The Joy of Reading The way by which little words on pages stir your imagination and resurrect yesterday pass to your brain. In the process, they endow themselves with rich, warm life, and all that has been is again, you hear poets sing. The love of storytelling came to me […]
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Steelhouse Lane Is Today In Pain
We start in the mid 1960’s. The northern end of Steelhouse Lane looking from Gordon Street on the left across to Jenner Street on the right and through to the Cleveland Road / Bilston Road island. At that time this 200 yard stretch of rented late Victorian Villa properties similar […]
Read moreLawyers Field – Deanery Row – Prospect Place – Fender Row
These are truly historic names, now long gone, that for me and for many others conjure up a picture of happy memories which most of us today visualise through rose-coloured glasses. But in reality if you had seen the living accommodation around Prospect Place in the years between the wars, […]
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