Brownhills Gazette September 1993 issue 48 – A protest about expanded quarrying and landfill in Walsall Wood, launch of a new Brownie pack, Brian Stringer dices with death, a fuzzy but interesting archive pic, the history of Ogley WMC, crime was increasing, and loads more. Click for a larger version.

Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette – I present issue 49 of the long lost freesheet, from October 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 is a 20 page issue, with a protest about expanded quarrying and landfill in Walsall Wood, launch of a new Brownie pack, Brian Stringer dices with death, a fuzzy but interesting archive pic, the history of Ogley WMC,  crime was increasing, and loads 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 49 October 1993 – PDF format