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Handsworth (grid reference) is an inner-city area of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. Historically in Staffordshire, Handsworth lies just outside Birmingham City Centre and near the town of Smethwick.
Handsworth was recorded in the Domesday Survey of 1086, as a holding of William Fitz-Ansculf, the Lord of Dudley. The name Handsworth originates from its Saxon owner Hondes and the Old English...
Sep 6, 2017 · The Red Lion pub, Soho Road, Handsworth, on February 14, 1949. People were brought over from British colonies in the Caribbean to work in local munitions factories during the Second World...
- A Place called Handsworth
- A Place For Everybody
- Growing Up in The 70s and 80s in Handsworth
- The Riots
- From A No-Go Zone to An Up-And-Coming Urban Hotspot
- The People of Handsworth Know That
Based in the North of Birmingham, it was a peaceful rural town, a manufacturing suburb during the Industrial Revolution and is a vibrant multicultural place now. “‘There’s more to Handsworth than crime’ — Twins attract crowds in lockdown with park gym”, says an article in the local newspaper, The Birmingham Mail, about a couple of twins who gathere...
Birmingham and Handsworth have been home to people from all over the world for almost two centuries. Irish, Italians and Polish arrived in Birmingham throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Afro-Caribbeans, mainly Jamaicans, came to Handsworth during World War II to work in the arms factories and post-war to rebuild the UK or work in the public ser...
Sharon Duggal, a writer with an Indian background, grew up in Handsworth during the 1970s and 1980s. From that experience, she wrote a book called Handsworth Times, fictional but based on her experience of growing up in such a neighbourhood. Asked what those years were like, she recalls: “Music was very prevalent everywhere:reggae from the sound sy...
In 1981, as in many other towns in the UK, riots broke out in Handsworth throughout the summer and would be repeated in 1985, and they would be much more widespread and violent. It all started over a minor issue, as the Birmingham Mail recalls in this article. A policeman saw that a car was badly parked and went to give him a ticket. When he got to...
A few weeks ago, The Times published an article about the property market in which it highlighted several areas of the UK that have been no-go zones and where prices have been rising in recent years. According to the newspaper, these are good areas to invest in because house prices were set to increase in value over the next few years, and there we...
Steel Pulse has a song called Handsworth Revolutionin an album of the same name, which starts with these lyrics: I say the people of Handsworth, know that/ One hand wash the other so they say/ So let’s join hands my bredren/ Make the way for our children/ Thus, some people try to face the problems and improve the neighbourhood. Hector Pinkey, aka M...
Handsworth has seen massive changes over the decades, from a quiet rural settlement to an industrial heartland and then a thriving African-Caribbean community following a post-war rebuilding...
The ancient parish of Handsworth was in Staffordshire until 1911, when it became a suburb of Birmingham. It originally covered an area of 7,752 acres lying roughly north-east and south-west of the River Tame, on land that rises from the river valley (at the 300 ft. level) to 550 ft. in the extreme north-east and south-west corners of the parish.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Handsworth like this: HANDSWORTH, a town, a township, a parish, and a sub-district, in West Bromwich district, Stafford.
