Children on climbing frame
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children on swings
Municipal Estate, Kingstanding, 1939
Children on the street in Aston
Children Playing at the Botanical Gardens
Holidays were mainly the preserve of the middle classes in the late nineteenth century – the poor had very little time off and very little spare money to spend. A public park therefore provided a unique ...
Children playing football in Holliday Road, Handsworth by Vanley Burke
This photograph is part of a Digital Handsworth online gallery: Vanley Burke Galleries
Photograph copyright: Vanley Burke
Children playing on Suffolk Street by A. G. Davis
Children playing on the street
Photograph taken by Bill Brandt (1904-1983), from a series for the Bournville Village Trust.
Photograph courtesy of Bournville Village Trust.
Children sitting by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children taking part in a protest for the introduction of road crossings
Children’s Hospital Special Appeal
In 1886 the Children’s Hospital organised a campaign to raise funds to stop a ward from closing with the loss of ten beds. The Children’s Hospital was dependent on charity and donations in order to deliver ...
Church Lane Children's Home (no. 112), Handsworth Wood
112 Church Lane was purchased towards the end of 1970 for use as a children’s home. After being adapted, it was opened in the early 1970s.
It was a three storey building about 60 years old when it ...
City of Birmingham Housing Estates
Plan showing location of municipal housing estates in Birmingham in 1931, Weoley Castle situated to the south-west of the city.
City Road, Edgbaston
This children's home was opened in 1967 in two adjoining (semi-detached) houses. The use of the houses as a children’s home was thought to be only temporary because of a planned road-widening scheme which ...
Commemorative Medal
Medal issued to mark the opening of Calthorpe Park.
Contributions of Africans in Birmingham from 1950
Introduction
This exhibition offers an insight into the experience of African migrants in Birmingham since 1950. In the sixty years since 1950 Birmingham has changed beyond all recognition physically, ...
Copeley Hill Hostel, Copeley Hill, Erdington
The building for the Copeley Hill Hostel, originally called Burlington House, was given to the City by Barrow Cadbury in 1934. In his letter making the donation, Barrow Cadbury said that the building ...
Councillor J.S. Nettlefold, J.P.
John Sutton Nettlefold became a key figure in the history of public housing in Birmingham, signalling the growing emergence of local government in the town planning process. Born in London, he later moved ...
Crescent Bicycles Catalogue, Arthur E. Sayer & Co., Sherlock Street, Birmingham
This catalogue shows that companies were actively marketing bicycles to women by 1900. Inside we find the 'Crescent No 3' Ladies Safety model, which has 'saddle and handle positions arranged to allow ...