“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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Any idea were this large house stands? Approaching it from Lea Road in summer you would have no inkling of its presence, for huge beech trees and chestnuts obscure with their foliage its Strawberry Hill Gothic windows which from the interior look out onto a snowfall of blossom and curving […]
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It was a strange location, for our first station. Does anyone recall Old Heath town before the upheaval of the 1950’s its industrial heritage still intact, with its many Victorian terraces and courts, and the three Churches offering solace to the working class folk that lived there. Wednesfield Heath blossomed […]
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Lea Road Junction 1910. On the left at the side of the Pillar Box was the gates of the large house known as Hillside. fast forward a century and the site is now occupied by a drive – through, McDonald’s. A little while ago I was asked how Lea Road […]
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Tettenhall boasts a history second to none in Wolverhampton. A saxon settlement , the battle with the Vikings, the Wrottersleys, and later Telfords cutting through the rock. Many pictures exist of Tettenhall and the lower green which was once much bigger than it is today. Who as a child hasn’t […]
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The old cattle market for which Wolverhampton at one time was famous, was held from 1849 on a site adjoining the existing abattoir site in Cleveland Road. The market was held weekly for the sale of Horses and cattle, and in the earlier years of its existence was reputed to […]
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It is safe to say the the name “Molyneux” is famous in every part of the World of Sport. It is surely synonymous with “soccer” at its best whatever the current fortunes of the Wolverhampton Wanderer’s side. But how many followers of the leather ball are aware that Molyneneux was […]
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