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West Midlands. Handsworth (grid reference SP035905) 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 is a suburb of south eastern Sheffield, in South Yorkshire, England. It covers an area of approximately 5 square miles (13 km 2), and has a population of approximately 9,957. It has five schools, four churches, a variety of small shops, a large supermarket, and a range of commercial and light industrial businesses.
- 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...
Oct 3, 2019 · Continuing to explore hidden Handsworth gems, I have been to visit an extraordinary survivor from the medieval period; Handsworth Old Town Hall.
Aug 12, 2019 · Its high street – the iconic Soho Road – has been mentioned in numerous Bollywood films and bhangra songs. Lenny Henry’s Radio 4 comedy, Rudy’s Rare Records is set in Handsworth. And England’s football international Jimmy Moore and Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi were both born here (while Ozzy Osbourne was born just a mile off in Aston).
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The Early History of Handsworth. Geographically, the parish of Handsworth is set in the centre of the diamond-shaped Birmingham Plateau, surrounded by the rivers Trent, Severn and Avon and cut into by the Tame. The latter is important from the point of view of local history.
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Feb 24, 2021 · In this video, we'll be walking along Villa & Lozells Rds. Let's discover the locals, shops & overall scenery! Handsworth is a suburban town and also an inner city, urban area of northwest ...
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