Local history – This is my truth, tell me yours
I’ve had some great contributions on the ongoing subject of local history lately. Please keep anything you’ve got coming in, and if there’s anything you’d like to ask the audience, just drop me a line....
View ArticleAnother local history challenge: Any ideas?
I have just discovered that Google Mail includes an anti-spam feature I wasn’t aware of. Lurking within said spam folder – siting uncomfortably with spam for pharmaceuticals of dubious provenance and...
View ArticleHome thoughts from abroad
I received a fantastic email at the weekend from Fawlty, following his comment on my Panoramio picture of the sadly derelict St. John’s School and adjacent bungalow in Walsall Wood. Now living in...
View ArticleA Filthy business
Paul Ford, researcher at Walsall Local History Centre and top blog contributor has once again excelled himself and ferreted out a top piece of local history from Walsall’s extensive archives. Paul has...
View ArticleA dying trade
You may remember that way back in February, I posted an article on the mysterious mortuary situated near Bullings Heath in Walsall Wood. The morgue in question had been mentioned by reader [CAZ], and...
View ArticleReader Caz: what a star!
Caz, a regular, long time reader of the Brownhills Blog has recently mailed me a couple of brilliant items which will be of huge interest to local history enthusiasts reading the blog. I’m turning them...
View ArticleMeet me on the corner
This blog is getting quite large. At over 1,050 posts and over 5,000 comments, there’s an awful lot of material, and my mind, addled by caffeine, work junk and bicycle gear ratios isn’t all it could...
View ArticleConundra arising
Right, you lot. I've had some interesting enquiries in recent weeks and rather than spin them all out, I thought I'd post three together and see what folk know about them. I know you mostly like a...
View ArticleDiamonds and dust
With local history, it's all a bit winding and interleaved. Sometimes, you start researching one thing, and follow a straight line; and then, all of a sudden, things you never expected crop up, and you...
View ArticleAn electoral deformity
It's interesting to note that Peter 'Pedro' Cutler is coming over all iconoclastic again - and I, for one, welcome it, as Peter has a fine record of kicking over the statues of the local mining history...
View ArticleSafe as houses?
I'm pleased to say that, somewhat like rust, Peter 'Pedro' Cutler never sleeps, and his tireless and somewhat relentless pursuit of the evidential history behind some of the commonly accepted...
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