Suffragettes released from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suffragettes Released from Winson Green Prison
After smashing windows at the Grand Hotel in Birmingham, where Prime Minister Asquith was speaking, eight suffragettes were imprisoned in Winson Green Prison. They went on hunger strike and were released ...
Suicide Of A Socialist by Chris Upton
From a distance it might have looked like a typical funeral. A small group of mourners were gathered around a freshly dug grave at Key Hill cemetery, shortly after Christmas in 1894. Drawing closer, however, ...
Suicide through love at Perry
This newscutting from the G.H Osborne collection tells of the suicide of 18 year old Marion Lilly Whatton a machinist from Clifton Road, Aston.
She had seen her sweetheart, Charles Turner of Guildford ...
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 Education for Vietnamese Children
The children at Birmingham Vietnamese Community supplementary classes. The children have classes in subjects like English and Mathematics, and also are taught Vietnamese language and culture.
Supplementary Education for Vietnamese Children
Supplementary school for Vietnamese children gives support in subjects like English and Mathematics, and also teaches Vietnamese language and culture.
Supplementary Education for Vietnamese Children
MVCA organises supplementary education classes at the weekend and after school for Vietnamese children. Classes are held in subjects like English and Mathematics, and also on Vietnamese language and ...
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 ...
Support for Henry Odell in the 1918 General Election
This poster was dispalyed around Handsworth to encourage votes for local man Henry Odell. Odell was the Labour candidate and here he lists the unions and societies who pledged to support him. Odell viewed ...
Sycamore Road in the Snow
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 ...
Taking a break
Workmen taking a break from preparing Haddon Tower on Bristol Street for demolition. They are removing fixtures and fittings; their progress down the tower was easy to spot by seeing if a floor had still ...
Taxing Times for Gladstone by Chris Upton
Mr Joseph Lloyd Phelps of Lee Crescent was idly looking through his morning post : bills from the coal merchant and grocer, note from his brother in law, subscription request from the local improvement ...
Tenant's Deposit- Wynn Street
Receipt for the deposit paid by Dorothy Blackford and her husband for their flat on Wynn Street. The Blackford family were paid a visit by the Queen Mother as part of her visit to the area. The Queen ...
Terms for Footmen, Soho House
This memorandum sets out the wages and liveries for Footmen at Soho House. Soho House the former home of industrialist and entrepreneur Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) was by this date the home of his widowed ...
Terms of agreement for Edward Vale, Coachman
This memorandum sets out the terms of agreement for Edward Vale the Coachman at Soho House. By this date Soho House was the home of Matthew Robinson Boulton and his young family.
Vale came to Soho ...
The Bates Murder
Newsagent Thomas Bates was murdered in the course of a robbery at his premises on Lee Bank Road on June 2nd 1962. This photograph shows Chief Inspector Baumber talking to the deceased's brother inside ...