Black Country news and blogs Monday 19 June 2017
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Civic dignitaries come together for Black Coountty Society’s half… 
Black Country Bugle 18 Jun 17
MORE than 100 members and guests of the Black Country Society celebrated the society’s 50th anniversary at Himley Hall, earlier this month.
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Albion v Wolves – the complete history of the Black Country…
Black Country Bugle 18 Jun 17
DURING the close season of 1970, Wolves boss Bill McGarry signed striker Bobby Gould from Arsenal for 55,000 and midfielder Danny Hegan from Albion for 27,500 to boost his squad, while in a pre-season friendly, German club Hannover ’96 won …
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A punch, a smack and off went the Wolves keeper
Black Country Bugle 17 Jun 17
TONY MATTHEWS’ recent article on the 1967-68 season took us back to the first derbies between the two rivals for over two years, due to Wolves suffering relegation in 1965.
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Tipton library’s football team throw down gauntlet to rival sides
Black Country Bugle 17 Jun 17
STAFF and volunteers at Tipton Library have put together a 5-a-side football team, tongue-in-cheekily called BC Milan.
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70th anniversary of the sad death of Frankenstein movie director
Black Country Bugle 16 Jun 17
MAY 29 marked the 70th anniversary of the tragic death of the acclaimed Black Country-born film director James Whale, who committed suicide at his home in Hollywood, California, in 1957.
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First class grain for the discerning Pigeon Fancier
Black Country Bugle 15 Jun 17
THERE are still a few corn merchants around the Black Country, but there is nothing like the market there once was for them.
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Bridge to nowhere built with iron from Tipton
Black Country Bugle 15 Jun 17
THERE is some justification in arguing that modern Britain was built in the Black Country as so many of the great feats of engineering in the 19th and 20th centuries, be they bridges, railways or iconic buildings, were made with Black Country iron.
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Unusual Christmas card from Wordsley
Black Country Bugle 15 Jun 17
THIS postcard, more than 100 years old, shows a gentleman posing proudly by the front gate of his Wordsley home but it’s rather an unusual choice for a Christmas card.
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Light-hearted night of home nations music
Black Country Bugle 14 Jun 17
Following their highly acclaimed performance of St Matthew Passion in April of this year, the Wombourne and District Choral Society are now busy practising for their next concert which is entitled ‘The Best of British’.
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Black Country named after ironworks smoke
Black Country Bugle 14 Jun 17
I will be giving a talk, with pictures, on ‘Mining in Cradley’ at 7.30pm on Thursday 15 June.
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I have been tracing my family tree
Black Country Bugle 14 Jun 17
Your article on page 10 of edition 1293 immediately rang bells for me, since I came across this Horseley works Tipton/French connection when tracing my family history.
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Restoration after 83 years service on the Black Country’s canals
Black Country Bugle 12 Jun 17
DUDLEY Canal and Tunnel Trust own the historic tug called No.5 Bittell.
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Historic papers reveal story behind fires at Old Hill colliery
Black Country Bugle 10 Jun 17
IN RECENT years John Taylor of Kidderminster has shared with us a wealth of artefacts and interesting pictures from his collection of all things relating to his birthplace of Stourbridge.
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Second World War memories of Dudley Girls High School teacher
Black Country Bugle 8 Jun 17
THE SECOND World War impacted on every aspect of daily life for those on the Home Front.
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I shall never forget the sight of the wreckage
Black Country Bugle 7 Jun 17
The article in the Bugle of May 17, on the historic Wednesfield events, brought back instant memories for me of the terrible Lancaster bomber crash.
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I made an appeal for stability
Black Country Bugle 7 Jun 17
Sadly, Paul Lambert has lost the battle for the soul of Wolverhampton Wanderers and football decency.
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Dad told me pool opened in 1930s
Black Country Bugle 7 Jun 17
With regards to the photo of the Gordon Sports Pool in Bugle 1292, it was situated just past Thompson Brothers works, off Great Bridge Road.
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Albion v Wolves – the complete history of the Black Country…
Black Country Bugle 7 Jun 17
Black Country Derbies ReturnNew boss and former chicken farmer Alan Ashman was in charge of Albion when the first Black Country derby for almost two-and-a-half years took place at Molineux on 23 August 1967.
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Molineux men were kings of the bowling green
Black Country Bugle 7 Jun 17
KEITH BEAMAN is one of the Midlands’ best known and most successful bowlers, and he’s been stalking the greens for more decades now than he’d care to remember.
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Lost farm in the heart of Tipton
Black Country Bugle 6 Jun 17
EVEN in the darkest days of the old Black Country, when the landscape was scarred by decades of mining and industrial waste, there was still lots of agricultural land, with farms nestling cheek-by-jowl with the slag heaps, marl pits and spoil.
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It started at six in the morning with the sergeant banging on a…
Black Country Bugle 6 Jun 17
HAVING read over the months and years of readers’ experience during their National Service, I wonder if any Bugle readers can relate to the following?In 1952 I had my medical at the Central Library in Wolverhampton to find out if I was fit enough to …
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Wall Heath man’s 90 year old driving licence
Black Country Bugle 5 Jun 17
AROUND 7 million motorists in the UK still have the old pink and green paper driving licence, after the credit card-style licence was introduced in 1998 but have you ever seen a licence as old as this one?Of course, it has long expired.
