It has the survey of poverty about it,but that wasn’t the case: Balsall Heath was a working-lesson area, but we were always sent out clean, or we were well fed Janet Mendelsohn was an American photography student at Birmingham University,making a photo essay of inner city Balsall Heath. I vaguely remember her taking this picture, clicking away as we played on the “bomb peck”, and abomb site just behind our house on Clevedon Road. I was eight years faded. nowadays,the street backs on to parkland; back then, it was this wasteland.
We would stamp on the ground, and listening out for the hollow sound of the cellars of bombed-out houses,where we could make dens. There were a lot of faded doors lying around, which were perfect for building camps such as this one.
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Source: theguardian.com