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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Although I have never been a keen angler, throughout my life I have always had a love for fish. It may stem from the fact that my grandfather and my father were at some time connected with the trade. To this day there is nothing I find more interesting that […]
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In the early 1950’s, my friend John Neave started as a student printer at the Wolverhampton School of Art; situated then, in the basement of the Art Gallery, under the supervision of John Mills a Liverpudlian – a Letter press teacher. John holds fond memories of a fellow teacher at the […]
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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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Ask any old Wuffler today, if he or she has heard of the name Villiers. The majority will yes, and mention the once great engineering works in the street that bears the same name in Blakenhall. Not all though a few will associate the Villers mark on our town with […]
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I have many stories recounting the life and times of the many Victorian family owned emporiums scattered across our town over the years. This story is just one of them. Most Wulfrunians today will recognise No 83 Darlington the Pertemps Recruitment Centre building on the corner of Red Lion Street. […]
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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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I first aquired this photo some 20yrs ago I nicknamed it “Fidler on the Roof” but the Fidler in question here and the gentleman this story is about was not the Russian Jew played by “Topol”. in the musical of that name. It was F.W. Fidler & Son gilders and […]
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We all have our memories good and bad, the best of our memories are usually connected with our childhood when we longed to be grown up, – and paid no attention to grownups who told us to enjoy our youth – as these were the best years of our […]
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In my youth it was on every wall. Two evocative photos of the Victorian terraced block of three houses at the top of Parkfield Road on the Coseley U.D.C. side. The outside two of which had been over the years adapted as small retail shops. Picture No. […]
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