At the Eleventh hour, of the Eleventh Month of 1977. I stood for the last time with my adopted father and great friend, William Oscar Williams at the Cenotaph in Wombourne. Born on the 14th of October 1893, he survived five years as a dispatch rider in the great war […]
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The landscape of so many cities and towns throughout Britain has changed dramatically since the war especially the centres containing the streets with the various individual shops sitting side by side. Wolverhampton, for example, in the heart of the Midlands was never a classic picture postcard town. I suppose mainly […]
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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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“Howes Life” with the Lions When my Aunt featured in the Lions Den at Bostock & Wombwells, Menagerie, in 1930 It was to be the last time this popular attraction would visit our town. This lively sketch of the old Market Place, dated 1793, by artist Thomas Rowlandson, […]
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WHAT’S HAPPENED TO NORTH STREET? North Street. dominated by the Telephone exchange ,on one side and the Civic Centre on the other – is not really a street any more since the ring road came and cut it in half. Today in 2015, with Wadhams Hill gone, The Town Hall, Civic Hall […]
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VICTORIA STREET Royal Today in Name Only It has been said many times Heritage is not just something on display in museums or town archives. Here again in Wolverhampton on most streets that that surround us in our everyday lives, you will probably find a building or business to remind us of […]
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Memories last longer than Dreams- Lets share them! Here 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 on is a reminder of something else that was there in the past. The hoardings […]
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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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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 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 on […]
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AND EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY The Joy of reading came to me in North Street Anyone who in the 1950’s, who made the trip to the Molineux grounds, or may have taken a trolley bus ride too and from Fordhouses, or the petrol bus to Brewood,or […]
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When market trading in fruit and vegetables was in its prime. Looking to the west from the terrace of St Peter’s Church with the greenery of the West Park in the background, we see in the foreground in all its olde world splendour, the old market patch, Wolverhampton pictured in the […]
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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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