Black Country Bugle

Thursday 17 May 2012

Sports Stories

Top Church footballers in 1958

OUR thanks go to John Wilkinson (wilkinson@ ironmaster.wanadoo.co.uk) for sending us this photograph of his football team from St Thomas's C of E (Top Church) Junior School at Dudley, in 1958 (their

Who were B.H. Associates?

THIS question is posed by reader Barbara Kemp, who has emailed this team photograph to us. It is more than one hundred years old, and shows a Black Country side with two fine trophies, described on

Tranco (Bilston) team lined up in 1964

WE are indebted to John Grice of Camberley Crescent, Wolverhampton, for supplying this colourful image of a football team he used to play for almost half a century ago. This was Tranco United FC, a

Quarry Bank Celtic in the Sixties

OVER several editions last year we published photographs of Quarry Bank Celtic Football Club during ther 1950s heyday when they won a collection of important trophies, including the Dudley Guest

Info wanted on cricket side from Oldbury from half a century ago?

OUR thanks go to former Oldbury wench, Jan Perryman, nowadays living on the Isle of Wight, for this photograph of a group of local cricketrs from around fifty years ago. Can anyone tell us more about

Fordhouses School Bird Cup Winners

THIS young football team was well kitted out for this proud picture, taken at the end of season 1953/54, when the school in question Fordhouses at Wolverhampton had won the prestigious Bird Cup.

Mud, glorious mud for Springfield WMC in '60s

FOOTBALL pitches don't come like this one anymore in fact, we wonder if referees of today would allow a game to go ahead with all this glorious mud (and puddles) in the goalmouth? This photograph