Barbados
Originally captioned 'Descendants of Cromwell's Deported Irish', Barbados, from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Birmingham City Transport Report
Recruitment in Eire 1951
This report reflects a major aspect of Birmingham’s dependence on immigrant labour in the 1950s and beyond.1 Key sectors became associated with the Irish workforce, including ...
Brigitte Winsor: Photographs of the St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographs of the procession through Digbeth, Birmingham, by Brigitte Winsor.
The St Patrick's Day Parade in Birmingham started in 1952 and is now the World's largest after New York and Dublin.
On ...
Highlighting Housing Need
The Sparkbrook newsletter became an important space for local residents to express their thoughts about living in Sparkbrook. This edition from 1965 includes an article by a 'Sparkbrook Resident' which ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat's Parents and Great Grandparents worked for an English Lord.
The Lord moved to England- Pats father decided to stay with his grandparents in Ireland.
His father was a red coat who worked with ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Family and traditional Irish life:-
Pat has 7 siblings- 5 boys and 2 girls
all Limerick born.
Pat's family had a happy, humble upbringing -lots of hand me down clothes- often went to school in ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat left Ireland in 1961 and came to England as there was no work at home. Invited here by his school friend Tony, who’d been in Birmingham a year already. Pat had previously driven the donkey to the ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
Pat met his wife Bridget when they got talking on the bus as she was going to mass.
She had come to England from Galway, Ireland around the same time as Pat. She worked in a typing pool for the Automobile ...
Pat's Journey to Birmingham
First career in Birmingham was as a Trainee Bus Conductor in Harborne. His friend was working as one and got him a job at a depot.
Pat found it very difficult to understand people in the city- he just ...
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Before the start of the parade.
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
In the bitterly cold wind on the top of Camp Hill, Birmingham, before the start of the parade.
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Sheltering from the wind behind a banner, before the start of the parade.
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.
St Patrick's Day Parade
Photographer: Brigitte Winsor, 12 March 2006.