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Ahmed's Journey

"My name is Ahmed Mirreh. I was born in Khamis Mashed in Saudi Arabia. I stayed there for 6 years. In 1989 civil war was in Somalia. My parents emigrated to Holland. There was at that moment no other ...

Caravans in Upper Ryland Road

Birmingham’s history is very much a history of migration. Workers from across the region and beyond flocked here to find work in a booming industrial sector during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...

Early Jewish Presence In Birmingham

‘A House Inhabited by Jews’ (1750). In one Birmingham’s early ‘levy books’, a number of Jews can be seen living together as early as 1750. This is an important piece of evidence. It proves that ...

Faces and Places: Sarwan Singh and the Indian Workers Association

[Submitted by Sarwan Singh] On the 3rd of October 2008 Birmingham Stories held an event entitled 'Race and Racism' in Birmingham Central Library. At this session, Dr Kevin Searle introduced the new ...

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 ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I got married in 1957. My parents arranged my marriage and that was the tradition of those days. Bride and bridegroom had no say in the choice of their partners. Those marriages lasted for a long time, ...

My journey to and Life in Britain

I joined Indian Workers Association in late sixties and was a trade union shop steward. I am very proud of the Indian Workers Association because of the help and advice that I received from the comrades. ...

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. ...

School photo c.1993

"This is a school photograph. I remember starting at my local school in Ersel..." "My first memory is being the first black person in the classroom, and everybody's looking at you. I was nervous actually..." "The ...

The Moor Pool News

Cover of the Moor Pool Estate magazine, designed to publicise leisure and social activities, advertise local shops and businesses and provide other news for residents of the Moor Pool Estate.

The Moor Pool News

The Moor Pool News was a newsletter printed for residents of the Moor Pool Estate, and appears to have only run for four years between 1910 and 1914. Like similar publications by the Bournville Village ...

'What I think of the Estate' by a resident, Weoley Castle

Anonymous letter illustrating the views of a tenant printed in the Weoley Castle Review on the estate and its facilities.

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