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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“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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Billposters were a feature in Wolverhampton in my youth, they fronted almost any bits of waste ground, adorned many gable ends and they appeared in the most unlikely places. This one in particular was in St Georges Parade which was incidentally the address of The Wolverhampton Billposting Company. Now […]
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Continuing with Worralls and introducing the Stevens – it is now 1894 Introduction – In 1894 John Henry Stevens had travelled from his home In Tipton Staffordshire, to work in Wolverhampton, as there were still many jobs to be found on the numerous canal wharves around Horseley fields and he […]
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My Mothers family were the Worrall’s and the Stevens. I want to share a few episodes of their life and times with you , see as they saw, and bear with them in their sorrows and happiness in Horseley Fields. Three years after the battle of Waterloo my forebears were building […]
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Although housing was well established on the east side, it was mostly nurseries and gardens at the lower half of North Street.Now notice the line of the wall marked as “Jack’s spot” on this map, which was seen in 1870 as a ten foot wall that backed the lower yard […]
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