Midlands
Birmigham
Soho Road, of Apna Sangeet song fame
[place]
Back to back housing - tailoring history
[home/ work]
It's the 70th anniversary next Thursday of Dick Turpin becoming the first black British boxing champion at Villa Park, Birmingham
And his brother Randolph Turpin became the first black British boxing world champion in 1951 at Earls Court I think
[work]
Moseley, Oriental Star Agencies - contribution to early Asian art and music
Smethwick
Marshall Street - visited by Malcolm X in 1965, ‘ perhaps the most racist place in Britain’, election of Peter Griffiths in 1964 following his explicitly racist campaigning (‘if you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote labour’)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/15/britains-most-racist-election-smethwick-50-years-on
[racism and resistance]
Guru Nanak Gurdwara - first in Europe?
Jain Centre in Leicester? Established as a group in 1973 and began conversion of a former red brick chapel into first Jain temple in 1980s.
[culture]
Dudley
North Street, race riots in 1962
[racism and resistance]
Wolverhampton
West Park School, Wolverhampton, hyperbolised by Enoch Powell
Nursery St, first NT Church of God in the UK (or is it in Sheffield?)
[racism and resistance]
Cannock Road gudwara in Wolverhampton was involved in the Sikh turban dispute of 1968 which arguably helped shape Enoch Powell's position on immigration
[culture/ racism & resistance]
Molineux Hotel Building, was the former home of slave, Georgw Africanus, who was freed and set up a life for himself in Nottingham.
[work]
Coventry
Two cinemas in Coventry, The Ritz, the Palledium, showing Hindi films, parents took us in the 70's . Both buildings still there.
[culture]
Leicester
Leicester. I believe that the largest Diwali celebration outside of India takes place there every year (Belgrave Road-the lights are beautiful).
[place/ culture]
The Golden Mile
https://storyofleicester.info/a-place-to-live/the-golden-mile/ …
Nottingham
Black coal miners, including Andy Cole's dad, Lincoln. The untold story of Britain's black miners
[work]