THE LONG JOURNEY HOME Now I’ve never been over fond of the eastern side of town, Heath Town and Wednesfield in particular, and perhaps the reason for this stems back from a tiresome day spent during the summer of 1944 of which I still recall to this […]
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Specks On A Dusty Road – Part Six
Billposters were a feature in Wolverhampton in my youth, they fronted almost any bits of waste ground, adorned many gable ends and they appeared in the most unlikely places. This one in particular was in St Georges Parade which was incidentally the address of The Wolverhampton Billposting Company. Now […]
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Introduction: On land leased to the council by The Duke of Cleveland in 1881, on the west side of town,which up to then had been the site of a former Racecourse a magnificent Public Park 50 acres in extent opened. it is now known as West Park. Because of […]
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