Tag Archives: Charlie

A Ferrie on the cut – but who with, and where?

Posted on October 26, 2016 by BrownhillsBob

I love how the blog allows stories to unfold slowly, gradually adding more and more information and evidence as time passes; and so it is with the story of the Charles Ferrie narrowboat, which Ralph Ferrie donated to Brownhills Youth Club in 1962, and was named in memory of his father.

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Missing from home: Charlie the cat

Posted on January 21, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

Here’s an urgent appeal for a lost cat that’s come in from reader Chris Wharton, who lives at the bottom of Sandhills on the Lichfield Road near Shore Oak – his beloved ginger and white puss Charlie went out this morning and hasn’t come home.

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Meet a top author at Brownhills Library this afternoon!

Posted on April 28, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

Naomi Jones, Area Librarian from Brownhills Library at the Parkview Centre has been in touch to ask if I could give a belated plug for a meet the author event happening today.
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Ferrie cross the Ogley

Posted on June 4, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Tony Wynn – a man who’s previously helped with matters relating to the Ralph Ferrie story here on the Brownhills Blog – sent me the above, wonderful image today, with a covering note.
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