Who, in Wolverhampton over the age of 60, has not heard the name of Bert Adey, a sportsman and popular licensee of a once equally known William Butler’s house; the ‘Pear Tree’? Showing some early foresight At the end of the Great War , when making his name as a […]
Read moreTag: Edward “Ted” Adey
Show 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 more