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 […]
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Kathy Thomas guides one of her fathers prized ponies back down Lichfield Street to the “Barley Mow” in the 1930’s. Now one of the main aims of “Lost Wolverhampton” is to research and record the social history of the town. and when we study the streets and yards, and […]
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OUR PAST IS ALL AROUND US. It has been said many times Heritage is not just something on display in museums or town archives. Here again in Wolverhampton everything that surrounds us in our everyday lives, every street, supermarket, football ground, university and park, even the land your house is built […]
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“HORSELEY FIELDS ” – a bagful of Nostalgia. Today as I wait for my bus at Pipers Row, Bus Station, I gaze through the glass windows across the ring-road at St Davids Court and the “Novotel”, and my thoughts instantly return to a time when life around there was so different. My mind conjures up lost […]
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Then In 1926, before the tram tracks were removed from Pipers Row, this would have been the view across Pipers Row awaiting the the patrons emerging from the “Barley Mow”. It shows the corner of Castle Street taken up by the Hardware Merchants Langley Shaw. Whose perimeter walls are […]
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The German High Command called it, “Operation Cerberus”, it passed into history as “the Channel Dash” or the “Channel Fiasco” depending on how you see it. At a meeting at Rastenburg, Hitler pressed for the pocket battleships Scharnhorst, Gneisnau, and Prinz Eugen, to be withdrawn from Brest, were they had […]
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