Smethwick Collection

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Malting Floor
The Malting Floor at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. Barley grain lies a foot deep on the floor for ten days, being constantly turned

The Warley Water Tower, Smethwick, West Midlands, England. Now unused apart from serving as a mast for mobile phone transmitters. The Times Date: 1987

Lady Cynthia and Oswald Mosley, Smethwick, 1926
Photograph showing Lady Cynthia and Oswald Mosley campaigning in Smethwick, West Midlands, during elections in 1926. At that time Oswald Mosley was representing the Labour party. Date: 18/12/1926

High Street, Smethwick early 1900's

Smethwick High Street early 1900s

Smethwick Cape Hill early 1900s

Lady Cynthia Mosley (1898 1933), second daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston. In 1920 Lady Cynthia married Oswald Mosley, MP for Harrow at the time and later Smethwick

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery
The busy loading yard at the Mitchells and Butlers Date: circa 1900s

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery fire engine
The volunteer fire brigade based at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

For Wife and Kingdom by Ward Bailey. First produced at the Theatre Royal in Smethwick, on 8th March 1909 and moving to the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, on 29th March 1909

The Maltings, Cape Hill, Staffordshire
The Maltings, Cape Hill, Smethwick, near Birmingham, Staffordshire, England. Mitchells & Butlers Brewery Date: 1910s

Studio portrait, family of three with two dogs, photo by E Tranter, Cape Hill, Smethwick. Date: circa 1920s

Women candidates for parliament, 1919
Four female candidates for Parliament in the 1918 General Election, when women over the age of 30 were given the vote for the first time

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Mashing Room
A corner of the Mashing Room at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The malt is drawn from the store-bins by a wonderful system of Archimedian screws...thence to

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Bowling Green
The Bowling Green at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands. The site had a number of sporting and leisure facilities for the brewery workers

William Waters Butler, who in 1909 was Vice-Chairman of Mitchells and Butlers Brewery. His father, the co-founder of the business, had died in 1907

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery Kiln
A malt-drying kiln at the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Henry Mitchell (1837 - 1914)
Henry Mitchell, Chairman of the Brewers, Mitchells and Butlers, based at the Cape Hill Brewery, Smethwick, West Midlands Date: 1909

Mitchells and Butlers Brewery
A view of the Mitchells and Butlers Cape Hill Brewery, at Smethwick, West Midlands. The brewery closed in September 2002 Date: 1909

Election Campaign
Flora Drummond ( The General) & Phyllis Ayrton campaigning for Christabel Pankhurst in Smethwick. Christabel represented the Womens Party in 1918 & 1919

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