There was a new lesson on the school curriculum in February 1916 – what to do in the event of a Zeppelin raid. The official advice was to go home, turn out the lights and hide under the stairs or “…
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BIRMINGHAM: THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE Back in Nineteen Seventy Six When the Hot Sun baked the broiling Bricks And Denis Howell MP for Small Heath Was ‘Minister for Drough…
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Southside Johnnies and Chinatown Jinks Down ‘Olloway ‘Ed To Wing Yip’s Pagoda Leading the Way To Chinatown’s lovely odour A tasty meal cooked in a Wok At Chung … Source: SOUTHSIDE JOHNN…
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EDGBASTON – THE HOME OF TENNIS Edgbaston is the place Where they serve up many an Ace Invented by Major Harry Gem: A game for lithe athletic men At 8 Ampton Road: ‘Fairlight’ Y…
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George Orwell’s seminal book on life in Britain in the 1930’s before the old world order changed forever with the apocalyptic second world war which swept away the British Empire and the old certainties……began in Birmingham on his way north through the Black Country and Staffordshire and then through south Manchester and onwards through Lancashire ending up in Wigan where great contemporary writer and broadcaster hails from. His humorous tome: “Pies and Prejudice” tells the story of the North of England….pies, mills, flat caps and whippets and pigeons….not forgetting the “bread and circus” of the people of the North, especially the Industrial North-West centred on the great industrial Metropolese of Manchester and Liverpool…..football…Tellingly Orwell began his sojourn in Birmingham which was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution with Matthew Boulton and James Watt and the Lunar Society fomenting that revolution in Birmingham with their steam engines which powered the Industrial Revolution…..
George Orwell travelled across Britain documenting austerity and its affects in British cities, including Birmingham, as part of his Journey to Wigan Pier (Photographs: Adam Yosef/Public Domain)
The Daily Mirror’s Real Britain column is embarking on a year-long project, recreating George Orwell’s iconic The Road to Wigan Pier journey, which began in Birmingham.
Just like Orwell, writers Ros Wynne-Jones and Claire Donnelly are going to visit towns and cities across the UK to see how people are living and coping with austerity.
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Southside Johnnies and Chinatown Jinks Down ‘Olloway ‘Ed To Wing Yip’s Pagoda Leading the Way To Chinatown’s lovely odour A tasty meal cooked in a Wok At Chung …
Keith Bracey the Brummie Bard Birmingham & Black Country poet & writer 