little space to play indoors. Parents encouraged their children to play outside in the street. The street became a place for running, ...
Children in Classroom, Sir Josiah Mason's Orphanage by Sir Benjamin Stone
This photograph shows that all of the girls are dressed uniformly and the age range of the girls in the orphanage. It also shows school desks and some teaching equipment. The space is large but is heated ...
Children in Summer Lane
Many of the back-to-back courts in the city had a large number of children living in them. The children of Summer Row were among the poorest in Birmingham, as we can see from their clothes and the boy ...
Children on a Birmingham Co-operative Society float at the May Day parade
Children on a see-saw
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding.