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Advertisement placed by Cadbury in The Nursery World advising parents on how to prevent children suffering from war worries

Cadbury advertised their Bourn-vita drink as a nutritious product that would help children sleep and avoid war worries. Child psychologists and the general public were very concerned about the effects ...

Belgian refugees at Moor Green House, Moseley

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 Daily Post Article

This report discusses an incident in Cannon Hill Park, in which Charles Cartwright's carriage was pelted with snowballs as he drove through the park on the morning of Sunday 10 January. The article expresses ...

Boer War Memorial, Cannon Hill Park

This postcard shows the unveiling of the memorial to servicemen from Birmingham killed in the Boer War conflicts in South Africa around the beginning of the twentieth century. The memorial was sculpted ...

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 ...

Cannon Hill Park Open-Air Swimming Pool

There were open-air swimming pools at Cannon Hill Park, and at Victoria Park, Small Heath. The pool at Cannon Hill Park was opened at the same time as the park, in September 1873, while the pool at Victoria ...

Cannon Hill Park postcard

This scene shows people of all ages enjoying the green space that Cannon Hill Park provided. The boy in the postcard has his bicycle propped against the tree, hinting at the restrictions on cycling in ...

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 ...

Deed of Gift for Cannon Hill Park

This plan shows the land given by Louisa Ann Ryland to Birmingham Corporation to form Cannon Hill Park, which was opened in September 1873.

'Electric Treatment' in the Dining Room Ward at Highbury Hospital

In this photograph wounded soldiers are undergoing ‘electric treatment’ in the Auxiliary Hospital at Highbury, which specialised in orthopaedics as did Birmingham No.2 War Hospital at Hollymoor. Rubery ...

Greenhouse Corridor at Highbury Hospital

This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers relaxing during a break in the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence of Joseph Chamberlain) in the Mosley ...

Gymnasium at Highbury Hospital

This photograph shows WW1 wounded soldiers on the pioneering orthopaedic rehabilitation programme at Highbury Hospital (previously the residence of Joseph Chamberlain) in the Mosley suburb of Birmingham. ...

Highbury Park Sketch Plan

This sketch plan of the grounds and gardens of Highbury Hall was drawn by Hilda Chamberlain in 1894. It accompanied a letter written to her brother, Neville, who was managing the short-lived and ultimately ...

Highbury Voluntary Aid Detachments Hospital

This photograph shows an outdoor ward at Highbury Hospital in the Birmingham suburb of Moseley staffed by Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) nurses. Nationally, over 3,000 Auxiliary hospitals attached to ...

Letter from Hilda Chamberlain to Neville Chamberlain

This letter was written by Hilda Chamberlain to her brother, Neville, while he was living on Andros, in the Bahamas, managing the family's sisal plantation. It describes the proposed layout of newly acquired ...

Letter from Mary Endicott Chamberlain to her Mother

In this letter Mary Endicott Chamberlain describes her attendance at the opening of Moseley Park and Pool.

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