GENERATIONS : FAMILY PHOTO GALLERY

Lyn di Mascio


This is my nonna and nonno. Her parents fled Italy. They had il baccio della morte. The mafias kiss of death. Maria Carmina eloped with Giuseppe (my great grandparents). She had been promised to someone else. They jumped on the first boat not knowing the destination. When they arrived here they were sent to Birmingham where they set up a boarding house in the old Italian quarter. Giuseppe also made ice cream and sold it.


Teresa and Giovanni di Mascio (my grandparents)
1920s, Italian Quarter, Birmingham
Italian Quarter, Birmingham , 1920s

Karen Basra


Cooper Family at home in Castle Vale


Mom and Dad, John and Patricia, my Brother Stephen, Sister Gail and I, small Sister Karen
1978, Castle Vale, Birmingham
Castle Vale, Birmingham, 1978

The Millichopes


Patricia and Tony approx 1962 (left), Tony and Amy approx 1988 (middle), and Patricia with her great grandchild, Ella Margot Aspinall 2021 (right).


Patricia Millichope (left and right), Tony Millichope (left and middle), Amy Millichope (middle), Ella Margot Aspinall (right)
1962 - 2021, Birmingham
Birmingham, 1962 - 2021

Sayed Mohammed


My Mother with my brothers and sisters


My Mother, young brother and sisters
1983, Sparkbrook, Birmingham
Sparkbrook, Birmingham , 1983

Jo Wheeler


This is a picture from my Grandparent's wedding on 2nd Oct 1915 at St Oswalds Church, Small Heath, Birmingham.


My grandfather (the groom) was born in 1888, Stamford Road, Handsworth, with my grandmother (the bride) being born in 1892, Denbigh Street, Small Heath. The lady in the hat (next to the groom) is my great-grandmother who had three children out of wedlock before 1900, my grandfather being one of them. Next to my great-grandmother is the bride's brother (born 1882). Next to the bride is the groom's sister, born in 1898, Westminster Road, Handsworth - also one of the illegitimate children. Next to the groom's sister is the bride's father, born in 1857, Leicester. By the time of the wedding it is said that the other illegitimate child, born 1886, Ladywood Road, Birmingham had found out he was illegitimate and emigrated to Canada in 1912, so missed the wedding. I do not know who the four children at the front are.
1915, A studio not far from the church in Small Heath, Birmingham
A studio not far from the church in Small Heath, Birmingham, 1915

Debbie Tye


Gladys Betty Watkin and Harold Brindley Wedding


Gladys Betty Watkin and Harol Brindley's wedding party
1943, J. Alfred Stevens Photography Studio, Derby
J. Alfred Stevens Photography Studio, Derby, 1943

Pat Edwards


4 Generations of the Edwards Family


Dorothy Webb, Susan Edwards, John Edwards, Synthia Edwards, Pat Edwards
1968, Canterbury
Canterbury, 1968

Kathryn Mann


Me and my four siblings, one of my Cousins, my Parents and two sets of my Aunties and Uncles, all sat down the steps at our Auntie’s garden in Hollywood, Birmingham. My Mom was one of seven siblings and my Dad was an only child, who had five children together, so all my family memories are noisy, busy and loud, much like the Madness song ‘Our House’. This photo shows us during a gathering, I was only 3/4ish so can’t recall whether it was someone’s birthday, an anniversary or just a Sunday lunch, but we all have many memories like this. A family get together was always loud and fun and we’d end up rolling home long after dark, with a ‘doggy bag’ of leftover food, nodding off as the lights tunnels of Birmingham flew by.


Auntie Dolly and Uncle Stan, Mom and Dad, Auntie Vera and Uncle Bob, my cousin Tracy, my sisters Vanessa, Vivienne and Elizabeth, my brother Michael and me (Kathryn)
1981, The garden of a house on Douglas Road, Hollywood, Birmingham
The garden of a house on Douglas Road, Hollywood, Birmingham, 1981

Peter Woodhall


GI and bride


Bride Peggy Woodhall and USAF pilot Paul Tranka (later Colonel)
1952, Erdington
Erdington, 1952

Victor Swain


Me in my sailors outfit, my Mum, Marion Rhoda Swain, on the Coronation day in 1952. I was 16 months old at the time.


Marion Rhoda Swain (bottom right) and son Victor Swain (bottom right)
1952, Deakins Road, Yardley, Birmingham
Deakins Road, Yardley, Birmingham, 1952

Emily Sharp


This photograph shows three generations of women on my mother's side, on holiday at the seaside


My Mom Margo is the child on the right, my Aunty Carol the child in the middle and their cousin Lesley is on the left. My grandmother Betty Biddle is the lady on the right and her sister Margaret Carpmail (Aunty Peach) is on the left. In the middle is my great-grandmother Edith Jackson. At the time this picture was taken my great-grandmother lived on Merrivale Road in Smethwick where my Nan grew up. My Nan lived with her husband Ernie (who with Mr Webb set up the auction house Biddle and Webb) and her daughters in Erdington.
1949 , Somewhere at the seaside (probably Weston Super Mare)
Somewhere at the seaside (probably Weston Super Mare), 1949

Nina Mildenhall


Kathleen Ryan came from Southern Ireland and John Beckfoŕd came from Westmoreland Jamaica. They found they had a lot in common when they came to Birmingham. The welcome to both sides was hard when they arrived in England. They both worked all there life even after retirement and both stayed together through the good and the bad in life. Sadly John passed away in 2011 and Kathleen passed in 2014, leaving two children and four grandchildren, passing on the respect for people of colour and religion.


Kathleen Ryan and John Beckford
1959, St Francis Church, Hockley, Birmingham
St Francis Church, Hockley, Birmingham, 1959
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