Navratri
Priest Chandrakant Bhatt (Tyseley) and the Sahana Dance Troupe (visiting from India), during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta ...
Neneh Cherry
Neneh Cherry, photographed at Island Records 25th Anniversary, Pinewood Studios, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
New Testament Church of God Choir
Choir, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
News Article on a 'Garden for the Blind'
This article documents the initial reactions of some of the first users of a garden for blind and visually impaired people that opened at Queen’s Park, Harborne on 31 July 1953.1 The Parks Committee minutes ...
News article, 'It's live and let live in Britain's Harlem'
Balsall Heath, a Home for Immigrants1
The Daily Herald’s article ‘It’s live and let live in Britain’s Harlem’ is included in a volume about ‘ethnic communities’ which was assembled by Birmingham Central ...
Oscar Deutsch and The Odeon Cinema
In the twentieth century, Jews prided themselves on being both 'Jewish' and 'English'. Leaders of the Hebrew Congregation of Birmingham such as Oscar Deutsch also saw the importance of balancing responsibility ...
Panjabi Dawn
Poster for an exhibition of photographs by Nirmal Singh Dhesy, Larrie Paul Tiernan and Herbie Lawes, held at the Triangle gallery cafeteria 1 July-2 August 1985. The exhibition was organised by the Sikh ...
Patrick Berry
Patrick Berry, Group Managing Director, Choice FM Radio: "Education is like weight training: if you want your body to be a certain shape, you lift weights and you become strong. Education does this for ...
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 ...
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 same time as Pat. She worked in a typing pool for the Automobile ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
First career in Birmingham was as a Trainee Bus Conductor in Harborne. His friend was working as one and got him a job at a depot.
Pat found it very difficult to understand people in the city- he just ...
Paul Robeson
In 1949 Birmingham was host to two performances by American actor, singer and activist, Paul Robeson. Both concerts took place at Birmingham Town Hall and one was organised in conjunction with the Birmingham ...
Peter Stanford, 'From Bondage To Liberty' [1]
Photograph of a class from Nelson Street School
The photograph comes from an album to commemorate the laying of the foundation stone of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and contains photographs of individual children and school groups who contributed ...
Photograph of Dr Mary Sturge
This photograph accompanied a feature on Mary Sturge in Edgbastonia magazine. Mary Sturge was a pioneer of medical training for women, and also campaigned for women's suffrage. She was among the first ...
Photograph of Helen Caddick
Helen Caddick, the traveller and diarist, was featured in Edgbastonia magazine in March 1900. This photograph illustrated that article.