There are probably over a million Brummies laid to rest in the Graveyards of Brummagem but who were they? 99% of them are not the famous people who you can read about in any of the Library books available on the subject, they were the ordinary Men, Women and Children, yes, Children of Brummagem, they were the backbone of Brummagem who spent their lives grafting so that their families could eat, and survive the Wars, the diseases and anything else that life could throw at them. But who were they? They were your Mothers, your Fathers, your Grandparents they could even have been your Children, but who knows who they were except you? Who knows what they did for a living, who knows what they looked like, where they died, fighting for their Queen and country in foreign lands or just working till they dropped for gaffers who paid them a pittance, who wants to know?
 

We do, at the Brummies Archive, the Archive is a depository where you can tell their story and even show us and everyone else what they looked like. It’s not like the Newspapers where for a large sum you can put a few words in an obituary for one night. For a one off donation of £5 or £10 depending on your application it’s a place where you can write an account of their lives, attach photographs and know the account will be there for as long as we are. They say “nothing is forever” but the Archive will be there for as long as we are and hopefully be carried on long after we have gone by other Brummies.

 

The  www.brummies.org Archive is available at our Office in Nechells Green Community Centre in book form, where you and your family can visit, have a cuppa and look through the entries. 
 

Why not join the growing band of Brummies who want their loved one’s remembered, why not enter your own story about your life if you want to be remembered. Write in or visit for an application pack. Email applications to heartlands.history@blueyonder.co.uk
 

‘Brummies’ are based with the Heartlands Local History Society in the Nechells Green Community Centre, Melvina Road, Nechells, Birmingham, B7 4QU.
 

We are all there on a Monday (except Bank holidays) 9.30am-1pm and at the same time on the 4th Wednesday in every month (except December) when we hold our Local History Meetings.