A Pre-War Plan – That with hindsight, could have gone better. Mayor wants market- place Air-raid shelter for Wolverhampton! Advocates big Car Park Underground A scheme for a large subterranean car park to be constructed underneath the marketplace, which would also serve the dual purpose of being an air-raid […]
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Friday We Had Fish
Although I have never been a keen angler, throughout my life I have always had a love for fish. It may stem from the fact that my grandfather and my father were at some time connected with the trade. To this day there is nothing I find more interesting that […]
Read moreSomething Fishy
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 […]
Read moreA Change Of Scenery Around The Deanery
The illustrated talk I chose to do that day seemed appropriate for the occasion and the venue – The Civic Centre. Now with this talk I try to give my interpretation of how the area, now occupied by our present seat of government has changed in appearance over the past […]
Read moreChapel Ash Today, Looks Sad And Tired
But once upon a time it was twice in-spired! Advert – “NOW 1879-80 – Charles Clark coach and carriage builder Chapel Ash.” Chapel Ash was well established on this main arterial route, through Wolverhampton, as a fine residential and commercial centre, when the above Advert appeared in ‘Stevens Directory’, which […]
Read moreThe Markets
The original market place as you probably know was in High Green, which is now Queen Square; and was long a nuisance to the inhabitants and a great trial to the health of the Butchers, green-grocers etc, who possessed the stalls. So in 1848, the newly elected Town Council agreed […]
Read moreWholesale Destruction
After leaving school in 1952 I found employment with H.Goodhall Ltd, in the Wholesale Market in Wolverhampton as a groundsman and porter. I would say the first three years working here in the market (before a break for National Service) were the best three years of my working life. The […]
Read moreThe Boys Of Saint Peters School
These are school rooms belonging to the Collegiate Church, erected in Craddocks Walk, (later St Peters Walk) which led from the Churchyard, and ran down in between – at this time in the picture – the Retail Market Hall and the open patch and ended in North Street. The Schools […]
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