“There was no room at the Inn, for the Named and Shamed.” I have classified this story as unfit for under 18’s and anyone with a weak constitution as it contains scenes of Graphic Horror. Binge drinking and anti-social behaviour never seem to be out of the news, with politicians […]
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THE FUTURE HIDES THE PAST
Memories last longer than Dreams- Lets share them! Here in Wolverhampton everything that surrounds us in our everyday lives, every street, supermarket, football ground, university and park, even the land your house is built on is a reminder of something else that was there in the past. The hoardings […]
Read moreShow Me A Picture And I’ll Tell You A Story
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 […]
Read moreThe Colonel Vernon – I Remember It Well
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 […]
Read moreThe Four Hovels
No. 26 Nursery Street was the house my Grandparents moved to; the end house in the street overlooking an area of the Londes which had been turned into waste ground at the start of the demolition of North Street in the late 1950’s. But for at least 100 years prior […]
Read moreOur Tree Still Grows In North Street
Although housing was well established on the east side, it was mostly nurseries and gardens at the lower half of North Street.Now notice the line of the wall marked as “Jack’s spot” on this map, which was seen in 1870 as a ten foot wall that backed the lower yard […]
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