Another solid 16 page issue – there’s concern over drugs education, am-dram, some interesting planning applications, Harold and Mary Dukes celebrate their 60th, a great early 60s photo from Ogley Junior and lots more. Click for a larger version.

Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette – I present issue 40 of the long lost freesheet, from January 1993 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.

Another solid 16 page issue, bearing the hallmarks of a the new journalist editor; there is a noticeably more newspaperish style, and some great short articles – there’s concern over drugs education, some local am-dram, interesting planning applications, Harold and Mary Dukes celebrate their 60th, a great early 60s photo from Ogley Junior and lots more.

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 40 January 1993 – PDF format