Guinea Gardens
This charming chair and shed are on one of the Guinea Gardens plots in Westbourne Road near the Botanical Gardens. In the distant past the gardens swept all the way across Edgbaston to Holloway Head.
Guinea Gardens
The main gates to the Guinea Gardens off Westbourne Road in Edgbaston. The guinea gardens used to run all the way across to Holloway Head near the city centre but today the last of the gardens can be ...
Gurdip Gill interview 1
Gurdip Gill was born in Birmingham in 1969. His father is a Sikh who moved here from the Punjab around 1950, and has often talked to his son about what it was like when he first arrived:
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Gurdip Gill interview 2
Gurdip Gill was born in Birmingham in 1969. Gurdip Gill was 12 when riots broke out in Handsworth:
To listen to an extract of this interview select the link below.
Recorded and edited by Helen ...
Gurdwara
Ravi Das Bhawan, on Grove Lane/Union Row.
Gurdwara Yaad Baba Deep Singh JI Shaheed
Stands on the Soho Road. Photograph taken one afternoon in Ocotber 2003.
Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara
The Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara in Mary Street. The was the first Sikh temple in Balsall Heath and was opened in 1958
Guru Nanak Gurdwara
Located on the Soho Road. The first was opened in 1970 in a former Polish nighclub. This building is an imposing feature of the Handsworth landscape.
Guru Nanak Temple
The Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara on the Soho Road named after the founding father of Sikhism. The first one in Handsworth was opened in 1970 taking over the premises of a Polish nightclub.
Guru Nanak Temple
The imposing front entrance of the Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
Guru Nanak Temple
The temple is a familiar part of the Handsworth skyline.
Guru Ravidass Bhawan
Stands on Union Row and is one of the most visible landmarks on the Handsworth skyline
Guru Ravidass Bhawan
Located off the Soho Road on Union Row. This is a view of the front gateway from across the road.
Gwen Hatton and Emily Hancox
Taken some years after the move to Faraday House. Gwen and Emily are photographed by the flower beds outside the block.
Gwen Hatton and family
Left to right are: Gwen Hatton, Doris (sister), Stan Hancox (brother-in-law), Emily Morton (mother), and Gladys (sister).
The background shows a nice view of the old shops which were eventually demolished, ...
Gypsies on the Black Patch
Travellers lived on the area known as the black Patch off Foundry Lane.
Gypsies on the Black Patch
The Black Patch was a large open space which was regularly used as a campsite by Travellers. It is situated near Nineveh Road, between the Foundry and the main road. At time of writing in 2003 it is in ...
Gypsies on the Black Patch, Handsworth
Gypsy encampment on the Black Patch, 1898. The gypsies regularly used a part of the Black Patch for their winter camp, having spent the summer travelling about the Midlands.