World War 2 Archives - Lost Wolverhampton

Private F.C. Banting – Stories From The Grave

Posted on March 30, 2021 by Billy

The War Memorial Many people are surprised when I tell them I often enjoy spending time walking through graveyards. Why? Well, names on graves have held a fascination for me ever since as a lad of seven, I stood with my family amongst the many ancient tombstones in Merridale Cemetery […]

The Elephant Never Forgets

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Billy

Query Corner “Hello Billy, I found your email address on your blog – which I stumbled across by accident. I moved from Wolverhampton more than thirty years ago but often look at the City websites to keep up-to-date. For many years, I have been trying to find someone with knowledge […]

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 […]

The Boys Of Saint Peters School

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Billy

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 […]

A Wartime Memory Of Saint Peters Church

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Billy

Now here in the 21st Century, I still feel close to St Peters. My forebears had already lived close by St Peters Church for over a century. When my parents married and settled in Nursery Street, in 1936; I was born there the following year. From our house No. 11, […]

Show Me A Picture And I’ll Tell You A Story

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Billy

Now, it may be the closeness I had with my parents and grandparents as a child that gave me this fondness for looking back at my life in Wolverhampton (Woffledom) . For it was through their environment I.E. (the centre of town) and their active life there, I came to […]

Nemesis

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Billy

No. 2 on the map – Albert Marston, Wellington Works North Street. During the last War they turned out thousands of hand grenades but prior to that they were Lock Manufacturers. To give you an idea how important a part they played in Wolverhampton commerce; it was claimed by them […]

Red Cross Street School

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Billy

No matter what age you are, you never forget the place of your birth or your first school. Number 1 on our Map of North Street – Red Cross Street School. The headline above an article in the Express and Star from 1939 stated… CLASSROOM or FAIRYLAND?.. and it related […]