Janet Mendelsohn was an American photography student at Birmingham University, making a photo essay of inner city Balsall Heath. I vaguely remember her taking this picture, clicking away as we played on the “bomb peck”, a bomb site just behind our ...
The late Patricia Hambidge lived in a back-to-back with her family in Conybere Street in Balsall Heath before she married her husband John and the couple lived in Stechford . Pat, who penned poems about life in Balsall Heath, wrote the following ...
Patricia Hambidge was a proud and “true Brummie” who took time out to put pen to paper before she died to create a wonderful series of poems about life growing up in Balsall Heath. Inspired by seeing nostalgic pictures of Balsall Heath appearing in the ...
The Cannabis Disposal team tweeted: “Top marks to a 999 caller that led officers to the discovery of a cannabis farm at a former school in Balsall Heath. “No profit for cannabis cultivating criminals thanks to community intelligence. Your calls make a ...
We believe the photo was taken in 1968 in the Varna Road area of Balsall Heath. The little girl was captured by American student Janet Mendelsohn and the image is now frozen in time. She took thousands of images while studying in Birmingham, shortly ...
An exhibition of stunning photographs of a rundown inner city area of Birmingham is proving incredibly popular. Today, we publish more pictures dating back 50 years taken by American student Janet Mendelsohn , depicting life in Balsall Heath when it ...