A programme for the 1993 year of the rooster celebrations. Text at the top of the page is - To Celebrate The Year of the Rooster - Free Admission - All Welcome. Beneath this, an illustration of a rooster on the right of the programme. Rooster is standing on a clump of foliage and bark. To the left, Chinese text. Event details and times at the bottom of the programme.

Happy #YearOfTheHorse to all. If you’re in Birmingham this weekend, why not join the celebrations: www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/chi... Here’s a programme from 1993. Ref - Ephemera/Festivals/23 #LibraryofBham #brumhippodrome #chinesebham

A photograph of men assembled in a group, chiefly consisting of three lines - the figures in the front row are all seated and wearing traditional Chinese silk dress. The figures around them are wearing Victorian frockcoats and top hats. Behind the group are two brick buildings

#BirminghamHistory Trade connections between China and the UK have existed for many years. Here’s the visit of Duke Tsai Tse and members of the Chinese Special Commission to the Metropolitan Railway Carriage Works on 14 May 1906. Ref: WK/S2/14 #LibraryofBham #chinesebham