Join me on a pilgrimage to a Civic Centre, standing today on “A celebrated piece of gone but not Forgotten Land” The end of the 1950’s marked the beginning of a new era. In the background from left to right you see the Education offices or the Clinic. Where outside here today stands […]
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Billy’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House
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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Towards the end of the war on my seventh birthday my grandfather gave me a book of short stories by an American author, O Henry. On the inside of the cover my Grandfather or someone else had written these words: And I have remarked that a true delineation […]
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When market trading in fruit and vegetables was in its prime. Looking to the west from the terrace of St Peter’s Church with the greenery of the West Park in the background, we see in the foreground in all its olde world splendour, the old market patch, Wolverhampton pictured in the […]
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