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Publican Harry Jackson's cracking 6d meal deal

News - Harry Jackson with perhaps his wife and daughter looking onFINE, 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) Read More [Read More]



Seeking the lost records of a Wolverhampton opera sensation

News - John backstage in 1953 with Jon PertweeSEVERAL 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 ... (13/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Reminders of wartime life on the home front

News - The spectacles to ber worn under a gasmaskTWO items of interesting home front memorabilia of the Second World War have been kindly brought to the Bugle by Stan Baggott of Bloxwich. ... (13/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Fifty years in the frame in Lye

News - Cameras fill the shop window in the early days of WR Hart PhotographersIN 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 ... (13/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Chance letter from America

News - Park plaqueTHE 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) Read More [Read More]



Ninety Years On - looking back on the Great War

WITH the 90th anniversary of the armistice fresh in our minds, we remember the millions of casualties of World War One, and the nurses ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Back to Basics with Bread

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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Coping with the trials of traffic

By Dianne Pye

News - Council Highway Depot drivers receiving their diplomas in Wombourne in 1958ALL 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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Fond memories of the Pilot, Green Lane

News - Green Lane with the sign of the Pilot visible to the rightIT 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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Tribute to Dudley industrialist knight

News - Sir George Bean 1955-1924LAST week we told the story behind the Reginald Unwin Dudley charity homes at Shaver's End, Dudley. One of the leading figures behind ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



To Blackpool from the Black Country - down the ages

News - BlackpoolIN 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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



Doris's dates with the Royals in the heyday of the Mini

News - Doris and friends meet Princess MargaretTHE 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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



The last Miss BSR wins her crown

News - Radio 1 DJ Paul Burnett congratulates GeorgiaSIX 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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]



'It was a great feeling to think I was going to start work at Himley Hall'

"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 ... (14/11/2008) Read More [Read More]