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Tag: Wadhams Hill

post 171 - Billy's Picture Book 8 - A New Horizon

Billy’s Picture Book #8: A New Horizon

Posted on February 5, 2021 by Billy

Seventy years on from Horsefair Looking down from the tower of St Peter’s Church in the late 1960s, we see again that “Times are a Changing”. In the foreground, we see there are now two extensive car-parks where the Majestic Retail Market and Patch once stood. On the left is […]

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The Two Great Survivors Molineux House & Giffard House, Wolverhampton

Billy’s Picture Book #4: Giffard House and Molineux House

Posted on October 27, 2020 by Billy

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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“HOWE’S LIFE” – Part One – Memories of a Forties Child

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Billy

  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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THE WOLVERHAMPTON INNER RING-ROAD – Is No Friend Of Mine!

Posted on January 19, 2016 by Billy

The landscape of so many cities and towns throughout Britain has changed dramatically since the war especially the centres containing the streets with the various individual shops sitting side by side. Wolverhampton, for example, in the heart of the Midlands was never a classic picture postcard town. I suppose mainly […]

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Is There A Light At The End Of The Tunnel?

Posted on May 13, 2009 by Billy

The North Street I knew is still around, you find it now through a hole in the ground. Remember old Wadhams Hill was here. Now today no Wadhams Hill, no Milner Hall, and no shops that reached up to the Chequer Ball. But what about these shops that made way […]

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