Colin Whitehouse visited the site recently and left the following enquiry in a comment on Stafford Street was my Playground. Colin asks “Did I remember The Dan O’Connell, Limerick, and the Warwick Public Houses?” Well I thought it would be simpler to answer his querie this way with a little […]
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He was a shining light for old Wufflers in the dark days just after the war and Wolverhampton’s legacy was certainly enriched by Express and Star artist Arthur Arrowsmith for it was he who gave us priceless works of art for the price of a three halfpenny newspaper. And it […]
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I received an email message earlier this week from David; an Old Wulfrunian born close to Kingsland Road, off Leicester Square. David noticed I had been “idle on parade,” regarding the website of late and sent me this message from Australia. “Hello Billy, Do hope this email finds you well. […]
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Fred Thomas was the youngest son of William and Francis Thomas who had started their wholesale fish merchants business in Horseley fields in the latter part of the 1800s. Fred, the youngest son of William and Frances Thomas is pictured in the lounge of his bungalow in Ounsdale Road, Wombourne […]
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An account of a 19th century spine chilling encounter Gibbet Lane is no place for the faint of heart as the autumnal gloaming gradually obscures the last vestige of daylight and the dismal cloak of night is cast over the leafy track, a well-trodden pathway between Kinver and Stourbridge during […]
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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 […]
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I have a nice little picture here from the past at a time when top class footballer’s such as these, while enjoying the admiration of their working class neighbours, would have been embarrased by the Hollywood hype and celebrity status heaped on the players of today. So how do I […]
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A couple of weeks ago I placed this photo in the Express and Star for two reasons; one to ask for more information on it, and two to hopefully introduce readers to my website. I achieved excellent results from both aims. In one week I received 57 all-correct replies; including […]
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These are truly historic names, now long gone, that for me and for many others conjure up a picture of happy memories which most of us today visualise through rose-coloured glasses. But in reality if you had seen the living accommodation around Prospect Place in the years between the wars, […]
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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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Like every other town and city, over the years old Wolverhampton has had its share of unusual folk. In the 80’s we had Dave the radio carrying cowboy, who handed over to Ezra the Dudley Street Evangelist. The picture below shows a great Wolverhampton character of yesteryear. Miss Gibson, had […]
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The Old Fox’s Lament Remember St Paul’s, On that old road to Penn. And those little shops that stood opposite; then. Now a long time gone; cause, they needed the ground. But that cunning Old Fox managed to stay around. Well they’ve trapped the Old Fox in his final disguise. […]
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