Brownhills Gazette March 1993 issue 42 – A 12 page edition in which Shire Oak School became grant maintained, the Lawtons celebrated their 50th, the Clayhanger Bypass was approved (Hmm – whatever happened to that?) a letter full of ideas for Ravens Court, football from the archives and a thoroughly bizarre advert for Claridges. Click for a larger version.

Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette – I present issue 42 of the long lost freesheet, from March 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.

This is another 12 page issue, but it’s packed with interesting stuff – Shire Oak School became grant maintained, the Lawtons celebrated their 50th, the Clayhanger Bypass was approved (Hmm – whatever happened to that?) a letter full of ideas for Ravens Court, football from the archives and a thoroughly bizarre advert for Claridges.

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 42 March 1993 – PDF format