WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 5, I was talking about Giffard House and the […]
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Billy’s Picture Book #5: The Town Is In Turmoil
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 4, I was talking about the Two Great Survivors, […]
Read moreBilly’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 3, I was talking about The Deanery, but if […]
Read moreBilly’s Picture Book #3: The Deanery The Impossible Dream
WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 2, I was talking about Bluecoat School, but if […]
Read more“From Bodyline to Boblake and Beyond”
Isn’t it funny where a good read of an old newspaper can get you? The date is Monday, January 23rd, 1933 and the headlines cry, “It’s just not cricket!” The main evening story in the Express and Star newspaper concerns the protests of not just cricket, but the entire Australian nation. […]
Read moreThe Fall Of Wolverhampton Hippodrome
Wolverhampton Hippodrome was formerly the old Empire Palace Theatre But what caused the fall… of the old Wolverhampton music hall? The tragic loss of this majestic Queen Square icon happened sixty-two years ago this week. The Wolverhampton Hippodrome framed through the arch of the Queen Arcade, shortly before […]
Read moreSpecks On A dusty Road – Part Twelve
“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. […]
Read moreSpecks On A Dusty Road Part – Eleven
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 […]
Read moreSpecks On A Dusty Road – Part ten
“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 […]
Read moreSpecks On A Dusty Road – Part nine
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 […]
Read moreSpecks On A Dusty Road – Part Eight
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 […]
Read moreSpecks On A Dusty Road – Part Seven
“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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