Lok Mela Festival
Audience at the Radio XL Roadshow, Centenary Square, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Drummer during performance at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Photograph by Ghazala Saddique, October 2000.
Lok Mela Festival
Ali Haider at Symphony Hall, 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
Mah Jong, Birmingham
Photograph by Terry Lo.
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 ...
Mahmood Hashmi
Mahmood Hashmi is a long established name in Urdu literature with a wide range of publications.
He graduated from Punjab University and went on to gain an M.A and LL.B from the University of Aligarh ...
Malcolm in Marshall Street (1965)
[Submitted by Paul Quigley]
Malcolm X was known around the world as ‘the angriest Black man in America’ and an inspirational speaker on the injustices of America’s treatment of Black people. On a ...
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 ...
Map of Birmingham West Suburban Railway
Today's Cross City Line between Birmingham New Street Station and Kings Norton follows the former Birmingham West Suburban Railway.1 Opened in 1876, this key route has had a significant, yet varied, impact ...
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 ...