Tag Archives: Blackout

Explosive stuff

Posted on July 5, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

There’s a discussion currently ongoing in the background between contributors the the Brownhills blog about our area during wartime, and the kind of effect the Second World War had on Brownhills and the wider area as a whole – we’re interested primarily in what people remember, or stories they were told about air raids in the locality.
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The lights that shone bright in the Blackout

Posted on October 19, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

On the continuing theme of wartime Brownhills, air raids and the social upheaval that went with all that, I dug into the newspaper archives for examples of people fined for breaking the lights-out rules.
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