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"My Journey to and Life in Britain"

MY JOURNEY TO AND LIFE IN BRITAIN My name is Sarwan Singh. I came to this country in 1960. I have lived all my life in Handsworth and worked in Birmingham. I am a member and office bearer of Indian ...

‘Jamaicans Seeking Work in Britain’

Submitted by Birmingham Stories. The 22nd of June, 1948, was a deeply important date in British history. This date marked the docking of the Empire Windrush, in Tilbury, Essex. The landing of the Windrush ...

Ahmed's Journey

"My name is Ahmed Mirreh. I was born in Khamis Mashed in Saudi Arabia. I stayed there for 6 years. In 1989 civil war was in Somalia. My parents emigrated to Holland. There was at that moment no other ...

Banner Theatre, Play Advertisements

Image: Fragment of brown paper with hand drawn logo for Banner Theatre. This exhibition represents a spectrum Banner Theatre's past productions, from Collier Laddie (1973)to 'Strangers in Paradise ...

Bearwood Holocaust Survivor

Image: Harry Levine Jewish Community Press Book Cuttings, 1939-42 no 519406. Why was it necessary to offer refuge and work to Jewish migrants in the 1930's? This newspaper article features the profoundly ...

Birmingham Council For Refugees

Image:Birmingham Hebrew Congregation Singers Hill Year Book; Annual Report, 31st Dec, 1942. Zoe Josephs has written that one of the first sanctuaries for refugees was a house on Duchess Road, Edgbaston, ...

David Cox - 'A Gypsy Encampment'

Artists have often sentimentalised gypsies, using them as local colour in idealised rural settings. Here, however, it appears that David Cox has sketched these people from life, and they are the main ...

Drawing of a Middlemore Girl

As an Edgbastonian, John Middlemore was proudly celebrated in the pages of the Edgbastonia magazine: ‘A benevolent Edgbaston gentleman who has solved one of the difficult social problems of modern ...

Faces and Places: Horace Halliburton

Submitted by Birmingham Stories In 1949, the Birmingham Gazette ran a series of articles highlighting an episode of social unrest that took place in the Causeway Green hostel. The disturbances apparently ...

Finding Refuge

It has been estimated that Birmingham received approximately 700 Jewish refugees between 1933 and 1945.There are a number of different archive sources and historical accounts to help us get a better understanding ...

Indian Workers' Association GB [IMG]

Indian Workers’ Association GB (Birmingham Branch) MS 2141 IWA The IWA combined Marxist politics with a concern for the plight of Asians and other immigrants in Britain and had a close, if sometimes ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I have two elder sisters and a younger brother.I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles. My father was a retired military officer. ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I have two elder sisters and a younger brother. I am from a middle class family. I was living in an extended family in India with parents, grand parents and uncles. My father was a retired military ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

My Expectations of coming to Britain; My expectations were that I could find a job and earn some money, and come back to my country and live a better life. Farming in Punjab was just working hard and ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

This is a pitcure of my grandad, who is on the left, his brother, who is on the right...and in the middle is another family relative. My grandad was the head of the village. He was a farmer and a ...

Pat's Journey to Birmingham

Pat's Parents and Great Grandparents worked for an English Lord. The Lord moved to England- Pats father decided to stay with his grandparents in Ireland. His father was a red coat who worked with ...

Pat's Journey to Birmingham

Family and traditional Irish life:- Pat has 7 siblings- 5 boys and 2 girls all Limerick born. Pat's family had a happy, humble upbringing -lots of hand me down clothes- often went to school in ...

Pat's Journey to Birmingham

Pat left Ireland in 1961 and came to England as there was no work at home. Invited here by his school friend Tony, who’d been in Birmingham a year already. Pat had previously driven the donkey to the ...

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