Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt
This photograph was taken by a London-based photographer called Bill Brandt, forming part of an album in the Bournville Village Trust archive that remained unknown to the photographic world until the ...
Boy with sibling, London, by Nick Hedges
Hedges tried to capture the human face of homelessness. This photograph shows that positive family relationships existed despite the difficult conditions. The boy and his sibling are shown under the watchful ...
Floor tiles from 'Longworth', Edgbaston
These floor tiles, from 24 Priory Road, were rescued from the home of John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post from 1862 to 1898. His daughters Kate and Myra were students at the Birmingham ...
Gas Wash Boiler
Example of the type of modern labour-saving household applicance often found in new municipal homes during the 1930s.
'The Baby-House', by Millais
Etching by John Everett Millais (1829-1896).
The Victorian nursery, with its dolls and dolls' houses, provided an early training in motherhood. Millais, perhaps not insignificantly, entitled his etching ...
'Workwell' Kitchen Range
Triplex 'Workwell' coal fired kitchen range, bearing the registration number '708307', with small fire place next to oven door with a range above. The two levers provide heat to the bottom and top sections ...