Digbeth – A Hundred Thousand Welcomes

LOCATION: Birmingham

FILM: Andy Howlett

A film about typography and ghost signs on the streets of Digbeth…

Digbeth – A Hundred Thousand Welcomes from Deadly Serious Productions on Vimeo.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Andy walks around Birmingham and The Black Country and sometimes turns these walks into films. He runs the Birmingham arm of Video Strolls – “A community of filmmakers. A museum of films. An introduction to videos about place and journeys.” He helps put on public screenings of work from the Video Strolls collection and he uses the twitter account @BrumStrolls to share Birmingham-specific material.

More Articles for You

A Journey Through The Ancient Commons of the Bristol Ring Road

Andy Thatcher explores the A4174 to seek out the relics of hard-won ancient rights

Unofficial Britain’s Weird and Wonderful Reads 2022

WORDS: Gareth E. Rees I’ve had an insanely busy year. It began with me finalising my debut short story collection, …

Climate Change, Ecological Breakdown & Neoliberal Anxiety in the English Edgelands

LOCATION: Southern England WORDS: Gareth E. Rees, author of Unofficial Britain “Global warming had gone past the tipping point, the …

Newcastle’s Haunted Alley: The Mysterious Origins of The White Lady of the Quayside.

Joe Barton and Jack Gardner search for the true life origins of a dockside spectre

Edgeland Visions: Heraldic Relics from an Imaginary Time

In advance of his exhibition in Margate, Matt James Healy shares his abstract visions of a world on the edge

Beer Cans, Wildflowers and a Dead Dog’s Ashes – A Dream Life Beneath the Pylon of Hackney Marsh

With the remains of his dead dog in a cardboard tube, Gareth E. Rees returns to the pylon that sparked his edgeland obsession