“THE LAST PICTURE SHOW” One final look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871 – recalling (No.1) 1909.William Gough – Builders. (No 2) 1921, Hollingsworth – Bacon Curer’s / 1927. The Globe – Picture House / 1943. The Carlton Picture House / 1964. Bergs- Credit Drapers. (No.3) 1950’s Frank Glover- Motor Engineers. (No. […]
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A FEELING OF TRANQUILITY A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871 – recalling No.5 Jennings undertakers, No 6 St James Vicarage, No.7, St James’s Church, No.8 , The Shakespeare Inn and No.9 Horseley Fields Tavern. THEN & NOW Today’s picture of the […]
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“WHERE HAS ALL THE FLOUR GONE” Continuing with places of interest A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871 – throwing a little light on No.2, “The Union Mill””, No.3, Gas Yard, No.4, The Union Tap Inn”. THEN & NOW Many times in my childhood and […]
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MORE HORSELEY FIELDS NOSTALGIA A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871. Throwing a little light on – No.5, “The Star Vaults”, No.6, Mount Zion, Methodist New Connection, and No.7, Albion Wharf. No.7 on the map is Albion Wharf. Over which part of this Wharfage, James Bradshaw […]
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SOMETIMES THE PAST SIMPLY DISAPPEARS This late 1960’s panorama of the shops and businesses on the north side of Horseley fields, were wiped from the map to make way for the bus station and ring-road. On the far right of the group is Corn Hill. The main focus of of […]
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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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Introduction: On land leased to the council by The Duke of Cleveland in 1881, on the west side of town,which up to then had been the site of a former Racecourse a magnificent Public Park 50 acres in extent opened. it is now known as West Park. Because of […]
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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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How often do we hear the remark, Oh I wished I’d asked. I would have loved to have known a little about the history of my forebear’s. And after all what more interesting way is there to trace local town or boroughs history than through ones own relatives. Well over […]
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Of the many who indulge in recalling their reminiscences, there are two classes, those who inflict cold, bare stodgy dry facts upon a long-suffering public, and those who have the happy knack of carefully sifting out those incidents that make entreating copy – I have always believed I belong in the […]
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