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Music in the shadow of darkness
Now, here’s a thing. It is probably the most complete illustration of Brownhills in that peculiar, post Second World War twilight hangover period I’ve ever seen. Found by local historian Clive Roberts,...
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A different class
A quick one here from the young David Evans, who's found a couple of gems from the postwar years of the Walsall Wood County Primary School at Streets Corner - this is the building that David returned...
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Down with the kids
Yet again, the young David Evans has played a blinder and come up with some fantastic images of the classes and staff at Walsall Wood County Primary, which was the school that formerly existed in the...
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Down the drive at the side…
The young David Evans has been at it again, and been has chatting to former teacher,Mrs. Eleanor Holland, who's supplied this wonderful image of the St. John's School Infants Class of 1960. Continue...
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Not only customers, but friends
A lovely bit of ephemera relating to Deakins' Central Stores and Jonah Deakin has been sent in by the wonderfully generous Gillian Gaiser, who donated her wonderful writing about the Deakin family to...
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Tom, hark!
Earlier in the year, I published the memories of Elizabeth Hampton who grew up in Pier Street Brownhills, and I still have the second half of that memoir to come - however, this week she sent me some...
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An elocution confusion solution?
Here's a thing - it's rare I think, that I can answer a question asked of the blog so comprehensively, but today an enquiry dropped into the mailbox from reader Glen Wootton, who posed the following...
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The class of 62
Here's a great addition to the canon of postwar class photos from Brownhills Central Boys School, posted by reader Malcolm Jemison last week - he thinks it's from around 1962, and it sits well next to...
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