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Good morning I'm a new member (just joined but have read bits of the forum for years) so my apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place. I'm a Registrar at Birmingham Register Office as well as being an Historian, and I'm aiming to write a book for our 200th anniversary in 2037 about 200 years...

From 1989, Michael Buerk presents four interesting programmes about the history of Birmingham. Whether the place has improved in the following 34 years is a matter of opinion.

Hi everyone, this is my first post so I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing and fingers crossed the spell-checker works. The lady is Margaret Joyce Szewczuk nee Bennett, born Harris in 1919, d.1982, the grandmother i never met. There’s a few questions i have even though it’s way too late but I’ll...

Hi everyone, I am currently looking into the history of St Giles church in Rowley as next year is the 100th anniversary of our 4th building and I will be doing a presentation evening on the history of the church and the area it serves. So, I would very much appreciate if you could tell me...

This is a brief extract from “Birmingham – the ‘Friendly’ city,” in my recently published Design and Culture - a transdisciplinary history. Industrial Revolution – 1750-1870 - Steam, iron &glass. This concentration of industrious enterprise meant that by the mid nineteenth century upwards of...

Does anyone remember the Curry Centre, at the bottom of the Bristol Road almost next door to the Scala picture house. It was one of the first Curry Houses in Birmingham.

Hi there all! Londoner here! Im doing some research on Afro-caribbean restaurants, butchers, bars, clubs etc. and i wondered with the great combined knowledge of Birmingham here if people knew perhaps Some of the older establishments (Ones still in business and also those no longer in...

I am just in the process of purchasing this property and was wondering if anyone knows anything about the premises or has any family members who know anything about the premises. I am l;ooking for as much information as possible about anything to do with the premises. Thank :biggrin: (Original...

Hello, I'm new to the forum so apologies if this is in the wrong thread. I'm an artist based in Manchester but over summer I'll be artist in residence at The Rea Garden, a plot of land on Floodgate Street next to the River Rea. (info here: https://behindcloseddoors.org.uk/?page_id=149) Much...