The Carl Chinn Archive is a collection of thousands of letters, thousands of photographs, hundreds of oral history interviews and a range of memorabilia and ephemera. It mostly relates to the day-to-day lives of working-class 'Brummies' and includes memories to do with the Bull Ring, most of the city's neighbourhoods, schooling, shops, work, personalities, ethnic minorities, housing, street life, the First and Second World wars, places, games, sayings and family life. These memories are encapsulated via letters by adults and schoolchildren, oral interviews, recordings of Carl's BBC WM local history show on Sundays, poems and drawings.

You can submit your memories as letters, poems, tapes or drawings to BirminghamLives by post to:

The BirminghamLives Project
The University of Birmingham
Hamilton Building
Hamilton Drive
Weoley Park Road
Selly Oak
Birmingham
B29 6QW

It is understood that any submissions to the archive are done so in the knowledge that contributions will be open to public scrutiny, free of copyright, and that selected materials may be digitised and published via the Internet as part of the online BirminghamLives teaching resource.

If you have any problems or queries regarding submissions or any other comments, then the curator can easily be contacted by e-mail at g.r.morgan@bham.ac.uk, or you can write to the above address.