PIPERS ROW again on TRACK? – THE GRAND old TRAM is coming BACK Chapter one Breaking News February 2016. We have got huge concerns about plans released today for the extension of the Midland Metro in Wolverhampton. The new £15 million line will run along Pipers Row and Railway […]
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THEN and almost NOW
Then In 1926, before the tram tracks were removed from Pipers Row, this would have been the view across Pipers Row awaiting the the patrons emerging from the “Barley Mow”. It shows the corner of Castle Street taken up by the Hardware Merchants Langley Shaw. Whose perimeter walls are […]
Read moreSteelhouse Lane Is Today In Pain
We start in the mid 1960’s. The northern end of Steelhouse Lane looking from Gordon Street on the left across to Jenner Street on the right and through to the Cleveland Road / Bilston Road island. At that time this 200 yard stretch of rented late Victorian Villa properties similar […]
Read moreOnce a Flagship now a Wreck
Will this be a never ending story, or another fairy tale of our times? A Transplant is urgently needed ! For this right “Royal” mess. I can imagine how sad old Wufflers feel as they travel as I do each day past the old Royal hospital and gaze at the […]
Read moreOld Carbury (Carribee Street)
Colin Whitehouse visited the site recently and left the following enquiry in a comment on Stafford Street was my Playground. Colin asks “Did I remember The Dan O’Connell, Limerick, and the Warwick Public Houses?” Well I thought it would be simpler to answer his querie this way with a little […]
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