Month: December 2020

21st December, the Winter Solstice, marks the shortest day and longest night of the year. In 2020 artists and cultural institutions across the Midlands come together to provide hundreds of … Read more

Thomas, or Tom for short, was the third child of Arthur and Alice Mawby who, originally from Bristol, now found themselves living in Summerhill Street near to the Jewellery Quarter. … Read more

So Much More Than Just Thomas’ wife Mary was born into relative privilege in 1832, something she never took for granted as her later life would show. She Married Thomas … Read more

If ever there was a tragic life albeit all to brief Lily Evans’ was it. She was born to parents William and Emma from Nechells on July 2nd, 1884 weighing … Read more

John Alfred Langford was born in Bradford Street Birmingham to Parents John Langford and Harriet Eaton on September 12th, 1823. He attended a private school in Deritend before leaving to … Read more

Major Thomas Henry Gem was a man of many talents, he was a lawyer, soldier, writer, playwright and sportsman amongst others. It is however for one sport which Harry Gem … Read more

If there was ever a man born to do the job he did it was Jacob Wilson. After all his father had been the Town Crier before him and his … Read more