
FINE, leaded glass windows, an erect, shiny-coated horse tethered to an immaculate trap, a proud landlord, and his daughter, no doubt, high up in the seat above him. Everything is ...
(13/11/2008)
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SEVERAL times over the years the Bugle has paid tribute to John McHugh, a Wolverhampton lad who was born with an incredible singing voice, who despite his humble background went ...
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TWO items of interesting home front memorabilia of the Second World War have been kindly brought to the Bugle by Stan Baggott of Bloxwich. ...
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IN this age of uncertainty and change it's a tonic to come across a Black Country business that has, over the years, held its own through thick and thin, and ...
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THE name Chance looms large in the history of Smethwick and the Black Country, and when we recently received a letter from a member of that famous family who lives ...
(14/11/2008)
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WITH the 90th anniversary of the armistice fresh in our minds, we remember the millions of casualties of World War One, and the nurses ...
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AS we tighten our belts, more of us are turning back the clock and taking a leaf from our Black Country forebears' household manuals. Leftovers are making a comeback and ...
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By Dianne Pye

ALL that we can say about traffic today is: it clogs the roads and poisons the air. All aboard the road to ruin one way or another. Think of the ...
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IT WAS in September that we featured a set of photographs and the recollections of the Pilot public house in Green Lane, Wolverhampton, that had been sent by Mary Lea ...
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LAST week we told the story behind the Reginald Unwin Dudley charity homes at Shaver's End, Dudley. One of the leading figures behind ...
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IN THAT long interval between the end of the First World War and the dawning of the jet age, the working class of much of Britain, the ...
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THE DUKE of Edinburgh was in our neck of the woods last week, paying a visit to a couple of schools in Tipton, and by all accounts he quite enjoyed ...
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SIX weeks ago we featured the beautiful Black Country ladies that competed for the title of Miss BSR 1978. Those pictures were brought to us by Arthur Hill of Old ...
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"WHAT fabulous times they were back then," says Diane Rhodes from Whitehall Drive in Dudley, who has been inspired by our recent features on Himley Hall to pick up a ...
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