Postcards from the past – Brickkiln Croft Westside Story It was confirmed today 31st May 2017, that The £55 million regeneration scheme for Westside in Wolverhampton will start in 2018. This past 12 months, has seen Heantun House and the old indoor market knocked down to pave the […]
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Home of a genius and the Sunbeam car.
Bromley Place today. But this extended apartment block today houses a very important link with just one famous Wolverhampton achievment from the past. that sent a thrill around the world. It commemorates the fact that Louis H. Coatalen 1879-1962, Chief Engineer, Sunbeam Motor Car Company Ltd, 1909-1930. Designer of Aero […]
Read moreHow The Mighty Have Fallen
In the Victorian period this area along the Penn Road was were the wealthy people of the town built their grand houses, and today very few now survive in their original design. Muchall Grove is one of the many now existing only as care homes. and even in this guise […]
Read moreA Fox Of A Different Colour
The Old Fox’s Lament Remember St Paul’s, On that old road to Penn. And those little shops that stood opposite; then. Now a long time gone; cause, they needed the ground. But that cunning Old Fox managed to stay around. Well they’ve trapped the Old Fox in his final disguise. […]
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