Description:This photograph was taken some time after Birmingham City Transport abandoned it’s ‘colour bar’ in 1954 (see <a href="http://www.search.suburbanbirmingham.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=1923">'Transport Workers in South-West Birmingham'</a>). Immigrants often chose to record their status and success and Ernest Dyche took numerous photographs which would be sent home by his sitters.<sup><small>1</small></sup> As migrants became established in Birmingham, Dyche recorded weddings, other landmark occasions and social gatherings.<sup><small>2</small></sup>
<font color="#666633"><small><sup>1</sup> The Ernest Dyche Studio was active between c.1905 and 1990, initially at 32 Coventry Rd, Bordesley and from 1913 at 354 Moseley Rd, Balsall Heath.
<sup>2</sup> Many social photographs were taken under the banner of ‘Theatrical, Clubland and Home Photographers’.