Local News
READER Harry Martin has long been a keen photographer, and has of late been going through some of his old pictures. Always keen to capture changes to the local landscape over the years, Harry built up
Published: Fri 24 May 2013
A hundred years after the start of the Wednesbury tube workers strike in May 1913, the story has captured the imagination of Bugle readers, and one of them is Ian Bott, a seasoned writer and speaker on
Published: Thu 23 May 2013
Is there a Black Country connection with the bouncing bomb? That intriguing theory has been put forward by a number of Bugle readers who have contacted our paper this month on the 70th anniversary of the
Published: Sun 19 May 2013
The history of the Black Country's canal network stretches back to the 18th century, and stories and photographs about our treasured waterways are constantly gracing the pages of the Bugle. They are a
Published: Sat 18 May 2013
Over the past few weeks we have been following the story of Derrick Such's family involvement in the brewing industry; Derrick worked on the drays at the Cape Hill Brewery in Smethwick, and his grandparents
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Local Sport
IF ANYONE can claim to be the elder statesman of our national game, it's Bert Williams of Wolves and England, now into his nineties and still making regular appearances in the press and on local TV news.
Published: Tue 21 May 2013
Even after sixty years their names are indelibly imprinted on my memory and they were the footballing lads who represented Brierley Hill Schoolboys in season 1950-51 reaching the final of The English Schools
Published: Sun 19 May 2013
QUARRY BANK reader Clive Fellows paid us a visit recently and very kindly gave us this photograph of Brierely Hill & Sedgley and District Schoolboys, dating from 1951.
Published: Wed 15 May 2013
FOOTBALL fans of a certain age will need no reminding of the talents of Dennis Stevens, the Dudley lad who rose to national attention as a stalwart of the Bolton Wanderers side of the late fifties, and
Published: Mon 29 Apr 2013
WE TOOK a look, on the back page of our 11th April edition, at the career of Jim Cochrane of Brierley Hill.