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Brownhills Central Boy’s School: Can you help?

Posted on July 20, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

A very interesting request for help came in last week from Bonita Clayton of Brownhills Community Association, who as you’ll know, are based at the former Brownhills Central Boy’s School, or as my generation knew it, the Annexe, which is just by the Miner Island in Brownhills.
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Power to the people

Posted on August 13, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

I’ve had a couple of great responses to my request for material on Walsall’s lost power station that existed at Reedswood, until it’s demolition in the late 1980s.

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Samizdat

Posted on May 26, 2012 by BrownhillsBob

Here’s an interesting curio supplied by blog reader and contributor Pat Lynk, and kindly scanned by local history magnet (magnate?) David Evans.I don’t know who wrote it or why, but it seems to date from the 1980’s. It’s quite an … Continue reading →

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