He was also an architect and designed many churches in the south of England such as St Francis of Assisi Church in Birmingham and Our Lady of Loreto and St Winefride's Church in London.
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"Handsworth Riots - Twenty Summers On Pogus Caesar / OOM Gallery Collection of archive photographs taken during Handsworth riots of 1985.
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Filmmaker and artist Pogus Caesar extensively photographed the second Handsworth riot, it was also witnessed by Bronx graffiti artists Brim and Goldie, who documented the devastation in the Channel 4 documentary Bombing.
Alfonso Toft (1866, Handsworth, Birmingham, - 1964), was a landscape artist.
The images of New York are taken by Pogus Caesar in the tough areas of Bronx, Brooklyn, Harlem and Queens, Vanley Burke's photographs are of Handsworth, an inner city area of Birmingham.
Desmond Douglas MBE (born 1955 in Jamaica) is a British table tennis player, He lived and was brought up in the area of Handsworth, Birmingham, West Midlands.
In 1970, Boyle was awarded a life peerage as Baron Boyle of Handsworth, of Salehurst in the County of Sussex and became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
An adopted child, he was educated at Handsworth (by the Sisters of Mercy) and later attended St Philip's Grammar School, followed by University College, Oxford, where he studied history.
Handsworth Secondary School, District of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Handsworth, West Midlands, a suburb of Birmingham in the West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Handsworth, South Yorkshire, a suburb of Sheffield in Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Handsworth Park (originally Victoria Park) is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England.
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From the 1970s the Handsworth Carnival (now removed to Perry Park, Perry Barr, as Birmingham International Carnival, having been said by the acting Head of Parks to have "outgrown Handsworth Park") and later the festival of Vaisakhi.
Handsworth Riots – Twenty Summers On is the name of an exhibition of photographs taken by Birmingham film maker and photographer Pogus Caesar during and in the wake of the Handsworth Riots, 9–11 September 1985.
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In September 1985, yhe days were warm and sunny, thousands of dancing revellers, many in brightly coloured costumes were pouring into the streets of Handsworth, an area of Birmingham, Great Britain well known for its rich and vibrant cultural mix.
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2005 was the 20th anniversary of the events that exploded onto the streets of Lozells and Handsworth.
Birmingham historian Dr. Carl Chinn noted that during WW2 the boundary between Handsworth and Handsworth Wood marked the line between being safe and unsafe from bombing, with Handsworth Wood being an official evacuation zone due to its very country like, undeveloped landscape.
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Mr Hudson, the singer/songwriter was born in Handsworth Wood.
One aspect of Handsworth history which remains very much alive is the traditional sword dancing.
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Their leader, George Fox, preached on Cinder Hill Green in Handsworth to thousands of people in the 1650s.
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The Stayce family were Quakers, one of the new religious sects which surfaced in England after the English Civil War.
All members of the band grew up in Handsworth, a suburb of Sheffield where three of the members (James, Scott and Anthony) became friends in primary school and then later bonded over their shared passion for music.
John Horace Parry CMG, MBE (born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, on 26 April 1914 - died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 25 August 1982) was a distinguished maritime historian, who served as Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University.
Born to a Methodist family in Maltby in Yorkshire, Ball was articled to the architect William Wilmer Pocock in London in 1877, and moved to Birmingham in 1880 to set up in private practice after winning a competition to design the Handsworth Wesleyan Theological College, now the Hamstead campus of Birmingham City University.
Long Sword dances vary in the way they are performed, with some being slow and militaristic, such as the Grenoside or performed with pace and speed like Handsworth dances from near Sheffield.
The gang was founded in the Small Heath area of the city, but later spread to the Birmingham boroughs Lozells, Handsworth Birmingham, Sparkbrook, and Aston.
She was educated in the Benedictine convent at Caverswall, in Staffordshire, and, when she was nineteen, her father founded the convent of Our Lady of Mercy at Handsworth, near Birmingham.
Parr was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire (now Birmingham) in 1864, the eldest child of Thomas Parr and Frances "Fanny" Nowell.
Shades of Black is a community organization in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, formed after the Handsworth riots in the mid-1980s, extending from the 1990s to work in other deprived areas including Stechford.
On this route it passes the districts of Wybourn, Darnall, Handsworth, and the village of Catcliffe, at which a slip road connects to the now defunct Sheffield City Airport, Sheffield Business Park and the Advanced Manufacturing Park (AMP).
The church was dedicated in 1910 and it was consecrated in 1914 when a parish was assigned from St Mary’s, Handsworth and St James’s, Handsworth.
He promised to bear all the expenses of creating a convent, and helped by an endowment of £2000 from the Earl of Shrewsbury he commissioned Augustus Pugin to design the building for them.
The OWWR had come under the control of the GWR by this time, and so the GWR constructed a link from Smethwick to Handsworth, which was opened at the same time, to connect it to the GWR's Birmingham Snow Hill to Wolverhampton Low Level Line.
Another famous type is the "Boden" bred by Jack Boden in Handsworth with a flying record of 20:40 in 1975, and are old birds.
Vanley's first notable exhibition “Handsworth from the Inside” was held at the Ikon Gallery Birmingham and then the Commonwealth Institute in London in 1983.
Crowe was born in Abercynon, South Wales but moved to Handsworth, Birmingham with his family when he was two years old.
It is referred to as Witestan,in the Domesday Book of 1086, at which time it was part of the same manor as Handsworth (Handswrde), now a suburb of Sheffield .
William Oswald Hodgkinson was born on 21 March 1835 in Handsworth, Warwick, England.