Lakshmi Puja
Lakshmi Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 October 2000.
Lakshmi Puja
Lakshmi Puja, during the Hindu festival of Diwali, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 26 October 2000.
Laurence Cadbury
Laurence Cadbury was the eldest son of Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury, George Cadbury’s second wife. At the outbreak of World War One, aged twenty-five, he volunteered as a member of the Friends Ambulance Unit ...
Lawrence Levy in 'Edgbastonia'
The suburban magazine Edgbastonia regularly profiled figures of local importance, such as Lawrence Levy, a prominent member of the Jewish comunity, who had been a pioneering teacher, Olympic weightlifter ...
Leon Salberg and The Alexandra
Image:Harry Levine Jewish Community Press Book Cuttings
1937-38.
The Alexandra Theatre remains a well known and popular theatre in Birmingham. Yet not many people are aware that one of its most important ...
Lessons on the Koran
Lessons on the Koran, Wolverhampton Mosque. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Lessons on the Koran
Lessons on the Koran, Wolverhampton Mosque. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Letter from Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre to the Bishop of Birmingham
The Birmingham Women’s Welfare Centre was opened in 1927 to offer family planning advice and information to married women, with the aim of improving the health of mothers and children, and making married ...
Letter from Laurence Cadbury to his parents, 26 May 1916
Conscription was implemented in March 1916 as part of the Military Service Act of 1916. Prior to the Act, the British War effort was serviced by the Regular and Territorial Armies that was manned through ...
Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
Interviewed when Bishop of Stepney: "I think the greatest mistake people make... is to have a half-hearted attitude. An African proverb is: 'We are people through other people: I am because I belong to ...
Mothers Day Service
Mothers Day Service, New Testament Church of God, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Muslim Supplementary Schools
This photograph by Nick Hedges which was exhibited in 1976 depicts a scene from a Koran lesson at an Islamic supplementary school in Wolverhampton.
The education of children was, and continues to ...
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
This is my grandfather's funeral. He is in the middle of the picture.
This picture is of him being sat upright before his burial.
On the left of the picture is my father, and third from right is ...
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
I have lived all my life in Handsworth and my family came to this country in 1963.
At that time we lived together in the houses with Afro Caribbean people. I lived with mixed families up until 1974. ...
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 ...