Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]
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Billy’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 […]
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Big Hearts and Sympathetic Traits
Wolverhampton People of the past had Big Hearts and Sympathetic Traits Charitable playing footballers were the subject of my last post so I thought I would continue with this theme a little longer. From my vast Library it is so easy for me to find pictures and stories regarding the […]
Read moreHair Care, 1940s Style as I recall it.
THE BARBERS! A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father) took a boy to be almost scalped, and to indulge himself in a masochistic act of being singed across the back of the head with a flaming taper. This practice went on at least […]
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