Saturday 2nd June 2012
Brownhills Library, Park View Centre, Chester Road North
Families are invited to come along to a crown & bunting making session 10:00am – 12:00pm
Tel 01922 650730
Walsall Wood Library, High Street, Walsall Wood
Drop-in story and Jubilee craft session 10.30 -11.30am
Tel 01922 655572
Is it possible today? Lichfield Mercury 8 April 1898…
“A writer in the Engineering Magazine says Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee year was not to close without a notable advance in railway speed. Mr SW Johnson brought out on the Midland Railway five new Single-wheeled express engines of singularly fine proportions and handsome appearance…
A speed of 80 mph and upwards was maintained for 13 consecutive miles. The travelling was admirable in its smoothness and absence of oscillation.’