A REGULAR dose of the Bugle seems to reinvigorate Black Country folk wherever they live. One of our most avid readers is Jan Perryman (our ‘Black Country wench on the Isle of Wight’), who
IS cleanliness really next to godliness, and should we wash our dirty linen in public? Well no, however, let’s take a look at washday, from Victorian times to today’s pursuit of dazzling
THE Black Country is noted for its characters, and they don’t come much larger than life than Brian Fanthom from Langley - who pub customers of a few years ago will remember for his amazing
GAS cookers were introduced in the late 19th century, offering women a cleaner and more efficient means of cooking in the home. But, despite the new technology being available, cooking by gas
WHEN John Selway began reading a copy of the Black Country Bugle back in September, he was flabbergasted when he came across a photo in Dianne Pye’s article ‘A Celebration of the
THE ‘Round Oak relic Down Under’ article in Bugle 911 has drawn this response from former Round Oak Steel Works employee Colin Woodward of Cradley Heath. Colin told us: “I was
OVER the best part of forty years Bugle readers have been sending us their coins, medallions and tokens for closer scrutiny, either to admire the craftsmanship that went into making them in the first
THESE two photographs show long lost hostelries in Stourbridge and they have been kindly loaned to the Bugle by Raymond Franks of Stourport-on-Severn. One shows a pub in the Stambermill district,
MANY Bugle readers have commented on the demolition of Cronehills School to make way for a new supermarket in West Bromwich. Mrs K.M. Wheatley of Hednesford, Cannock, is another former pupil with many
THIS pair of family photographs, more than 90 years old, have been sent to the Bugle by Miss Rosemary Walker. They show three brothers from Tipton who, like so many young men across the nation,
THERE’S a certain type of photograph which captures the Black Country of the late nineteenth/ early twentieth centuries to a tee, and this is very much one of them. Working men in the clothes of
THIS sturdy little vessel is a bit of a variation on the usual theme; straighter and narrower than the usual ‘torpedo’ bottles, but a close relative nevertheless. It was dug up by Andrew
HERE’S the sharpshooting young footballers of Guns Village Primary School, West Bromwich, around sixty years ago. The sender is Brian Kelford of Edinburgh Drive, Rushall, who is standing just in
WE ARE indebted to Alan Watkins of Wolverley Avenue, Wollaston, for supplying this pictorial reminder of his rugby-playing days at Stourbridge Grammar School. This photograph shows the lads who played
GRAHAM Corns, of 20 Deborah Close, Goldthorn Hill, Wolverhampton, has been in contact with us about a football team which he served as chairman. Its name was Claremore United (a derivation of
A former head of MI5 has claimed that US intelligence agencies had deliberately concealed their mistreatment of terror suspects.
BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has hit back at the body's critics, saying it should not be replaced by a "glorified complaints office".
Tributes have been paid to two British soldiers killed on the same day in Afghanistan.
Steven Pienaar has dismissed reports suggesting he may be on his way out of Everton as "speculation".
Sir Alex Ferguson expects David Beckham to be consigned to the AC Milan bench for his emotional Old Trafford return.