King's Norton Union Workhouse postcard

King's Norton Union Workhouse in Selly Oak, showing the entrance to the main accommodation block with its original decorative cupolas. Designed by the architect Edward Holmes, it was built in 1872 to replace the old King's Norton Parish Workhouse (Original postcard published by "Foster's Series", 17 Bennett's Hill, Birmingham. Images of this postcard have appeared in the following publications: Dowling, Geoff, et al., Selly Oak Past and Present: A Photographic Survey of a Birmingham Suburb (Department of Geography, University of Birmingham, 1987), p. 19; Butler, Joanne, et al., Selly Oak and Selly Park, Images of England Series (Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud, 2005), p. 88)