Covid Vaccination – I
Pear Tree Boy.
Jimmy Methven’s House – Found.
Jimmy Methven’s old house on Rosamond’s Ride has been found 
Diabetes.
Jack Kirby – Newhall United.
Thank You to Newhall United F.C who kindly sent me their match day programme in the post. Which includes my Craft Paper Cutting and Tribute Poem to the Legendary Jack Kirby of Derby County F.C. #NewhallUnited#FolkestoneTown
Paper Cutting
To view more examples of my work check me out on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/khalsir/
Derby Ram Trail.
“Derby Museums are delighted to share with you ‘The Derby Ram’
– a collaborative animated poem based on lantern slides found in our collection, in celebration of BBC Arts#MuseumPassion– and to get you excited for the Derby Ram Trail.
The story features the Derby Ram, which according to legend was ten yards high with enormous horns and a huge flowing fleece, and tells how people came from all over to see it. We are excited that people will once again flock to Derby to enjoy the free family art trail from 27 May to 22 August 2021.
We hope you enjoy the boastful nature of the piece and we would like to thank all of the wonderful collaborators who took time out of lockdown to film themselves delivering this piece and Mediabox Productions for editing and animating this piece.
Sign up to receive trail updates at www.derbyramtrail.org“
National Poetry Day 2020.
The Search for Dan Allsop at Nottingham Road Cemetery.
The Search for Dan Allsop of Nottingham Forest F.C and Derby ‘County’ Baseball Club.
Football & Baseball Legend.
Dennis Allsop’s Pear Tree Teapot.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional
Priyanka Mehta
Every year 10th September is marked as the world suicide prevention day to raise awareness about the significance of mental health and well-being. The need to talk about depression and its adverse effects especially within the Asian community is more pronounced than ever this year in the wake of the coronavirus induced lockdown and loss.
‘Football should be an extended family’: the fans turning the tide on racism
Myself and Raman representing the Punjabi Rams.
#WorldSuicidePreventionDay
Hughie Gallacher House Breakthrough !
Hughie Gallacher Breakthrough.
The house number has been found. Just waiting for some support confirmation.
Projecting Grief.
Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa is an author and poet. He was a science teacher when his Dad died by suicide in 2006. His first book ‘My Father and the Lost Legend of Pear Tree’ was published in 2016.
Brook Street Pigeon.
Marion Adnams.
Nottingham Road Cemetery – Calladine.
Who’s Watching !
I’ve recently started collecting Cigarette Cards.
Check out what came in the post today !
Award Winning Moustache 〰️
The Hollow.
A trip through ‘The Hollow’ in Littleover, Derby.
Derbyshire Artists.
The Normanton Brick Mystery.
So it seems this Brick of mine may not have been made in Derby but Normanton, Yorkshire. Although I collected it from the Normanton, Pear Tree neighbourhood of Derby. Not far from the old Normanton Barracks that was demolished in the early 1980s.
This Brick itself was collected from opposite the old Brick Yard in Sinfin and then taken home to Pear Tree. Yesterday it was found and dug up from a garden path with many other bricks like it.
Was it originally part of the Barracks? It may still have been? But to be honest even it wasn’t. It still says Normanton on it. And it was found in Normanton, Derby.
I’m happy with that.
I’m a Normanton Man 🙂
The Search for Hughie Gallacher – Update.
I returned to Eastcroft Avenue to knock on some doors again today. In the process I met this lovely man, Philip Semple who took me on a tour of the area to visit his elderly relation.
We are now going to work together to try and find Hughie’s old house.
He also filled me in on eX Rams players who lived nearby.
Charlie George lived at New Mount Close. Peter Shilton used to live at Blagreaves Hall, the old home of the legendary Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster #DDay
The Search for Hughie Gallacher in Derby.
A little breakthrough…. as I was reading the occupation of the father you will have noticed me stumble on a word.
Having conversed with Peter Seddon it seems that word was the name of the house.
ARDLUI
Searching for Methven and Field.
Searching for Jimmy Methven on Rosamonds Ride, Littleover, Derby.
Searching for Jimmy Methven at St Chads Road, Derby.
In relation to Zofija Kaczan, she was actually attacked further up the road and tragically died in hospital a few days later.
Ernest Walter Hives, 1st Baron Hives CH MBE
(21 April 1886 – 24 April 1965), was the one-time head of the Rolls-Royce Aero Engine division and chairman of Rolls-Royce Ltd.
Hives was born in Reading, Berkshire. During the Second World War he was closely involved with the design of the Merlin engine as well as numerous later Rolls-Royce jet engines. He began his working life in a local garage. However, in 1903 he got a job working at C.S. Rolls‘ car company, after fixing Rolls’ car.
Searching for Edgar Field on Fairfield Road, Derby.
“In May 2008, a photograph of the 1876 England team was discovered in the archives of the Derby City Council Local Studies Library by Peter Seddon. Field had sent the photograph to the Derbyshire Football Express, and the picture was used in an article published on the 50th anniversary of the match. This is believed to be the earliest known picture of an England football team”
St Peter’s Church, Littleover.
A visit to St Peter’s Church to see Freda Bedi’s father’s name on the War Memorial as well as to locate the grave of Vida Winifred Steer-Webster.
