"Questions of Travel": The Lives of Benjamin Stone and Helen Caddick
All text by Dr Andy Green
“From the time I was a very young man, I have been a great traveller ” (Stone, ‘Mainly about People’, 1908).
On a wall of the Local Studies Department of Birmingham ...
"Stone Photographic Collection"
This exhibition features just a few samples from the extensive photographic collection of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).
The collection includes 22,000 mounted prints, 17,000 glass negatives, 600 ...
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.
A Government School in Wadi Halfa
This photograph shows advanced scholars and teachers at a Government School in Wadi Halfa.
Barbados
Originally captioned 'Descendants of Cromwell's Deported Irish', Barbados, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children on the Desert of Sahara.
Bedouin Children
This photograph shows Bedouin children from Algeria.
Birmingham Blue Coat School Boys
The Blue Coat School stood at the east end of St Philip’s churchyard. It was founded as a charity in 1723 to board and educate the children of the poor. Boys and girls were taught to read, write and do ...
Birmingham Blue Coat School Girls by Sir Benjamin Stone
The children were clothed in distinctive blue uniforms. The photographs are particularly important as the names of the children are included. These can be cross referenced with the other school records. ...
Blue Coat Charity School Apprenticeship Indenture
Mary Taylor would have entered the Blue Coat School when she was 7 years old. The entrance age was increased to 9 in 1819. The School later arranged for children to be apprenticed. Mary was apprenticed ...
Board School Boys
This photograph shows school boys from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.
Board School Girls
This photograph shows school girls from a Board School in Stratford on Avon.
Bridgetown
Photograph of the principal street in Bridgetown, Barbados, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
'Kandyan Chiefs with British Counsellor'. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
'Kandyan ladies (and Chiefs) '. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone
Ceylon
'Group of Kandyan High Priests of the Dalada Malegawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth of Buddha.' Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone
Ceylon
'Buddhist Priests and Altar', Ceylon [Sri Lanka], from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
Originally captioned 'Buddhist Priests. The robes worn are yellow'. Ceylon [Sri Lanka], from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.