Many thanks to D’log for flagging up this BBC Online article about the brilliant Rescue Geography: Digbeth project, which gathers peoples’ stories of the area, pre and post the onset of regeneration activity. The website’s a mine of memories old and new. It has maps, maps, maps galore that contain photos, noises and interviews with locals describing their own routes and landmarks of the area, including those of Mustafa Yalluri, who’s aged a little since this photo was taken of him. He still lives in the chip shop opposite Peugeot on the High Street. He very much hopes to be able to re-open it soon, and let’s hope if he does the scary, old-lady ghost who haunts it doesn’t gobble up all the chips.
The Rescue Geography photography exhibition with images by photographer Dan Burwood launches at MADE, Fazeley Street on 27th October.
