Curated by Brendan Jackson, a re-presentation of 111 photographs selected from the archives of the Express & Star newspaper, Jubilee Arts and Sandwell Council. The Express & Star was founded in 1880 and is still one of the biggest selling regional dailies. Jubilee Arts was a community arts organisation, founded in West Bromwich in 1974, the same year Sandwell Council came into being. The images in the show are a small personal selection from browsing through these archives, found in boxes and basements, images from West Bromwich and slightly further afield. Though there are a few photographs from the very beginning on the 20th century, the majority are within my living memory or that of my parents. Visitors can add their own photographs and stories…

On show at The Public, West Bromwich, West Midlands, UK, 11th May – 12th July. For details go to www.thepublic.com

As a follow up to interchat event, and as part of the Birmingham bid for UK City of Culture 2013, on Friday 23rd April and Saturday 24th April we had team of social reporters out on the streets documenting life in the City of a 1000 Accents. You can see the whole blog as it happened at birminghamculture.org

Or you can check bj and simon’s contributions which are compiled on the Laundry site here: http://www.laundryline.co.uk/news/24-hour-blog-the-results/