The highlight of the Grange collections is a group of plaster figures of Indian tradespeople collected by local antiquarian Titus Barham, probably in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. This group is numbered T176 and T177. Other items include a few modern pieces of costumes (shalwar kameez, sari), a Hindu domestic shrine, a tiffin, a plaster Air India ‘Maharajah’ advertising figure, a few items of jewellery, a couple of books, a couple of posters, a few audio tapes and a few boxed items (incense, food). There is also a colour postcard of the British Empire Exhibition Indian Pavilion (the British Empire Exhibition took place at Wembley in 1924 and 1925)

The Titus Barham figurines were part of a private museum that was inherited by the Borough of Wembley (one of Brent’s predecessors) in the 1950s. Many of the other items are the result of pro-active contemporary collecting by the museum.

The highlights of the collection are a ceramic statuette of a Rastafarian boy (illustrated above) and an ashtray from the Empire Windrush (formerly the German Hamburg Sud-Amerika Linie's Monte Rosa), the ship that is now associated with the beginning of large-scale West Indian immigration to Britain (though the ship was refitted in 1950, so the ashtray may postdate the famous voyage). There are a few items from the early twentieth century, notably a First World War chocolate box from Trinidad that was issued to British troops and a couple of medallions from the West Indies pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition. Other items are limited to a Jamaican souvenir dish, some Jamaican coffee, a mug from a fast food outlet, a black doll and a flyer for the Tricycle Theatre’s play The Colour of Justice (about the Stephen Lawrence inquiry). Most of these items are donations, but the more recent ones are the result of pro-active contemporary collecting by the museum

Brent Museum has nothing connected with Eastern Europe apart from the items below:

Plaque marking Borough of Willesden's gift of a Spitfire aircraft, which belonged to one of the predecessors to the London Borough of Brent and was transferred to the museum in 1976. Willesden purchased this aircraft in 1940. The Borough specified that the aircraft be flown by Poles and it was assigned to No. 302 'City of Poznañ’ squadron. The plaque was produced by the Ministry for Aircraft Production and dates from 1942. The aircraft, Spitfire VB AD257 'Borough of Willesden', was lost in the same year modern (1998) railway ticket from Katowice to Oœwiêcim (Auschwitz) brought back from Poland by a member of the museum staff London Islamic Association Charity 'Crisis in Kosovo' leaflet. Picked up by a member of the museum’s staff in a Halal butchers

There are a few items connected with the Canadian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, notably an OOO gauge or similar (i.e. very small) model of a Canadian National steam locomotive (on loan from the Wembley History Society)

Apart from a complete Irish dancing costume, the material in the museum is limited to a few small religious objects and a few postcards donated by local people

The museum has a collection of 52 items connected with the Brentini family, Ticinese (Italian-speaking) Swiss who had a confectionary shop and restaurant in High Holborn in the 1880s and then in the Edgware Road from 1898 or earlier. The collection includes photographs and documents relating to work, private life and wartime service. It was donated by Eric Louis Patrick Brentini

The best material consists of a couple of donations of objects, photographs and documents relating to Austrian-Jewish refugees from the Nazis. These are the Martha Berdach group (donated by Mark Cummins, a former mayor of Brent and a neighbour of Martha Berdach [later Mayerson]) and the Alice Schick (later Bacher) collection, donated by Michelle Gluck. Both collections are somewhat similar. Their great strength is photographs of people in pre-1938 Austro-Hungary and Austria, the Berdach group being stronger on the pre-1918 period and the Schick group being stronger on the inter-war period. The Berdach group also has photographs taken by a refugee just after arriving in Britain. The documentation is interesting too.

Other Jewish material is limited to packaging for Kosher food and religious objects, and a modern (1998) railway ticket from Katowice to Oœwiêcim (Auschwitz) brought back from Poland by a member of the museum staff