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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Introduction: On land leased to the council by The Duke of Cleveland in 1881, on the west side of town,which up to then had been the site of a former Racecourse a magnificent Public Park 50 acres in extent opened. it is now known as West Park. Because of […]
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How often do we hear the remark, Oh I wished I’d asked. I would have loved to have known a little about the history of my forebear’s. And after all what more interesting way is there to trace local town or boroughs history than through ones own relatives. Well over […]
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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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Now here in the 21st Century, I still feel close to St Peters. My forebears had already lived close by St Peters Church for over a century. When my parents married and settled in Nursery Street, in 1936; I was born there the following year. From our house No. 11, […]
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They have re-designed the set, the Old players have left, the World I once lived in, is once more bereft. When this picture was taken in 1974, as well as the shadow cast by the sun, from above the new subway, a shadow of doom had already been […]
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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 […]
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No. 26 Nursery Street was the house my Grandparents moved to; the end house in the street overlooking an area of the Londes which had been turned into waste ground at the start of the demolition of North Street in the late 1950’s. But for at least 100 years prior […]
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Although housing was well established on the east side, it was mostly nurseries and gardens at the lower half of North Street.Now notice the line of the wall marked as “Jack’s spot” on this map, which was seen in 1870 as a ten foot wall that backed the lower yard […]
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No. 2 on the map – Albert Marston, Wellington Works North Street. During the last War they turned out thousands of hand grenades but prior to that they were Lock Manufacturers. To give you an idea how important a part they played in Wolverhampton commerce; it was claimed by them […]
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No matter what age you are, you never forget the place of your birth or your first school. Number 1 on our Map of North Street – Red Cross Street School. The headline above an article in the Express and Star from 1939 stated… CLASSROOM or FAIRYLAND?.. and it related […]
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