Allenscroft Road Working Boys' Home, Kings Heath
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, many new children's homes were opened in Birmingham and several of these were intended to be homes for working children.
Some of these were purpose built – like Allenscroft ...
Bicknell Croft Children's Home, Kings Heath
There are several parallels between this home and another children's home which was built on Reynoldstown Road. The two homes are very similar in structure, at least outwardly. Both were built in 1967 ...
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 ...
Kings Heath Children's Home
In February 1960, because of a need for more accommodation for children in care, the Children’s Committee took over two former homes for district nurses, one of which was this one in Kings Heath (the ...
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 ...
Plan of Uffculme Open-Air School
Uffculme Open-Air School opened in 1911 in the grounds of the Uffculme estate, between Moseley and Kings Heath. The land was provided by Barrow and Geraldine Cadbury, whose son Paul had benefitted from ...
Political Demonstrations in the Parks
During the 1920s and 1930s, the Parks Committee minutes contain detailed information about the type of organisations applying to use Birmingham’s parks for meetings and demonstrations. The issue of whether ...
Shelfield Road Children's Home, Kings Heath
This children's home was built as a 'family group home' or ‘scattered home’ on the Brandwood Park Estate in 1951.
It was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on Birmingham's newly ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 18), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1952 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
Sunderton Road Children's Home (no. 196), Brandwood End
This opened as a purpose-built home for eight children in 1953 on the newly-built Woodthorpe Farm Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on newly developing housing ...
The Chamberlain Family at Highbury
This photograph is from an album compiled by Mary Endicott Chamberlain, third wife of Joseph Chamberlain. The album contains a number of photographs of the grounds at Highbury Hall, and includes several ...
'The Taming of the Shrew' at Cannon Hill Park
This photograph shows a matinee performance at the arena at Cannon Hill Park. Plays had first been performed in the parks as part of the wartime entertainments organised as part of the Brighter Birmingham ...
Tunnel Lane, Kings Heath
This children's home on Tunnel Lane was built as a 'family group home' or ‘scattered home’ on the Brandwood Park Estate in 1951.
It was part of a programme of new children’s homes in Birmingham, each ...