The War Memorial Many people are surprised when I tell them I often enjoy spending time walking through graveyards. Why? Well, names on graves have held a fascination for me ever since as a lad of seven, I stood with my family amongst the many ancient tombstones in Merridale Cemetery […]
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Billy’s Picture Book #6: The Old House On The Hill
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 5, I was talking about Giffard House and the […]
Read moreBilly’s Picture Book #5: The Town Is In Turmoil
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 4, I was talking about the Two Great Survivors, […]
Read moreThe Last Walk
At the Eleventh hour, of the Eleventh Month of 1977. I stood for the last time with my adopted father and great friend, William Oscar Williams at the Cenotaph in Wombourne. Born on the 14th of October 1893, he survived five years as a dispatch rider in the great war […]
Read moreBONFIRE NIGHT – Brought to mind in Wolverhampton
The traditional rhyme goes “Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot”. Over four hundred years ago a man called Guy Fawkes and a group of co-conspirators hatched a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. “The Gunpowder Plot”, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason […]
Read moreA Strange Tale in Wolverhampton’s Town Hall Pub
Well, as it is approaching Halloween I wondered if this little story, which first came to light in Wolverhampton’s town hall pub, would be of interest to our members. It was told to me as a youngster, by a friend of my fathers who worked atthat time in the Retail […]
Read moreBilly’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 3, I was talking about The Deanery, but if […]
Read moreWednesfield High Street as it was!
Wednesfield High Street used to fall under the Wednesfield Urban District Council. Wednesfield and Heath Town former Urban District Councils from 1894, were eventually swallowed up by Wolverhampton. Heath Town was absorbed in 1927, whereas Wednesfield remained entirely independent and physically separate until the early 1950’ when Wolverhampton’s overspill housing […]
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