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post 171 - Billy's Picture Book 8 - A New Horizon

Billy’s Picture Book #8: A New Horizon

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Billy

Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]

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The Two Great Survivors Molineux House & Giffard House, Wolverhampton

Billy’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Billy

WOLVERHAMPTON A TALE OF TWO CITIES My pictures and stories I hope will illustrate the many changes which have taken place in Wolverhampton at various times particularly in relation to the street scene and general landscape. If you recall in part 3, I was talking about The Deanery, but if […]

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Post 129 - Howe's Life Part Two

“HOWE’S LIFE” -Part Two MEMORIES OF A 40’s CHILD

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Billy
“There used to be a playground” in the shadow of St Peter’s. As I said in part one; my long journey through life started above the “Londes” in a Victorian built terraced house in Nursery Street. In 1937 If you follow the line from the rooftop of James Beatties store […] Read more
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Big Hearts and Sympathetic Traits

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Billy

Wolverhampton People  of the past had  Big Hearts and Sympathetic Traits Charitable playing footballers were  the subject of my last post so I thought I would continue with  this  theme a little longer. From my vast Library it is so easy for me to find pictures and stories regarding  the […]

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Hair Care, 1940s Style as I recall it.

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Billy

THE BARBERS!  A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father)  took a boy to be  almost  scalped, and to indulge  himself in a  masochistic act of being  singed across the back of the head with a flaming  taper.  This practice went on at least […]

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