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Mayor of the lost borough of Tipton
Black Country Bugle 5 Jun 17
THERE is no such role these days, since the formation of Sandwell Borough, but Tipton once had its own mayor, and thanks to Tiptonian Brian Williams, we can show you this rare image of a Tipton mayor from the early 1960s.
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Tipton Library hosts cartoons and poetry
Black Country Bugle 5 Jun 17
THERE’S always something going on at Tipton Library.
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Half a century since Coombs Wood company closed
Black Country Bugle 4 Jun 17
OVER the weekend of May 13/14 a group of tugs and joey boats gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the shutdown of the Stewarts and Lloyds tube works at Coombeswood in Halesowen.
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Molineux mauling for City’s Bradley boy
Black Country Bugle 4 Jun 17
IT SHOULD have been a happy homecoming for a Bilston boy but Saturday, December 23, 1933, proved a nightmare for Jim Nicholls.
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Singing stars and a wartime works dinner at West Bromwich
Black Country Bugle 3 Jun 17
WE HAVE here a range of West Bromwich gatherings, all courtesy of our old friend Terry Price, historian and author on the subject of that very town.
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Forgotten Himley clock is the oldest in the district
Black Country Bugle 2 Jun 17
HAVE YOU ever noticed the clock tower at Himley Hall? You could be forgiven for not recognising it, as it stands atop the old coach house and stable block and most people tend to go to the hall itself.
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Journey into Dreams – from The Big Beats to The Wolves
Black Country Bugle 2 Jun 17
IN 1964, local band The Wolves held the unique distinction of becoming the very first Wolverhampton pop group to be signed to a major international record label.
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The day my ball broke Mrs Dainty’s window
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
I’ve been following the items about Billy Dainty with interest.
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Albion v Wolves – the complete history of the Black Country…
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEASON 1964-65 …
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Last game heartbreak for Wanderers’ Captain Cullis
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEVENTY years ago today, Molineux staged one of the most dramatic matches in the history of English football.
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Last game heartbreak for Wanderers’ Captain Cullis
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEVENTY years ago today, Molineux staged one of the most dramatic matches in the history of English football.
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Last game heartbreak for Wanderers’ Captain Cullis
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEVENTY years ago today, Molineux staged one of the most dramatic matches in the history of English football.
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Last game heartbreak for Wanderers’ Captain Cullis
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEVENTY years ago today, Molineux staged one of the most dramatic matches in the history of English football.
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Last game heartbreak for Wanderers’ Captain Cullis
Black Country Bugle 31 May 17
SEVENTY years ago today, Molineux staged one of the most dramatic matches in the history of English football.
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Letters from the captain kept Dudley girls in touch with their…
Black Country Bugle 30 May 17
MANY readers will remember, or at least be familiar with, the British Ship Adoption Society, but it came as a shock to me when I came across two volumes in the records we have of Dudley Girls High School detailing the ships they had adopted.
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Bugle reaches around the world for story of WWI music hall star
Black Country Bugle 29 May 17
REGULAR Bugle readers may remember the name Albert Voyce.
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Sports stars and work mates at Bilston’s Sankey works
Black Country Bugle 28 May 17
THERE was a time when the big employers in the Black Country boasted impressive sports facilities for the use of their workers.
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Dudley Zoo spreads the love at half-term
Black Country Bugle 28 May 17
DUDLEY ZOO are inviting visitors to show their love for their animals this half-term, which has been branded Love Your Zoo week.
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The final representatives of Smethwick Borough Council
Black Country Bugle 27 May 17
THE 32 FACES you see on these pages were all alderman and councillors who left office 50 years ago.
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Record-breaking reputation was not enough to save AJS
Black Country Bugle 27 May 17
WOLVERHAMPTON was once one of the world centres of motor vehicle manufacture, home to household names such as Sunbeam, Star, Guy and Clyno to name a handful.
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Centenary commemoration for Coseley Victoria Cross hero
Black Country Bugle 25 May 17
THE NUMBER 839 is an inauspicious one.
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May Day is still marked
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
Just read the article by Vanessa Scott in Bugle 1289 about the celebrating of May Day.
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Eva was able to identify herself in photograph
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
As outlined in my previous letter (on page 9 of last week’s edition) on Easter Sunday 2017, Eva Wixon (nee Cox) returned to her childhood church, All Saints’ in Sedgley, to attend Evensong.
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Music video was filmed in Blackheath
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
Regarding Bugle 1288, May 3rd, 2017, on page 13 you have two photos of the ongoing demolition of Terrace Street in Blackheath.
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Dudley Dorothy’s Wimbledon magic secured two ladies titles
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
NINETY years ago, tennis fans at a small tournament in Pwllheli, Wales, saw a 15-year-old Dudley girl play an experienced Wimbledon player.
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Books, Baggies, and Pelé – Tony looks back over four…
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
TONY MATTHEWS, our resident football expert and long-time compiler of our weekly A-Z of West Midlands Football column, was no slouch himself when it came to football, and he signed for the Albion as a striker, on the same day as Tony Brown…
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I signed for the Albion on the same day as Bomber Brown
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
THE BUGLE’S Tony Matthews, author of our weekly A-Z of West Midlands Football column, is almost certainly the most prolific author on the Beautiful Game.
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Billy’s greatest assignment was to beat fears after ankle…
Black Country Bugle 24 May 17
ONLY the biggest stars in football got to put out their own books and only the luckiest youngsters woke on Christmas morning to find one in their stocking.