Lok Mela Festival
Urdu Times Stall, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Mehndi hand painting, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Funfair, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Funfair at the festival, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
West Midlands Police, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lola Young
Lola Young, Professor of Cultural Studies, Middlesex University; Project Director, National Museum and Archives of Black History and Culture: "My first job was with The Gas Board! But that was because ...
Longmeadow Crescent Children's Home, Shard End
Longmeadow Crescent was a purpose-built children's home designed as a ‘family group home’ on the newly-built Shard End Estate.
The home was part of a programme of new children’s homes, each built on ...
Lordswood Residential Nursery, Lordswood Road, Harborne / Red House, Droitwich
Lordswood Residential Nursery was the first of Birmingham’s residential nurseries, opening formally on 24th February 1928. The nursery accommodated 30 children aged 0 to 3 but was, at times, over capacity. ...
Ludford Road Children's Home, Bartley Green
Ludford Road was a purpose-built children's home with 8 beds which opened in 1963. It was designed to be a family group home on the newly built Bartley Green Estate.
The home was part of a programme ...
Maggie Waters, Welsh milk maid by Sir Benjamin Stone
Mahmood Hashmi
MAHMOOD HASHMI - Critic, essayist, author, editor, playwright and educationalist
Entry submitted by Pervaiz Khan
Mahmood Hashmi is a long established name in Urdu literature with a wide range ...
Man and children in attic flat, Liverpool 8 by Nick Hedges
This photograph shows a father and his three children in their one room attic flat. Liverpool 8 was one of the worst slums in the UK and many people were forced to live in squalid rooms in multi-let properties. ...
Manningford Road Children's Home, Druids Heath
The children’s home on Manningford Road opened in 1967 or early 1968.
It was a new-build in close proximity to another children’s home, built at the same time, on Bicknell Croft.
The home was part ...
Margery Fry
In 1904, Margery Fry became the warden of the women’s residence at the University of Birmingham. After war-time relief work, she became an influential penal reformer and advocate for higher education. ...
Marston Green Cottage Homes, Coleshill Road
Towards the end of the 19th Century, it was decided that keeping children in the workhouse with adults was no longer desirable. To this end, the Board of Guardians in Birmingham decided to build cottage ...
Martineau House, Towyn, North Wales
This house in North Wales was bought by the Education Committee in 1935 using a bequest from Councillor Clara Martineau.
Councillor Martineau, alongside other duties, sat on the Cottage Homes and Residential ...
Mary Cottrell
Mary Cottrell was the first female Labour councillor for Birmingham Corporation and was a leading figure of co-operative women’s guilds, both with TASCoS and regionally. She also became the first woman ...
Matron Lloyd
This photograph shows Matron Lloyd in her office at the Southern General military hospital, Edgbaston; she became famous as Birmingham's "Lady of the Lamp"; as well receiving several honours for her work ...