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Perfect Timings
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about industry in Brownhills, and why so little memory of it seems to come to light – recently, I mentioned Ogley Mill and the Superalloys Works – Brownhills was never a mining town as such, it was instead a town of a fair few trades

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Tagged Binks Bullows, Brownhills Clothing, Butlers, Carver & Co, Castings, Crabtree, Edward Rose, Geometry International, Labro, Midland Record, Rowanarc, Strumech
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Pigeon post
Homing and racing pigeons are strong in the hearts of local folk – there was at one time a huge pigeon keeping culture in Brownhills and Walsall Wood, now sadly on the wane and I can remember being in the Black Cock pub in Bullings Heath, Walsall Wood in the early 90s on a Friday evening and watching as the local club clocked in birds and prepared for the weekend’s sport.
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Tagged 1957, 1962, ATV, Binks Bullows, Black Cock, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Carvers, Crabtree, Edward Rose, Events, Flip, Fred Butler, Geometry International, hobbies, Homing, Lew Ways, Local History, MACE, midlands media archive, Ogley Club, old film footage, Pigeon, Racing, Ring, Rowanarc, Ryford, Staffordshire, Strumech, Superalloys, Walsall Wood
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