Oldswinford Hospital sporting response TWO weeks ago we published a photograph of the 1936 intake of pupils of Oldswinford Hospital, plus the 1940 cricket team, supplied by Mr Jesse Dowler. This week we able ...
(18/11/2008)
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Cradley Heath trophy winners in the SixtiesOUR thanks go once again to Paul Biggs of Meadow Walk, Cradley Heath, for sending in this photograph of his school football team ... (18/11/2008)
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Tipton soccer memories revived FOLLOWING publication last week of a photograph of a class at Park Lane Secondary Modern School at Tipton, around 1957, we've received the following response from one of the 'old ...
(30/10/2008)
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Oldswinford 'Blue Coat Boys' poser WE hope that Bugle readers can help Wordsley oldster Mr Jesse Dowler, who celebrates his 82nd birthday next month ...
(30/10/2008)
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Andy is the Master at The George!OVER ｣3,000 has been raised over the last twenty years for local charities, including the Air Ambulance, Hope House Children's Hospice and the Severn Hospice, from those competing in the ... (18/11/2008)
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Homer Hill boys of sixty years ago THIS photograph shows the Homer Hill School football team at Cradley, in the late 1940s. The boy with the ball at his feet is Brian Hussey, the father of the ...
(17/10/2008)
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Loyal Don a role modelSIXTY five year old Don Freeman is well known on the Black Country bowls scene and much further afield too. ... (18/11/2008)
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A keepsake of the Molineux Street StandWHEN a favourite place undergoes a major transformation, it is natural that we will want to have some way of remembering it as it was, ... (18/11/2008)
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Father and son won medals in local cup competitionsTHE NEWS that memorabilia from the long history of the J.W. Hunt cup was to go on display at the Beacon Centre for the Blind in Sedgley (see Bugle 830) ... (18/11/2008)
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Fighting to save The WaterlooA fight has been launched by top northern bowler Roger Crowther, appealing for volunteers to join him in a 'Save the Waterloo' campaign following months of uncertainty over the future ... (18/11/2008)
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Young Jodie bowling along to sporting successJODIE Matthews is the toast of the Black Country bowls scene, and particularly of her home club at Wordlsey, after finishing runner-up in Junior Girls Merit, a national competition under ... (18/11/2008)
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New book brings Wolves history bang up to dateIN A HISTORY spanning more than a hundred and thirty years, Wolverhampton Wanderers, one of the English games oldest clubs, have scaled the highest pinnacles, been lower than they ever ... (18/11/2008)
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Wolverhampton Sunday League lads of the late sixtiesGEOFF Alford of Wolverhampton has provided us with the accompanying photograph in the hope that readers can give him a bit more information. Geoff writes:"The saying goes that ... (18/11/2008)
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Memorable win at Forget Me NotBOWLERS in the Black Country should be proud of the achievement of thirteen years old Jodie Matthews, who finished runner up against some of the best youngsters in the ... (18/11/2008)
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St Mary's Hurst Hill netball girls in 1926HERE'S a teaser for some of our Hurst Hill readers. Do recognise your mother or grandmother, or even yourself, in this photograph taken of the 1926/27 St. Mary's netball team, ... (07/10/2008)
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Young Tipton Greeners from 52/53WE are indebted to Ted Ralph of 74 Madin Road, Tipton, for sending in another sporting snippet relating to Tipton Green School. This seat of learning has featured in Bugle ... (18/11/2008)
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No brotherly love in Masters FinalTHE chances of two brothers meeting in the final of the Eunice Birks sponsored Midlands Masters, which last happened with the Spragg brothers from Derbyshire in 2001, were pretty slim... (18/11/2008)
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Hollingsworth netball girlsWE have received a lovely letter with pictures, concerning a netball team from the 1960s made up of employees of a well-known Wednesbury meat company. Doreen Watkiss writes...... (18/11/2008)
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More Park School sporting boys OUR thanks go to Mrs Hazel Marsh of Golden Hillock Road, Netherton, for supplying these two photogarphs to add to the others we have recently published, taken at Park School ...
(16/09/2008)
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Brewood on the way backA BOWLS club which closed after more than three quarters of a century at the heart of village life is to become a force again. ... (18/11/2008)
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A-Z of West Midlands FootballTHIS week, the A-Z of West Midlands Football continues with the careers of former Albion forward ALBERT FLEWITT, ex-Wolves half-back ALBERT FLETCHER, one-time Walsall manager BROUGH FLETCHER and RON FLOWERS, ... (18/11/2008)
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Two stalwart county players meet up againA PAIR of famous names from past glory days of the Staffordshire County Bowling Association met to talk about old times. ... (18/11/2008)
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Dudley school sides in the Swinging Sixties READERS have recently been unearthing a treasure trove of sporting photographs showing teams from Park School, Dudley, and here we have ...
