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Take Your Place in History

Take Your Place in History

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Copyright 2008, Eastside Community Heritage.

Coloured Men's Institute in 1926. Image taken from Kamal Chuchie project which charted the history of the black and Asian community in Canning Town.

Copyright 2008, Tyne and Wear Museums and Archives Service.

Charles Johnstone (Black Charlie), born in Mobile, Alabama, USA was a sailor from a young age. In the course of his travels, he married an Irish woman, Magaret and fathered three daughters.

Crown Copyright 2008, The National Archives

Mary Wheatland, the Bognor bathing woman 1903. She taught children to swim and saved many lives for which she received medals and recognition from the Royal Humane Society.

Image supplied by Archif Menywod Cymru Women's Archive of Wales.

Majorie Edmunds, Llanelli, South Wales. Women's Auxiliary Air Force engineer, on the nose of an aircraft she'd just served at Dunsfold airfield during WWII.

Copyright 2008, Norfolk Record Office

Dr Allan Glais(y)er Minns, Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk 1904-5-6. We believe he may have been the first black mayor in the UK.

Copyright 2008, Tyne and Wear Archives Services

Two black seamen photographed by Roland Park during the Clive Street Slum Clearances in the 1930s.

By permission of Godfrey Duffy. Copyright 2008, Tyne and Wear Archives Services

Grandparents on the Moon C.1921. North East's Irish Community. Godfrey Duffy's grandfather Jimmy Hughes and grandmother Bella Smith married in a Catholic church in 1921.

Crown copyright 2008 Greater Manchester County Record Office www.bury.gov.uk

Patient 11957 Annie Oliver, aged 23, diagnosed with perpetual melancholia. From the archive of Prestwich Asylum, in 1900.

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