Street art
This spray painting was on the hoardings next to the Attwood Green Community Centre. The painting was commisioned for an Open Day at the Centre by manager James Hobbs. Behind the hoardings the land was ...
Suhana
The Suhana group on the release of their first record.One of the very first to be made in this country by a Punjabi-speaking (singing!) band
Summer School at Methodist Church on Coventry Road
Summer Schools were quite popular in the 1970's and 1980's as a means of supplementing the education of Black youngsters. At these schools emphasis was placed on history and culture and the three "r"'s....
Supplementary School, Handsworth
In the 1970's supplementary schools were set up. They took place on Saturday mornings with the aim of giving black children support with their lessons for example english and maths. They also educated ...
Sydney by Joseph Lycett
Joseph Lycett painted the Australian colony after he was transported there for forgery. Lycett eventually returned to England settling in Birmingham at Bath Row. He was again arrested for forging bank ...
'Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: ‘Shropshire Photographic Society. Selected for Display at the 1953 Shropshire Salon of Pictorial Photography’ & 'Sutton Coldfield ...
Tariq Choudry and Pervaiz Khan
"Art Activists, WMEMAS Office, Holyhead School. Tariq Choudry went on to have a successful career in Birmingham City Council. Pervaiz Khan is a theatre director, multimedia artist and film maker and has ...
'Tell Me Mirror'
Photograph by Ruth Handley. Process: bromesko.
Labels on reverse: 'Midland Salon of Photography, Accepted and Hung [at] Royal Leamington Spa. 1948' & 'Sutton Coldfield Photographic Society. Accepted ...
The Art of J.B. Higginbotham
An exploration of the art of James Bungo Higginbotham (the pen name used by Harry Bernard Wallis). The volume includes a handwritten introduction by Wallis and then descriptions of each of the plates. ...
The artist David Bomberg
David Bomberg (December 5, 1890 – August 19, 1957) was a painter, born in Sutton Street off Holloway Head. His family moved to London though when he was still an infant.
Bomberg returned to Birmingham ...
The Austins and elsewhere by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck
Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at The Austins. Elizabeth presented a bound volume of 28 of her watercolours to her son Ernest for Christmas in 1885. This gallery contains ...
The Austins Watercolour album
The inscription by Elizabeth Jane Hasluck in the album of watercolours she gave to her son Ernest on December 25th 1885. Elizabeth was the wife of Daniel Sidney Hasluck and they lived at the Austins. ...
The Billiard Hall on Soho Road
The Birmingham Carnival 2003
Dancers following float in the Birmingham Carnival procession, as it passes through Wellington Road, Handsworth, on Sunday 3rd August 2003. The carnival began in 1984 as the Handsworth Carnival and this ...
The Birmingham Carnival 2003
Dancers in troupe getting down to the music in the Birmingham Carnival, on Church Lane, Handsworth.
The Cave Arts Centre
After the Imperial cinema closed it re-opened as "The Cave Arts Centre" in 1985. It was funded by the Arts Council and run by the Probation Service.
The Consuls Will
The front cover of the script for the play The Consuls WIll, written and illustrated by Arthur Frederick Wallis writing under the name of P. Bentley.
[MS 2628/5/5/6/1]
The Dumptian Chronicles
The Dumptian Chronicles are a set of illustrations based on Humpty Dumpty. Produced once a week by Arthur F. Wallis, 22 chronicles were made, along with a small index to accompany them.
[MS 2628/5/5/2]...