The grave of Vida Winifred Steer-Webster. The wife of Colonel Vassal Charles Steer-Webster OBE. A D-Day Legend. #BlagreavesHall
Charles is located/buried at Markeaton Crematorium.
Arthur Wharton Statue.
A trip to St George’s Park home of the England National Football Team to meet the legendary Arthur Wharton.
William Morley Sr. & Jr.
A visit to Uttoxeter New Road Cemetery, Derby to locate the grave of William Morley Sr., one of the original founders of Derby County F.C.
Junction Street
For more information about the early history of Derby County F.C refer to this book, “The Men Who Made the Rams” by Peter Seddon.
The Search for Archibald Lee ‘Archie’ Goodall.
Earlier today I went on a search for the legendary Irish footballer, Archibald Lee ‘Archie’ Goodall.
The first location I visited was his old family home on 29 Wolfa Street, Derby.
The second location I visited was Nottingham Road Cemetery.
John Goodall’s Gravestone in Watford.
Black Jack.
Steve Bloomer’s Grave – Nottingham Road Cemetery.
A visit to Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby to locate the grave of Steve Bloomer.
Steve Bloomer’s Grave
Guided Tour of Location
The last time I was at Bloomer’s grave 12 years ago I’m sure I noticed the grave of his Father, Mother & Brother close by.
I did not notice it around today? That’s why I was wondering if Bloomer’s grave had been moved and why I found it so difficult to locate this time?
Heavy J Studios.
Negro League Baseball.
Thank You.
Baseball.
A Letter from America 😲
What a lovely gift ☺️
When Raman was in Derby Hospital 🇬🇧 for an appendix operation. Tony Shrek 🇺🇸 asked if I had a favourite Baseball player 👉🏽 Jim Rice (Boston Red Sox) ⛑
Tony sent Raman 2 @Topps @MLB Baseball Cards from his personal collection ❤️⚾
A Jim Rice Card and a Steven Matz Card (Artwork by Blake Jamieson).
Hughie Gallacher.
This is Hughie Gallacher.
Tony Hancock.
This is Tony Hancock.
Alan Turing.
This is Alan Turing
.
Home Away From Homeland – Racism.
“This is all about racists and anti-racists – you’re either in one camp or the other”
Author and poet Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa – who has faced racism throughout his life – discusses the Black Lives Matter movement.
He also shares one of his recent poems at the start of the video.
#khalcast 3
The Derby Chat Show – Mo Suleman
I appeared on Radio Derby Sound earlier this week.
You can hear about it all in the link below.
“Hear Kal’s moving story of coping with the death of his father by suicide and how it led to his interest in History. Plus awesome music from the 80s and 90s”
#khalscast 2
Amar Singh Virdi – Video Message to Raman.
Derbyshire Life Magazine – July 2020
#khalcast 1
My First Twitter Live #khalcast 1
Pear Tree Ram – Collection.
Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa recites from his Pear Tree Ram – Collection. As well as discussing the current Black Lives Matter movement and racism he has himself experienced.
University of Leicester – Alumnus
Paki.
My Poem ‘Paki’ from the Pear Tree Rambler – Collection was featured in the Derby Telegraph today. This video explains why I wrote it.
Derby man shares personal life experiences of racism growing up and living in Normanton.
He talks about the racism he faced growing up in Derby.
16 JUN 2020
A Derby school worker has revealed how he grew up having to cope with racism.
Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa, a science technician at Littleover Community School, says he was pilloried for having a traditional Sikh “top knot” hairstyle – but then when he cut it off, says he felt he lost his sense of identity.
He has also spoken about living in Normanton and how some “blinkered” people thought because of that, he would be associated with crime.
Kalwinder says writing about his experiences have helped him cope – and he has penned a stinging rebuke to the racists and bullies in the shape of a poem called “Paki”.
Kalwinder speaks about various experiences including racism, growing up in Normanton, his heroes and coping with the death of his father and feels the lockdown has helped him to engage with more people and can help others to cope with any of the same experiences.
“Paki”
Man with beard and brown skin.
“Mr Khan”, they laugh and grin.
Silly little fools without a clue.
Laughing at me is laughing at you.
Show some respect an observe our faces.
We’re all pakis to ignorant racists
The 40-year-old said: “My poetry allows me to identify topics that are relevant and I feel a lot of my listeners can relate to them.
“I spent 28 years of my life living in Normanton, and the stigma that is attached to living in the area is something I have experienced first hand.
“I experienced racism from a young age, I was called names and because I wore a top knot due to my religion, people would often call me a girl and even though it was a symbol of my faith, I had a lot of resentment to my culture.
“I then decided to cut my hair when I was 15 and lost a sense of my identity, I tried to fit in but people would not identify me as being a Sikh and would be called other horrible names.
“Growing up, racism has evolved, there have been instances where I have gone for job interviews or told people which area I live in and they instantly assume I am bad or I’m involved in criminal activity.
“This is wrong and I know so many others like me have experienced this, I want people to talk and share their problems so we can help and encourage positivity and help people steer away from mental health issues.
“During lockdown, I have been doing Facebook Lives and they are going really well, I talk about identity, religion and history and connect it back to my home city of Derby.
“I am proud of where I come from and my poetry reflects that, especially with what is currently happening in the world with the Black Lives Matter protests, I am happy people are speaking up and identifying what’s happening in the world.”
