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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Have I heard this before? Manchester City have taken over from Chelsea and Man Utd, and are now certainly being a ‘pain in the backside’ to the poorer clubs in the Premiership. I feel this inequality will cause some clubs to overspend and possibly we could well see a number […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Hello to everyone who enjoys reading my Blog, again I would like to say a big thank you, as it’s always fun to get an email or a comment on something I have posted. I have had a few more comments left on the posts recently and I hope this […]
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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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Now here in the 21st Century, I still feel close to St Peters. My forebears had already lived close by St Peters Church for over a century. When my parents married and settled in Nursery Street, in 1936; I was born there the following year. From our house No. 11, […]
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A thank you in verse for lifting the curse. There came a time my drink ran dry, and those who once cared passed me by. And all around me was swept away, never to see another day. I felt certain this would happen to me, and the same sorry end […]
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The North Street I knew is still around, you find it now through a hole in the ground. Remember old Wadhams Hill was here. Now today no Wadhams Hill, no Milner Hall, and no shops that reached up to the Chequer Ball. But what about these shops that made way […]
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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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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 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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