Blimey – McWarreners as a burger joint. There’s one to show the kids. Image by David Hodgkinson.
While I’m getting some stuff straight and catching up with the email mountain, here’s a post I’ve been meaning to do for ages to showcase the work of one of Brownhills longest-standing online historians: Old mate of the blog and constant inspiration David Hodkinson.
David runs one of the oldest – if not the oldest – online history site for Brownhills – check it out here.
David was the first person to my knowledge to record an online gallery of Brownhills pubs, which is still there (and being added to occasionally today). With that and David’s other work – most notably his efforts to chronicle local writing, both historic and fictional – it was this work that laid the inspirational foundation for the Brownhills Blog, which incidentally, is nine years old this week.
Nine years. Might get the hang of this soon.
Any road up, what I wanted to share was the fact that David has a great Flicker presence with some fascinating albums – including his large one on the pubs of Brownhills. I’ve grabbed some provocative ones to share here that will surely jerk some memories – may taken around the year 2000.
If you want to see the full album click here – but better start with David’s whole collection of albums which cover a lot of canal and other local history.
Explore. Get lost in the past for a bit. It’s bloody ace and I’d like to thank David for sharing his passions.
All the photos in the gallery below are David’s work – click any one to see a larger version.
Have anything to add? Please do – comment here or mail me: Brownhillsbob at Googlemail dot com. Cheers.
