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An exterior view of Wolverhampton Hippodrome circa 1921.

The Fall Of Wolverhampton Hippodrome

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Billy

Wolverhampton Hippodrome was formerly the old Empire Palace Theatre But what caused the fall… of the old Wolverhampton music hall? The tragic loss of this majestic Queen Square icon happened sixty-two years ago this week. The Wolverhampton Hippodrome framed through the arch of the Queen Arcade, shortly before […]

“HOWES LIFE”- Part Four. MEMORIES OF A 40s CHILD

Posted on December 30, 2016 by Billy

ONE ROAD TO PARADISE There was a time when my town of Wolverhampton belonged to the people and what bit of motorised traffic there was shared the roads and street with pedestrians in complete harmony, as seen here in our main shopping venue Dudley Street. This view during a […]

Déjà Vu Perhaps ?

Posted on February 14, 2016 by Billy

PIPERS ROW again on TRACK? – THE GRAND old TRAM is coming BACK Chapter one Breaking News February 2016. We have got huge concerns about plans released today for the extension of the Midland Metro in Wolverhampton. The new £15 million line will run along Pipers Row and Railway […]

Wolverhampton’s “Man on the ‘Oss” is 150 years old this year.

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Billy

Wolverhampton’s “Man on the ‘Oss” is 150 years old this year! Arrowsmith’s cartoon shows the captured Crimean Cannon, soon to be replaced with the statue of the Prince Consort which remains there today in 2015. After the death of Albert, the Prince Consort, in 1861 steps were taken in […]

LIFE WITH THE LIONS

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Billy

“Howes Life” with the Lions When my Aunt featured in the Lions Den at Bostock & Wombwells, Menagerie, in 1930 It was to be the last time this popular attraction would visit our town. This lively sketch of the old Market Place, dated 1793, by artist Thomas Rowlandson, […]

Every Picture Tells A Story

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Billy

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 […]

The Markets

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Billy

The original market place as you probably know was in High Green, which is now Queen Square; and was long a nuisance to the inhabitants and a great trial to the health of the Butchers, green-grocers etc, who possessed the stalls. So in 1848, the newly elected Town Council agreed […]

What’s Happened to North Street?

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Billy

As its name suggests this street was the principal route to the North from Wolverhampton. It ran from Queen Square for roughly three quarters of a mile, and at a time between the wars, it would contain every type of trade and business you could mention, plus two Churches two […]