COMERFORD WAY: Patrick Comerford: Handsworth

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30 December 2025

Robert Jenrick has besmirched
Handsworth. And, despite his
childhood claims, he knows
little about Aston or Villa Park

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Luke Perry’s ‘Forward Together’ at Aston Hall is a celebration of Birmingham’s diversity … Robert Jenrick has shown little knowledge of dive...

11 October 2025

Are we in danger of
ignoring the 14 signs
of the rise of fascism
in the US and Britain?

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Standing against fascism on the streets of London almost 90 years ago … the Battle of Cable Street on Sunday 4 October 1936 (Photograph: Pat...

15 February 2025

Soho Square and the origins
of a name and a family
motto: are hunting links
no more than myths?

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Soho Square at the heart of Soho in London’s West End … but where does the name comes from? (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2025) Patrick ...

22 August 2024

How Saint Mary’s Church in
Handsworth has links with
the Industrial Revolution …
and the Comberford family

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Saint Mary’s Church, Handsworth, also known as Handsworth Old Church, is sometimes described as the ‘Cathedral of the Industrial Revolution’...

19 August 2024

Aston Hall, the stately
home near Villa Park,
is a fine example of
a Jacobean prodigy house

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Aston Hall, a Grade I listed Jacobean house in Aston, is one of the finest examples of a Jacobean prodigy house (Photograph: Patrick Comerfo...

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Robert Jenrick has besmirched Handsworth. And, despite his childhood claims, he knows little about Aston or Villa Park

Are we in danger of ignoring the 14 signs of the rise of fascism in the US and Britain?

Soho Square and the origins of a name and a family motto: are hunting links no more than myths?

How Saint Mary’s Church in Handsworth has links with the Industrial Revolution … and the Comberford family

Aston Hall, the stately home near Villa Park, is a fine example of a Jacobean prodigy house

Robert Jenrick has besmirched
Handsworth. And, despite his
childhood claims, he knows
little about Aston or Villa Park

Are we in danger of
ignoring the 14 signs
of the rise of fascism
in the US and Britain?

Soho Square and the origins
of a name and a family
motto: are hunting links
no more than myths?

How Saint Mary’s Church in
Handsworth has links with
the Industrial Revolution …
and the Comberford family

Aston Hall, the stately
home near Villa Park,
is a fine example of
a Jacobean prodigy house