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 ...
Children eating breakfast, by Lisel Haas
The children sharing breakfast in this photograph are believed to be siblings although we do not know their names. Haas was born in Monchengladbach, Germany. She was a Jewish refugee who settled in Birmingham ...
Domestic Interior, by Reginald Edgecombe
The Edgecombe drawings demonstrate that urban planners in Birmingham were considering the internal layout as much as the external appearance of new houses. This sketch illustrates the creative processes ...
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 ...
'Going to bed', by Joscelyne Gaskin
Joscelyne Gaskin (1903-1993) was the daughter of the Birmingham artists and designers Arthur Joseph Gaskin and Georgie Evelyn Cave France. Her parents both worked in a variety of media, with Georgie initially ...
'Grace before Meat', by David Wilkie
Oil painting by David Wilkie (1785-1841).
‘Grace before Meat‘ shows three generations of a family saying a prayer before sharing a meal together. In paintings like this, Wilkie presented an intimate ...
Single Storey Dwellings for Aged People, by Manzoni
Watercolour artist impression by Sir Herbert Manzoni, City Engineer and Surveyor, depicting layout of the kind of elderly person's maisonette-type dwelling built on new housing estates.
The Sitting Room, by Myra Bunce
‘Mr. Bunce is an intense lover of art and artists […] notable examples of Wainwright, of his old friend Henshaw, of H. Moore, Langley, J. Collier, Aumonier, East, Donaldson, Thomas Baker, Wyllie, and ...