WEA Development Education Project - Bethsaida Brown
My name is Bethsaida Brown and I was born in the Parish of St Catherine in Jamaica. I am the third of seven children and can remember that I was very sad at leaving my mother for the first time when ...
WEA Development Education Project - Eunice Campbell
My name is Eunice Campbell and I am 72 years old. I was born in Jamaica in the Parish of St Andrews in the district of Rockhall. I am of Caribbean origin and came to England in 1960, I even remember ...
WEA Education Development Project - Lurline Milligan
My name is Lurline Milligan and I was born in the parish of St Thomas, Jamaica. I come from a family of seven. I am 83 years old and am thankful for a blessed life. I came to England in 1955 and lived ...
WEA Development Education Project - Mavis Alexander
My name is Mavis Alexander and I come from Jamaica, from a district called Watt Town in the Parish of St. Ann. I came to England in 1961. I remember leaving Jamaica and boarding a British Airways plane ...
WEA Development Education Project - William Wilberforce Brown
This photo shows me giving a service at Brookfield New Testament Church of God in 1998. I was known as Bishop William W Brown at that time. I enjoyed my work and thanked God for blessing my life.
My ...
WEA Development Education Project -Shirley Hylton
My name is Shirley Hylton and I was born in the Parish of Hanover in Jamaica. I received my education up to Elementary in secondary school. After leaving school I went to learn sewing, but I did not ...
WEA Development Education Project - Lydia Shirley
My name is Lydia Shirley and I am a Jamaican born in the Parish of St Thomas. I had a strong desire from a young age to go and live in England. My opportunity came when the British Government invited ...
WEA Development Education Project - Kathleen Thomas
This is a photograph of my visit to Jamaica. I am with my sister and friends from Annie Wood. I really did enjoy my visit and the weather was always sunny and hot.
I used a computer for internet ...
WEA Development Education Project - Kathleen Thomas
My name is Kathleen Thomas and I am 76 years old. I was born in Jamaica in the parish of St Ann, in the district of Watt Town. I came to England in 1960 to join my husband. I really missed my own family ...
WEA Development Education Project - Headley Taylor
This was taken in my mother’s house in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1996. My son and I went on a holiday together and this was his first visit to see his grandparents. The view through the railings is of my ...
WEA Development Education Project - Headley Taylor
My name is Headley Taylor and I was born in Jamaica, in the Parish of Clarendon. My first job was learning carpentry. After my father died I got a job in the sugar factory where he used to work at Mony ...
WEA Globilisation Project - Shirley Hylton
I have been on this wonderful project where I have been learning all about what is going on in the world. I was looking at the kind of troubles that countries like South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania ...
WEA Development Education Project - Gloria Taylor
My name is Gloria Taylor and I was born in Jamaica, in the Parish of Manchester.
I am the youngest of 5 children and I have 2 older brothers and 2 older sisters. I remember feeling very sad when I first ...
"William Joseph McCardie": Birmingham's Pioneering Anaesthetist
The following text is taken from a Birmingham Stories oral history interview with Harry McCardie, who grew up in a family home in Birmingham, Edgbaston. Harry is now aged 94 years old and is living in ...
"I'm A Believer: Faith In The West Midlands"
As part of the 'Birmingham Stories' project, a volunteer has been working with some of the archive materials on faith and identity.
Her exhibition focuses on a photographic archive collection called, ...
Personal profile - Esmena Patricks
This photograph was taken at 19, Soho Road, Photographers. I went shopping for the day and afterwards went into the photographers and had this photo taken. If you look closely, you will notice that ...
Personal profile - Esmena Patricks
This photograph was taken at my cousins wedding, at Botanical Gardens, Edgbaston, Birmingham in 1998. I remembered that it rained on the day however we all still enjoyed the day. I was accompanied by ...
Personal profile - Esmena Patricks
I worked at Lucas for 20 years. I worked as a kitchen assistant. I finished work in December 1989. This is a photograph of me on the day that I finished work.
Photograph courtesy of Esmena Patricks
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