(28/08/2008)
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Joesy The Jumper's feats stood him in good steadTHE fantastic jumping feats of Netherton's Joe Darby (aka Joesy The Jumper) have been mentioned recently, and in response Bill Moorwood ... (18/11/2008)
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Ashley follows in father's footsteps ASHLEY Hickman is a young player who comes from a family well known in West Bromwich on the local bowls scene ...
(28/08/2008)
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Horseley Bridge cricketers of the post-war years IN RECENT weeks we have featured a number of photographs taken inside the works of Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott, showing the men ...
(28/08/2008)
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Philip looking to go to the topPHILIP Clinton has been displaying his skills on the Black Country Crown Green Bowls circuit for some time, but he is now looking to further his bowls career with one ... (18/11/2008)
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Darlaston man's sports medals rescued from garden shedGillian Ray has recently contacted us from West Wales, to tell us about four old sporting medals from the 1930s and 40s (many with Birmingham hallmarks), that her husband Arthur ... (18/11/2008)
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Oldbury School Cricket Teams in Summer of '61FORMER teacher John Campbell, of 38 Woodlands Grove, High Heath, Whitchurch, Shropshire, recalls his introduction to the profession with great fondness:o"Enclosed, please find photographs of the Bristnall Hall ... (18/11/2008)
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Harriers from West Bromwich WITH the 2008 Olympics now under way in China, it is an opportune time to publish this photograph of Black Country athletic types of sixty years ago. ...
(18/11/2008)
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Sporting heyday of Oldbury long serving footballer BRIAN Bradley, who sadly passed away seven years ago, was a keen footballer who played in the local works and amateur leagues. He was part of the successful Accles and ...
(18/11/2008)
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Tipton's Elle heads for WimbledonA 13-year-old schoolgirl tennis player from Tipton is to achieve every player's ambition by playing on the hallowed courts of Wimbledon later this month. Elle Stokes will be competing in ... (18/11/2008)
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'I left the Championships clutching two gold medals'THE Olympics in Beijing are well under way, but many believe the real Games begin in earnest during the second week at the start of the athletics competition; when the ... (18/11/2008)
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Future looking less greenSTAFFORDSHIRE County Individual Merit Champion Mark Picknell nearly clinched one of the game's most prestigious titles the British Crown Green Bowling Association Senior Merit titles. ... (18/11/2008)
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Dudley school sides four years apart WE are again indebted to John Wythes of Russell Street, Dudley, for supplying these photographs of two of his school football teams from around sixty years ago.Last week, ... (04/08/2008)
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Graeme making his mark on and off the green GRAEME Underhill is the hard working secretary and treasurer of the Kingswinford and Brierley Hill Monday Night Bowling League. There is, however, more to this affable character that is generally ...
(04/08/2008)
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Retired pugilist brings his ring lore to the Black Country NORTHERN Ireland born Paddy Monaghan retired from bare-knuckle boxing over twenty five years ago, as an undefeated world champion, and he is still regarded as a legend by those who ...
(04/08/2008)
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'The moment that still ranks as one of the best of my life'OVER past issues Bugle readers have completed several laps of the track with Roy Langford as he has continued to recall his days ... (18/11/2008)
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A look back at the biggest event in Midlands bowlsTHE Olympia, as it was known, developed into an institution amongst the followers of Crown Green Bowls. ... (18/11/2008)
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Down a Speedway Memory Lane THE FOLLOWING sporting reminiscence comes to us from reader Jack Pritchard, who grew up in Cradley Heath, but now lives in Telford: ...
(18/11/2008)
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Team that was shaped by Carpenters KINDLY sent in to us by Mr Dennis Arnold of 5 Walcot Drive, Great Barr, the photograph here shows a youthful West Bromwich football team of around seventy years ago, ...
(18/11/2008)
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Scott a young man making his markTWENTY three year old Scott Deakin is a young man making his mark on and off the bowling green.At a time when local leagues are usually ... (18/11/2008)
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Lutley Youth in the '60s TWO weeks ago we published a photograph showing the football teams of West Bromwich Alliance and Lutley Youth, who in season 1967/68 competed for a charity cup at Sandwell Park ...
(08/07/2008)
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A well known green awaits decisionONE of the biggest and best known bowling greens in the Black Country at Coombs Wood is still providing bowlers with a test of their ... (08/07/2008)
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Fleet of foot lads at Holy Trinity School OUR grateful thanks to Mr John Charlton of Willenhall for supplying the photograph reproduced on the right, which shows himself and four other lads who comprised the ...
(24/06/2008)
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Who was Alf Harvey?By Patrick TalbotWHEN I was putting together research for my book on Black Country-born England international footballers, 'White Shirt, Black Country', I had an immediate problem with the very ... (18/11/2008)
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Behind the scenes with Waggy's WolvesIT'S FAIR to say that footballers these days aren't noted for their interest in books; much has been made in recent times of the fact that very few players could ... (18/11/2008)
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A-Z of West Midlands FootballTHIS week we look at the playing careers of JIMMY DUGDALE (the former Albion and Aston Villa centre-half), ARCHIE DUNN, who played for the Baggies over 100 years ago, ex-Aston ... (18/11/2008)
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