The traditional rhyme goes “Remember, remember the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot”. Over four hundred years ago a man called Guy Fawkes and a group of co-conspirators hatched a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament. “The Gunpowder Plot”, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason […]
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Wolverhampton’s “Man on the ‘Oss” is 150 years old this year! Arrowsmith’s cartoon shows the captured Crimean Cannon, soon to be replaced with the statue of the Prince Consort which remains there today in 2015. After the death of Albert, the Prince Consort, in 1861 steps were taken in […]
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“Howes Life” with the Lions When my Aunt featured in the Lions Den at Bostock & Wombwells, Menagerie, in 1930 It was to be the last time this popular attraction would visit our town. This lively sketch of the old Market Place, dated 1793, by artist Thomas Rowlandson, […]
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The terrible treatment of the weaker sex across the World at the moment, which I abhor, is brought to us graphically every day through the news and media. Regarding this, the lines and title in this my latest post may seem a bit derogatory. I can assure you this is […]
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“The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up […]
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The original market place as you probably know was in High Green, which is now Queen Square; and was long a nuisance to the inhabitants and a great trial to the health of the Butchers, green-grocers etc, who possessed the stalls. So in 1848, the newly elected Town Council agreed […]
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