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‘Birmingham Wheels’, Bordesley

‘Gang Magasine’, Bumper Christmas Number

The ‘magasine’ contains jokes, competition pages, verses, puzzles and games, stories and gang notices. The members of the gang were Alan Thompson (captain and editor of the ‘secret club’ magazine), Graham ...

‘In the Happy Days of Our Childhood’ by Maria Cadbury

In the late 18th and 19th centuries seaside holidays became popular with those families who could afford them. With improved transport links, this popularity gradually spread to the working classes who ...

‘Wounded Soldiers at a Concert', Southern Hospital

This postcard shows a montage of scenes of wounded soldiers attending outdoor music entertainments at the Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston, including an inset of a boy dressed in a soldier's ...

A Boy and a Catch of Fish

This photograph shows a boy and a catch of fish, with the fishing rod and basket beside a tree.

Adventure Playgrounds

Danish landscape architects and town planners became interested in the concept of adventure playgrounds, also known as 'junk playgrounds', in the 1930s, after observing children using building sites and ...

African Barkcloth Beater

This barkcloth beater, made from wood and horn, was collected in Africa by the traveller and diarist Helen Caddick, who lived in York Road, Edgbaston.

Bandstand at Calthorpe Park

This photograph shows crowds of people listening to a music performance in the park.

Billiards at Highbury Hospital

This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers enjoying a game of billiards during a recreation break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence ...

Birmingham and Moseley Society Journal

In contrast to the general movement to open up green spaces in the city to provide parks for Birmingham’s urban and suburban population during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Moseley Park ...

Birmingham Pageant

In 1938 Birmingham celebrated the 100th anniversary of the city’s Borough Charter. A pageant was the main feature of the celebrations, held at Aston Park from July 11th to the 16th (because of its success, ...

Bournville Family, by Bill Brandt

Black and white photographic print by Bill Brandt depicting family sat in garden of a house on the Weoley Castle Estate.

Boy and toy horse

Photograph by Lisel Haas entitled 'Das Neue Pferd' (the new horse).

Boy with Flag by Vanley Burke

Vanley Burke’s photographs are noted for making visible in a sensitive way black daily life in Britain. Looking straight at the camera the boy presents the viewer with a strong sense of his own identity. ...

Boy with hoop at Calthorpe Park

In the 19th century public parks were introduced to provide the poor and working classes with healthier ways to spend their leisure hours. The land was often given by social reformers – Lord Calthorpe ...

Boys in Calthorpe Park

This photograph shows a group of boys in Calthorpe Park. Their clothing suggests that they are from working-class or lower middle-class backgrounds. It is easy to imagine that they might have found themselves ...

Boys of Gower Street School, Ladywood, with blacked-up faces

Like the maypole, the boys’ blackened faces were a part of May Day traditions. The day was historically associated with chimney sweeps. They would march in a procession led by ‘Jack-in-the-Green’, a garlanded ...

Brighter Birmingham Programmes

In common with other cities and towns in Britain and as promoted by the government, Birmingham City Council organised a variety of events during the Second World War to provide entertainments for war ...