A Handsworth Milkseller in trouble
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Gazette 21st May 1883.
The article refers to a Mr Henry.E. Leckington, a milk seller of Terrace Road ,Handsworth, being summoned for selling milk below the standard ...
Christian Kunzle plaque
Blue plaque for Christian Kunzle in Birmingham. This plaque is on the site of Kunzle's shop which stood where the Abbey National Building Society is in Five Ways Shopping Centre. Kunzle is fondly remembered ...
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases.
A wartime poster issued by the Ministry of Health and the Central Council for Health Education.
The poster was designed to encourage people not to spread diseases so not to damage the war effort.
Handsworth and the Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald",19th June 1897.
This cutting refers to the muzzling order introduced by Staffordshire County Council the previous year, following an outbreak of rabies. ...
Ministry of Health Poster - Coughs And Sneezes...
This poster was put up in surgeries and hospitals across the Birmingham area. The slogan achieved fame and immortality when it featured in "The Blood Donor" an episode of Hancock's Half Hour starring ...
Putrid Rabbits for Sale
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald", 2nd January 1897.
This cutting details the case brought against 2 shopkeepers on the Soho Road for selling skinned rabbits that where unfit for human ...
The Danger of Tinned meats.
A newspaper cutting from the Birmingham Mail August 3rd 1893.This is a report following the inquest into the death of of a young girl who died as a result of eating rabbit from a damaged tin. The tinned ...
The Muzzling Order
A newspaper cutting from the "Handsworth Herald" 16th May 1896.
A short article which criticises the Handsworth Police for the over zealous way they enforced the muzzling order that had been introduced ...