Handsworth & Perry Barr Through Time
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Through Time
ISBN-10
184868908X
ISBN-13
9781848689084
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Imprint
Amberley Publishing
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 15th, 2010
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
286 grams
Dimensions
16.60 x 24.30 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Warwickshire, West MidlandsPlaces in old photographs
Ksh 2,900.00
Temporarily out of stock, due soon
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Handsworth & Perry Barr have changed and developed over the last century.
A colourful, complex mix of contrast and continuity typifies much of what has happened to Handsworth during the past century. Soho Road, and nearby, provide a prime example of radical change: bright, lively shops run by people of West Indian, Pakistani and Indian background share space with an elegant Muslim mosque and imposing Sikh Gurdwara (temple) silently calling into question a famous poet''s dictum, ''Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet''. Handsworth (and part of Perry Barr) remains a residential suburb, its most famous residents surely being Boulton, Watt and Murdoch, the trailblazing eighteenth-century entrepreneur engineers whose work attracted world-wide acclaim. Even just a skim through these pages will reveal intrinsically interesting as well as highly nostalgic comparisons and contrasts, of then and now.
Get Handsworth & Perry Barr Through Time by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Amberley Publishing and it has pages.
