Business Archives - Lost Wolverhampton

Artist’s illustration of the new Clarkson’s Department Store on Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, showing the modern 1960s design of the building

The Clockmaker of Snow Hill: The Story of Hewitt Clarkson, Wolverhampton’s Timekeeper

Posted on January 30, 2026 by Billy

From Billy Howe’s Archives – edited and presented by Daniel Howe Here We Are on Old Snow Hill Here we are again on old Snow Hill, and it’s good to see that someone, somewhere, had the foresight to save these beautiful old buildings instead of knocking the lot down, as […]

Fidlers On The Roof

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Billy

I first aquired this photo some 20yrs ago I nicknamed it “Fidler on the Roof” but the Fidler in question here and the gentleman this story is about was not the Russian Jew played by “Topol”. in the musical of that name. It was F.W. Fidler & Son gilders and […]