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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Friday We Had Fish
Although I have never been a keen angler, throughout my life I have always had a love for fish. It may stem from the fact that my grandfather and my father were at some time connected with the trade. To this day there is nothing I find more interesting that […]
Read moreFeathering for Christmas
The way to handle “The Birds” came naturally to my father Jack Howe A story of Market Life My father, was introduced to working life in Wolverhampton markets by his boyhood friend Tommy Wright, who’s uncle, Albert Thomas owned a local fish merchant business. During the first World war every […]
Read moreA Change Of Scenery Around The Deanery
The illustrated talk I chose to do that day seemed appropriate for the occasion and the venue – The Civic Centre. Now with this talk I try to give my interpretation of how the area, now occupied by our present seat of government has changed in appearance over the past […]
Read moreThe Boys Of Saint Peters School
These are school rooms belonging to the Collegiate Church, erected in Craddocks Walk, (later St Peters Walk) which led from the Churchyard, and ran down in between – at this time in the picture – the Retail Market Hall and the open patch and ended in North Street. The Schools […]
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