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 7, I was talking about the Freemasons Arms, but […]
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The landscape of so many cities and towns throughout Britain has changed dramatically since the war especially the centres containing the streets with the various individual shops sitting side by side. Wolverhampton, for example, in the heart of the Midlands was never a classic picture postcard town. I suppose mainly […]
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WHAT’S HAPPENED TO NORTH STREET? North Street. dominated by the Telephone exchange ,on one side and the Civic Centre on the other – is not really a street any more since the ring road came and cut it in half. Today in 2015, with Wadhams Hill gone, The Town Hall, Civic Hall […]
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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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A thank you in verse for lifting the curse. There came a time my drink ran dry, and those who once cared passed me by. And all around me was swept away, never to see another day. I felt certain this would happen to me, and the same sorry end […]
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The North Street I knew is still around, you find it now through a hole in the ground. Remember old Wadhams Hill was here. Now today no Wadhams Hill, no Milner Hall, and no shops that reached up to the Chequer Ball. But what about these shops that made way […]
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