Brownhills Gazette September 1991 issue 24 – 20 pages covering Clayhanger neglect, a wryly amusing article about Oak Park, the wrangling over the new housing at Clayhanger, more bickering councillors and the story of the Holland Park maze. Please click for a larger version.

Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette – I present issue 24 of the long lost freesheet, from September 1991 for you to peruse and download. I’ve had an incredible response to featuring these long, lost publications here on the blog.

Please note we don’t have a copy of issue 22 (July 1991) which is missing from the archive – if you can help, please do get in touch!

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 time there’s concern over the state of Clayhanger, and also the beginnings of the new housing there; an amusing but very true note about Oak Park, the maze that wasn’t amazing at Holland Park, and great archive material once again.

Brian Stringer was a brilliant editor who still knows his stuff, and campaigns relentlessly for the place he loves. Brian was clearly working hard and getting into his stride here.

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 22 September 1991 – PDF format