On This Day – January, 6th 1970 This former “Smoke Belching Monster” was once part of the famed “Golden Arrow” service from London to Paris. The train was travelling through Chapel Ash, on its way to The Lakeside Railway Society Museum, at Carnforth Lancashire. It’s French crew left the giant in a lay-by at Kingswood, […]
On this day – January, 4th 1967 The Montego Club in Whitmore Reans was investigated after reports of drug peddling and soliciting for prostitution. The first multi-racial club in Whitmore Reans The building was the home to the St Andrews Boys School in Coleman Street Whitmore Reans. For a time, it became the premises for Barford […]
The Motor Car Act 1903 The Motor Car Act 0f 1903 came into force on 1 January 1904. This required all motor vehicles to enter an official vehicle register and to carry alphanumeric plates. The Act came to pass so the government could trace any vehicle in the event of an accident or contravention of the law. Vehicle […]
ONE ROAD TO PARADISE There was a time when my town of Wolverhampton belonged to the people and what bit of motorised traffic there was shared the roads and street with pedestrians in complete harmony, as seen here in our main shopping venue Dudley Street. This view during a busy Saturday looks toward Queen Square. […]
THE LONG JOURNEY HOME Now I’ve never been over fond of the eastern side of town, Heath Town and Wednesfield in particular, and perhaps the reason for this stems back from a tiresome day spent during the summer of 1944 of which I still recall to this day. At […]
“There used to be a playground” in the shadow of St Peter’s. As I said in part one; my long journey through life started above the “Londes” in a Victorian built terraced house in Nursery Street. In 1937 If you follow the line from the rooftop of James Beatties store in the centre of this […]
Towards the end of the war on my seventh birthday my grandfather gave me a book of short stories by an American author, O Henry. On the inside of the cover my Grandfather or someone else had written these words: And I have remarked that a true delineation of the smallest man and […]
PIPERS ROW again on TRACK? – THE GRAND old TRAM is coming BACK Chapter one Breaking News February 2016. We have got huge concerns about plans released today for the extension of the Midland Metro in Wolverhampton. The new £15 million line will run along Pipers Row and Railway Drive to link the St […]
The landscape of so many cities and towns throughout Britain has changed dramatically since the war especially the centres containing the streets with the various individual shops sitting side by side. Wolverhampton, for example, in the heart of the Midlands was never a classic picture postcard town. I suppose mainly through its industrial background, but […]
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A potted history of Bilston Steel Works. Gone today in 2015 But will never be Forgotten. Bilston Steel Works was situated at Spring Vale, Bilston. Between 1866 and 1883 six new blast furnaces were built at Springvale. The furnaces were hand-fed and the molten iron was run off into pig beds. […]
Local Bilstonians pass this building today with hardly a second glance as it has just been an integral part of the High Street scene throughout their life times.. The Wars of the Roses would seem to mark the period of this ancient house, formerly the home of the De Mollesleys. and built […]
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