CASBA Celebration Event (By Jennifer)
CASBA Advocacy have done a project on the lives of people living in Monyhull Hospital, ‘From Institution to Community’. On Saturday 6th October they had their open event to show all their work since starting the project September last year.
Read moreOral History Training Session (by Jennifer)
On Wednesday 8th August 2018 Jan Walmsley came to Solihull Action through Advocacy to deliver Oral History training…
Read morePhotographs of Middlefield Hospital
We can now share with you two photographs from postcards of Middlefield hospital!
Read moreOur Visit to Hampton Church (by Jennifer)
On Tuesday 17th July 2018, we went to Hampton in Arden to visit Hampton Church; we were greeted by the Church Secretary who showed us to the chronicles…
Read moreEASY READ - First Trip to Solihull Core Library Archives
We went to Solihull Core Library to look at the local history collection.
EASY READ VERSION
We went to Solihull Core Library to look at their local history collection. This blog tells you about what we found.
Read moreFirst trip to Solihull Core Library Archives
NB: this blog currently doesn’t include any photos as we are waiting on advice on copyright permissions. These will hopefully follow soon!
Yesterday we took a trip to the Core Library in Solihull to have a look at some of their local history collection relating to Middlefield Hospital. Unlike Hampton Manor, which still looks largely the same as it ever has (from the outside), and of which there are many photographs online, there seems to be no photographs of Middlefield Hospital online at all. The fact that Middlefield Hospital has since been completely demolished and has had houses built on top of the original site made it even more important to source some images for the project. Photographs are also a brilliant tool to help jog people’s memory…
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