Birmingham Archives & Collections

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Preserving & sharing 800 years of Birmingham's history @libraryofbham. Follow our blog theironroom.wordpress.com Enquiries: archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk

Birmingham, UK birmingham.gov.uk/archives Joined June 2012

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Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom 11h

#SundayShowcase today is This Way Up - When Maps Go Wrong by The Map Men who have selected what they believe to be some of the best wrong maps. Some centuries old and others very recent. Intrigued? I knew you would be. Ref: 912 Map Area @LibraryofBham @markcooperjones @jayforeman

Two copies of a book on a box - front covers facing on. Title of the book is This Way Up. Illustrations of two globes facing each other on the front cover. Large arrow pointing at a land mass at the top of the globes. An office space behind the books, consisting of desks and two doors leading to other rooms.

Birmingham Archives & Collections @TheIronRoom 18h

To commemorate Remembrance Sunday, here’s the front page of the Birmingham Book of Remembrance, 1914 – 1918. Ref - L 75.9. The original is held at Birmingham Hall Of Memory @LibraryofBham @Britwarmemorial

Laurel garland with the handle and tip of a sword running through it. Legend below the garland reads - For King & Country. Text in the centre of the garland reads - The Roll of Honour of Birmingham Men Who Gave Their Lives in The Great War. On one side of this text is date 1914 and directly opposite 1918. Lettering and decoration in gold.

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#CityOf1000Trades is Stanley Croft Ltd whose Head Office was at the corner of 48/49 Lancaster St and Cornwall Street. Makers of amongst many things - machine tools, lathes and drilling machines. Ref – Bham Trade Catalogue Collection @LibraryofBham

A page from a book. A photograph of a factory in the centre of the page on a street corner. Facia at the top of the building reads – S Croft City Machinery Stores. Cars and pedestrians outside of the factory. Text in the border around the page identifying the Stanley Croft Transmission Line and the premises being their main distribution store.

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#PhotoFriday is Dogpool Lane, Stirchley photographed on 19 May 1934. Debate around how the lane acquired its name – from reference to a neighbouring pool to Dogge Lane, a Tudor trackway. Ref – WK/S4/189 @LibraryofBham @Brumpic

A street scene - a car in the bottom left of the picture in front of properties – one of which is the Liverpool Victoria Assurance office. A telephone box further down the street past the buildings. Hording on the opposite side of the road. People in the mid background either walking or on bicycles. Rows of housing in the far background of the photograph.

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#BhamWomen today is Marjorie Brown - Birmingham’s first lady mayor in 1974. Marjorie was a Labour councillor for Small Heath ward from 1954. Ref - Birmingham Portraits Collection @LibraryofBham

A female figure sat in a chair in full mayoral regalia - gown, chain of office and hat. She is looking directly at the camera. She is sat in an office with a wooden desk to the left with two plant pots nearby. A framed photograph of the Duke of Edinburgh behind her. Flock wallpaper on the wall and plush carpeting.