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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This brief history of a little fruit shop in Horseley Fields was sent to me in 2015, from Malcolm Smith. A proud Wulfrunian of 70 years standing (as he put it), now exiled in Cornwall. And it came about when Malcolm who had signed up to Lost Wolverhampton sent this […]
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OUR PAST IS ALL AROUND US. It has been said many times Heritage is not just something on display in museums or town archives. Here again 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 […]
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A FEELING OF TRANQUILITY A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871 – recalling No.5 Jennings undertakers, No 6 St James Vicarage, No.7, St James’s Church, No.8 , The Shakespeare Inn and No.9 Horseley Fields Tavern. THEN & NOW Today’s picture of the […]
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“WHERE HAS ALL THE FLOUR GONE” Continuing with places of interest A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871 – throwing a little light on No.2, “The Union Mill””, No.3, Gas Yard, No.4, The Union Tap Inn”. THEN & NOW Many times in my childhood and […]
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MORE HORSELEY FIELDS NOSTALGIA A further look at Steen & Blackets Map of 1871. Throwing a little light on – No.5, “The Star Vaults”, No.6, Mount Zion, Methodist New Connection, and No.7, Albion Wharf. No.7 on the map is Albion Wharf. Over which part of this Wharfage, James Bradshaw […]
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“HORSELEY FIELDS ” – a bagful of Nostalgia. Today as I wait for my bus at Pipers Row, Bus Station, I gaze through the glass windows across the ring-road at St Davids Court and the “Novotel”, and my thoughts instantly return to a time when life around there was so different. My mind conjures up lost […]
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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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Of the many who indulge in recalling their reminiscences, there are two classes, those who inflict cold, bare stodgy dry facts upon a long-suffering public, and those who have the happy knack of carefully sifting out those incidents that make entreating copy – I have always believed I belong in the […]
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With all the rain we have experienced this year you can understand some local Wolverhampton people are talking about some sort of safeguard for the future. A Lifeboat perhaps? But as some may already know this is not the first time a Lifeboat was a topic in our town. The […]
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Picture Postcards Record Past Heroes of the Beautiful Game. A small feature in the Express and Star on Saturday the eleventh of February 2012, written by Mark Andrews, featured a collection of postcards regarding the “Crooked House’ Pub in Himley at the turn of the century. Mark said, rightfully so, […]
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Fred Thomas was the youngest son of William and Francis Thomas who had started their wholesale fish merchants business in Horseley fields in the latter part of the 1800s. Fred, the youngest son of William and Frances Thomas is pictured in the lounge of his bungalow in Ounsdale Road, Wombourne […]
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