Handsworth and Perry Barr Through Time - Couverture souple

Armstrong, Eric; Frost, Vernon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184868908X ISBN 13 : 9781848689084

Editeur : Amberley Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

A colourful, complex mix of contrast and continuity typifies much of what has happened to Handsworth during the past century. Soho Road, and nearby, provide a prime example of radical change: bright, lively shops run by people of West Indian, Pakistani and Indian background share space with an elegant Muslim mosque and imposing Sikh Gurdwara (temple) silently calling into question a famous poet's dictum, 'Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet'. Handsworth (and part of Perry Barr) remains a residential suburb, its most famous residents surely being Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, the trailblazing eighteenth-century entrepreneur engineers whose work attracted world-wide acclaim. Even just a skim through these pages will reveal intrinsically interesting as well as highly nostalgic comparisons and contrasts, of then and now.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Eric Armstrong was born, raised and educated in Handsworth, Birmingham. Following army service during 1942 to 1947, he became a student at Birmingham University. During retirement he has developed a keen interest in postcards of old Birmingham and has written a number of historical books about the city.

Vernon is a local history author who lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Amberley Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184868908X
• ISBN 13: 9781848689084
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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