We hear today many convincing stories regarding the centre of town being plagued by rats in the 1940’s and 50’s. Now, as I have mentioned often before, I was born close to St Peter’s Church which seemed to be the centre of all activities during my childhood. To hear a tale […]
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ONE ROAD TO PARADISE There was a time when my town of Wolverhampton belonged to the people and what bit of motorised traffic there was shared the roads and street with pedestrians in complete harmony, as seen here in our main shopping venue Dudley Street. This view during a […]
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How often do we hear the remark, Oh I wished I’d asked. I would have loved to have known a little about the history of my forebear’s. And after all what more interesting way is there to trace local town or boroughs history than through ones own relatives. Well over […]
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A forward looking plan was submitted of which it was said; this plan when adopted in its final form will enable future developments to take place in a systematic and orderley manner. Each step will make its contribution to the shape of things to come Only in this way can […]
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Like every other town and city, over the years old Wolverhampton has had its share of unusual folk. In the 80’s we had Dave the radio carrying cowboy, who handed over to Ezra the Dudley Street Evangelist. The picture below shows a great Wolverhampton character of yesteryear. Miss Gibson, had […]
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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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