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In the shade

Peter ‘Pedro’ Cutler has come upon an interesting football related query after finding something unexpected whilst looking for articles of Brownhills soccer teams as I requested in my post last Sunday.\images Continue reading

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Tesco sends a message to Brownhills: you’re not worth it

I will elaborate on this later, but in case you haven't noticed, the Express & Star is reporting an announcement from Tesco that the plans for a new store in Brownhills are officially dead. http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/05/22/jobs-blow-as-tesco-scraps-expansion-of-brownhills-store/ This is exactly what I've … Continue reading

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Photo puzzle – can you help?

Here’s an interesting query from Laura Masters at Walsall Housing Group which I’m hoping readers may be able to help with.
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Hardly run of the mill…

Yesterday’s great post from David Evans made me hanker for a bit more physical geography – we haven’t done much lately and I thought it would be nice to do some old maps and the landscape they contain stuff for a lazy Sunday.

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Putting a lid on it

The story of the abandoned Shire Oak Reservoir is a recurrent theme from the very earliest days of the Brownhills Blog.
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Cracking up

The story of the abandoned Shire Oak Reservoir is a recurrent theme from the very earliest days of the Brownhills Blog. It fascinated me for years, and one of my earliest obsessions was the discovery of it’s history.
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Record attendance watch Walsall Wood crash out of FA Vase in Guernsey: more spectators than four League Two games

Reblogged from Tyburn Mail: Walsall Wood have been knocked out of the FA Vase tonight. They lost 3-1 in the quarter-final replay in Guernsey in front of a crowd of 2,597. The attendance was a club record for Guernsey, and … Continue reading

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Having a blast?

Jeepboy wrote: For the past 3 years a loud muffled bang can occasionally be heard eminating from the site of the former rangers hut at the start of the black path in Clayhanger – at first it was thought to be a bird scarer but no sight of it could not be found.

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Urgent help needed with stolen trailer!

The 49th Walsall Scout Group based in Aldridge, overnight on Tuesday/Wednesday (19/20th Feruary 2013), had their Trailer stolen from a smallholding in the Pelsall /Shelfield area.
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New homes planned for Brownhills

I notice from the planning system at Walsall Council, plus coverage in the inky press that there is at last a plan by Walsall Housing Group to build replacement homes on the site formerly occupied by the grim maisonette tenements that stood on the A5 Watling Street between Deakin Avenue and the Black Path.
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