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VILLIERS GIRLS TURNING ON THE 20's STYLE THE austerity of the Great War was not long passed, and the hungry if celebrated Twenties were just in their infancy, but that didn't ...
(04/02/2010)
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A room with a view — and another mystery street scene WE MENTIONED on last week that, although we'd had some informative responses to our 908 edition's mystery photograph, entitled ‘Disorder: The Black Country', there were more coming in as we ...
(04/02/2010)
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How a Bugle story led author Patti to Desperate Measures WHEN we begin to walk along the path of life, with no obvious direction in mind, the winding road of ups and downs has many cul-de-sacs, sharp bends, blind alleys, ...
(04/02/2010)
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A saucer of tea for a much respected Mayor ROWLEY Regis Municipal Borough Council may have been consigned to the history books some 44 years ago, but it is still remembered today, not ...
(04/02/2010)
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A snapshot of the Thirties at a Dudley church DEB BROWNLEE from the St John's Church Preservation Group in Kates Hill, Dudley, has been in touch to remind Bugle readers about a ...
(04/02/2010)
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New book on the history of Salt King's Chateau Impney A LOCAL historian has written a book on one of Worcestershire's most lavish mansion houses that was built by a Victorian Black Countryborn ...
(04/02/2010)
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Kenrick and Jefferson's family — in the works and out on the pitch! OUR RECENT run of articles on West Bromwich printing company Kenrick & Jefferson has brought in a few responses from readers with their ... (04/02/2010)
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Brierley Hill firms boost St Michael's church bazaar BEFORE we return Maureen Clark's Bazaar Souvenir, a booklet put together by St Michael's Church in Brierley Hill in 1930, we'd just like to select ...
(04/02/2010)
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A Black Country landlord goes to war— Part Three OUR serialisation of the war diary of John McArdle, landlord of the Pipe Hall Hotel in Bilston, continues. ...
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From Brave Eagle to the Beatles — Yesterday's TV OLD TV programmes have a wonderful habit of evoking recollections of growing up, and this week Alan Keeling has provided us with a ...
(04/02/2010)
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The war in which disease was the number one killer CEDRIC Fletcher of Brereton Road, Willenhall, has kindly followed up the article we published in Bugle 905 entitled ‘Inscriptions that catch ...
(04/02/2010)
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Shaggy Dog story from 1857 WE all like a shaggy dog story, and here's one our ancestors would have enjoyed reading the Brierley Hill Advertiser on Saturday 7th ...
(04/02/2010)
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RAF PT Display Team at Earls Court A short but interesting story that began with an e-mail from Down Under, has grown to such an extent it now deserves a full page spread. ...
(04/02/2010)
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Smethwick footballers who got on their bikesWELL, if they didn't they had no excuse — because they worked for Phillips Cycles of Smethwick, and played in the firm's football team — Phillips ... (28/01/2010) [Read More]
Woodside with Dudley Guest Hospital CupSEVERAL weeks ago (in issue 901), we published a photograph of a successful Woodside Wanderers football team, from Dudley, season 1923-24. ... (28/01/2010) [Read More]
Kates Hill lad went on to play for Dudley BoysTHIS pair of football photographs, dating from the 1950s, has been brought to us by Trevor Smith of Prestwood, near Kinver. ... (28/01/2010) [Read More]
Netball girls of Harvills Hawthorn in the Swinging Sixties WE change sports from football to netball for this photograph taken at Harvills Hawthorn Junior School, West Bromwich, back in 1964/65.This has been kindly supplied by Mrs Pat Parker (nee ... (22/01/2010) [Read More]
West Bromwich club a labour of loveTHE birth of one of the Black Country's best known clubs, West Bromwich Labour BC, is something of a mystery. One of their best known ... (28/01/2010) [Read More]
‘I wonder how the lads are after all these years?'PRIOR to Christmas, and just before he embarked on another brief sojourn to sunnier climes with his wife, Geoff Acaster popped into Bugle House ... (28/01/2010) [Read More]
Palfrey pals in Walsall Youth League OUR thanks go to Mrs Jill Beckett (nee Cartwight), of Poplar Road, Great Wyrley, for sending in this football team photograph which takes us back sixty years. ...
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Cricket, Football and Bowls at Richard Thomas and Baldwin'sIN the current times, it wouldn't bear thinking about that an employer would or could organise two days of sporting activities for employees from various far flung branches, with transport ... (22/01/2010) [Read More]
Info wanted on mystery side with ref links THIS photograph comes to us from George Ingley of Warley Sunday League, in the hope that readers can throw some light on the team shown.George wonders if anyone can provide ... (22/01/2010) [Read More]
Willenhall Town Reserves back in the Seventies HERE'S another photograph from Tony Turpin's Willenhall Town F.C. collection (he was club secretary from 1964 until 1984).This shows the Willenhall Town Reserves side in the late 1970s, which puts ... (22/01/2010) [Read More]
Stan still weaving his skills after fifty years EIGHTY year old Stan Webb has been weaving his skills on Black Country bowling greens for over fifty years.This quietly spoken, unassuming player was introduced the game in 1957, when, ... (22/01/2010) [Read More]
When Willenhall took on the ‘All Stars'WE are once again indebted to Tony Turpin, the former secretary of Willenhall Town FC, for supplying these photographs, on this occasion ... (24/12/2009) [Read More]
Mystery football photograph linked to Wordsley oldsterA FEW weeks back, in November, we published the photograph (right), asking for details on the young team which had won a trophy back in 1948. ... (24/12/2009) [Read More]
Ray is revelling in his role as Staffs PresidentSIXTY-eight year old retired engineer Ray Lewis is the new Staffordshire County Bowling Association President. ... (24/12/2009) [Read More]
Carriage works team and their trophiesRECENT mentions of the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon works at Smethwick has brought a sporting response from Aubrey Fellows of ... (16/12/2009) [Read More]
Saint Chad's lads facing the camera sixty years agoIT'S been quite a few weeks ago now since we published, in 897, a photograph of St Chad's under-14s football team of season 1953/54, ... (16/12/2009) [Read More]
A Charlton who played for Great Bridge White StarAT the beginning of the year we published some sports team pictures supplied by John Charlton of Willenhall, one showing the football team ... (16/12/2009) [Read More]
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