“No man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity” – Samuel Johnson The year is 1854 and a cholera epidemic ravages the land, leading to demands for a clean water supply and proper sewage systems, especially in poor neighbourhoods like Carribee Island. But can you believe there was opposition here in […]
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The Grand Theatre the only surviving theatre in the Black Country today in 2013, designed by eminent architect Charles J. Phipps, and constructed by Wolverhampton builder Henry Gough in the splendid location of new Lichfield Street, in 1894. It is today considered by many as the finest theatre in […]
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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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SHAMROCK RECIPIENTS: Father William Rooney assisted by Altar-boy William Howe giving Shamrock to schoolchildren at St Patrick’s Church, Wolverhampton, this morning on the occasion of St Patrick’s Day 1949. The flag of St Patrick adorned the pulpit in St Patrick’s Church, Wolverhampton today as the large congregation attended High Mass […]
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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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