Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]
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WHAT’S HAPPENED TO NORTH STREET? North Street. dominated by the Telephone exchange ,on one side and the Civic Centre on the other – is not really a street any more since the ring road came and cut it in half. Today in 2015, with Wadhams Hill gone, The Town Hall, Civic Hall […]
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It was said at the opening of The Civic Hall in 1938: Modern architects have rediscovered the old axiom of the Greeks, that “the greatest utility is the greatest beauty,” and Wolverhampton’s Civic hall supplies a practical illustration of its truth. “Where did it all go Wrong?” I can hear […]
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The illustrated talk I chose to do that day seemed appropriate for the occasion and the venue – The Civic Centre. Now with this talk I try to give my interpretation of how the area, now occupied by our present seat of government has changed in appearance over the past […]
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