Brownhills Gazette October 1994 issue 61 – large 28 page issue with local vandals giving rise to stinging editorial, possible job losses at the community association, youth club was safe for now, it was the end of an era for Jaygor Supplies, Clayhanger Methodists were getting a new church hall, Tom Rivers was appealing for Remembrance volunteers, and mines rescue and schooldays pictures were pulled from the archives, plus loads more. Click for a larger version.

Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette – I present issue 61 of the long lost freesheet, from October 1994 for you to peruse and download. I’ve had an incredible response to featuring these long, lost publications here on the blog.

David Evans, very kindly granted access to the archive held by former editor and contributor Brian Stringer, has been assiduously and conscientiously scanning them all. Every single issue. Every few days, I’m going to feature the next in the series.

This is a large 28 page issue with local vandals giving rise to stinging editorial, possible job losses at the community association, youth club was safe for now, it was the end of an era for Jaygor Supplies, Clayhanger Methodists were getting a new church hall, Tom Rivers was appealing for Remembrance volunteers, and mines rescue and schooldays pictures were pulled from the archives, plus loads more.

It’s worth noting the magazine has, at this point, been expanded to cover Pelsall, and there’s a fair bit of relevant content.

The history of how the Brownhills Gazette came to exist has been detailed in this post thanks to the wonderful John Sylvester.

If other bloggers want to use this material, can you please drop me a line first? I don’t mind, there’s just sone stuff I’d like to clear about the usage, thanks.

Cheers to Brian and David for sharing a wonderful thing, that’s part of our community history.

If you have any memories, questions or observations please do comment or mail me – BrownhillsBob at Googlemail dot com.

Brownhills Gazette issue 61 October 1994 – PDF format