"Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade"

Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor. The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is ...

Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March

Boys Brigade on Whit Sunday March, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.

BSA Ladies' Bicycle

Tight controls on cycling were imposed by Birmingham’s Parks Committee from the earliest days of the activity. In the 1870s, before the invention o...

Ceylon

Originally captioned "The "Perahera" an annual Buddhist Festival, Ceylon." From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.

Children on a Birmingham Co-operative Society float at the May Day parade

Horses in the Fire Brigade

Unlike other departments, the Watch Committee also recorded the stock value of their horses when purchased. It would appear that committee official...

Pat's Journey to Birmingham

Pat met his wife Bridget when they got talking on the bus as she was going to mass. She had come to England from Galway, Ireland around the sam...

Perambulation of Boundaries of Edgbaston Parish

In October 1872, a group of seventeen men met at the Edgbaston Vestry Hall, and proceeded to Gooch Street to begin a ‘perambulation’ of the boundar...

Pride

Image from Birmingham Pride. Extract from oral history interview: “The outlets for women were… they weren’t there...the lifestyle was very cl...

Pride

Issue of 'The Outpost'marking the first Birmingham Pride in 1997. The Birmingham Pride Festival is the largest free gay and lesbian event in th...

St Patrick's Day Parade

Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.

St Patrick's Day Parade

Before the start of the parade. Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.