Stirchley Carnival was held annually in the 1920s and 1930s, with the last carnival in 1939, and then a few carnivals were held in the 1980s.
In the 1980s oral histories were taken from local residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Fisher who recalled the carnival. It was also at the 1937 carnival fair that the couple first met.
“The carnival procession would start from Cotteridge Park and go down Franklin Road and Mary Vale Road to the Pershore Road. The Procession would be a band, some floats …
We wanted to let you know that an unofficial guide to the Birmingham City Council libraries consultation is now available on the Birmingham Loves Libraries website. We encourage everyone to read and use the guide to help them complete the consultation survey. The guide discusses the Council’s proposals and concerns with those proposals before explaining the different sections of the survey.
The Birmingham Loves Libraries website also has a number of other useful resources available, inlcuding posters to download, and they are also sharing updates on social media platforms.
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Libraries Awareness Walk! Here are some of the photos taken on the day. Thank you to everyone who came for some or all of the walk, to the writers and artists who shared readings along the way and the supporters who greeted the walkers at their final destination! Thanks also to the Bisque and Bean Cafe for hosting the banner making workshop and library staff and volunteers who put on activities during lunchtime.
A consortium consisting of Stirchley Art Room, Friends of Stirchley Library and Number 11 Arts are going to be holding the first in a series of Library Awareness Walks on Saturday 11th May.
The consortium felt that citizens must be made aware of the proposed cuts to library services in the region, and the idea of Library Awareness Walks was formed. Partnerships have been made with local artists, organisations and individuals to develop activities before, during and after the walks to raise awareness of the situation that the citizens of Birmingham are finding themselves in.
On the Saturday there will be a …
The Rea is a well-known companion to Stirchley, flowing gently to the east, tucked away in the parks and behind houses.
A couple of the volunteers have been ordering and cataloguing some of the photographs of the Rea which are kept in the library (see some of them here). As part of this we started to work out where some of the more local ones had been taken and drew a rough map….. which has now become a slightly less rough map.
Using Ordinance Survey maps from the 1880s and 1890s, we traced the meandering Rea and some of …