The Heartlands Local History Society The Heartlands Local History Society was set up in May of 1993 after a meeting with Dr Carl Chinn at Bloomsbury Library Community room, showed that there was a need for such a Society in the Heartlands area. The first meeting was held in the Bloomsbury Library Community Room in Nechells, Birmingham, and has been meeting there ever since on the 4th Wednesday in every month at 10.30am. The Society, based in Nechells, covers the Birmingham Heartlands area, which is defined as on the borders of; Aston, Gosta Green, Ashted, Vauxhall, Duddeston, Bordesley, Small Heath, Saltley, Washwood Heath, Bromford and Nechells. We show our collection of Photographs and memorabilia from the ‘Old End’, at Exhibitions and School Reunions across the Heartlands area, we have over 2000 Photographs that cover Schools, Factories, Churches, Public Houses, Shops, Streets, Rivers, Canals and some of the People who used to live in the Heartlands area before most of it was demolished to make way for new roads and Industry. Because we have found, that not everyone can attend Meetings in the Daytime, we have started a Postal & Email Membership scheme, whereby Postal & Email Members will have the same rights as visiting members and will be informed about everything that is going on in the Society, sometimes they will know before the other Members are told at the next Meeting. Postal & Email Members having advance notice of events can decide whether to attend the Event or not. Since the early years when there were only a handful of Members, we have now grown into a Society that can boast over 140 Members, some from around the World in places like the USA, Canada and Australia. People all over the World, who thought their ‘Old End’ has disappeared forever but have now found that The Heartlands Local History Society has some of it in their Archive and have promised to keep our ‘Old End’ alive for ever. We are always on the lookout for new photographs, memorabilia, stories, poems etc that we can show at our Exhibitions, so if you think you might have something that would remind the Heartlands people of their History, bring it along to one of our meetings or send it via an Email. Whatever you do, “don’t throw it away”. Eric Hill For the Heartlands Local History Society 2002

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