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4 unusual facts about Winson Green


Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass

Between 1990 and 2000, "Theodore Dalrymple", whose real name is Anthony Daniels, worked as a physician at City Hospital and Birmingham Prison, both located in the Winson Green area of Birmingham, England.

Michael Manley

He attended a number of venues including the Afro Caribbean Resource Centre in Winson Green and Digbeth Civic Hall.

Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

On August 18, 2011, al-Yaqoubi led prayers from a stage in Summerfield Park, Winson Green, Birmingham to some 20,000 people who gathered to remember three men killed while attempting to protect their neighbourhood from rioters and looters during the England riots.

Tom Ruane

After his release, he was arrested in 1918 in connection with the German Plot, this time in Wormwood Scrubs and Winson Green.


James Watt's Mad Machine

James Watt's Mad Machine is a set of sculptural railings and gates at Winson Green Metro station, Winson Green, Birmingham, England, designed by Tim Tolkien, supported by Eric Klein Velderman, Paula Woof and pupils at James Watt Infants and Junior Schools, with whose site it forms a boundary.

Soho and Winson Green railway station

Soho & Winson Green was an intermediate station on the Great Western Railway's London (Paddington) to Birkenhead via Birmingham (Snow Hill) line, serving the Soho and Winson Green areas.


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Lesslie Newbigin

In retirement he took on the pastorate of Winson Green URC, opposite the gates of HM Prison Birmingham.