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Category: Pubs
Specks On A Dusty Road – Part One
Of the many who indulge in recalling their reminiscences, there are two classes, those who inflict cold, bare stodgy dry facts upon a long-suffering public, and those who have the happy knack of carefully sifting out those incidents that make entreating copy – I have always believed I belong in the […]
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Lawyers Field – Deanery Row – Prospect Place – Fender Row
These are truly historic names, now long gone, that for me and for many others conjure up a picture of happy memories which most of us today visualise through rose-coloured glasses. But in reality if you had seen the living accommodation around Prospect Place in the years between the wars, […]
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A Fox Of A Different Colour
The Old Fox’s Lament Remember St Paul’s, On that old road to Penn. And those little shops that stood opposite; then. Now a long time gone; cause, they needed the ground. But that cunning Old Fox managed to stay around. Well they’ve trapped the Old Fox in his final disguise. […]
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Chapel 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 […]
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The Ghost Of Saint Mary’s Lingers On
A fresco; which now has unfortunately been lost to the public eye. Was once on the south side of the Chancel of St Peter’s Collegiate Church, representing ‘The Lost Piece of Money’ and it commemorated the building and the endowment of St Mary’s Church thus – “Give God the glory […]
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The Lost Churches of Wolverhampton
A learned man once said – “It is all too easy in the name of progress to destroy the best along with the worst, and lament afterwards.” This Church arch featured recently as a “Picture from the Past” in our local newspaper, the Express & Star. Apparently this Gothic arch […]
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The Elephant Never Forgets
Query Corner “Hello Billy, I found your email address on your blog – which I stumbled across by accident. I moved from Wolverhampton more than thirty years ago but often look at the City websites to keep up-to-date. For many years, I have been trying to find someone with knowledge […]
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A Man Of Wolverhampton
Who, in Wolverhampton over the age of 60, has not heard the name of Bert Adey, a sportsman and popular licensee of a once equally known William Butler’s house; the ‘Pear Tree’? Showing some early foresight At the end of the Great War , when making his name as a […]
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Sign Of The Times, The Writing’s On The Wall
They have re-designed the set, the Old players have left, the World I once lived in, is once more bereft. When this picture was taken in 1974, as well as the shadow cast by the sun, from above the new subway, a shadow of doom had already been […]
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Show Me A Picture And I’ll Tell You A Story
Now, it may be the closeness I had with my parents and grandparents as a child that gave me this fondness for looking back at my life in Wolverhampton (Woffledom) . For it was through their environment I.E. (the centre of town) and their active life there, I came to […]
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The Colonel Vernon – I Remember It Well
The Civic Centre today looms in the back ground above an under pass beneath the ring road while the University dominates the east side and the Molineux Stadium the west and the T sign in the foreground say’s it all. This is the new sanotized North Street all character now […]
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