Tag Archives: Chase Terrace

Miss Hall’s girls

Posted on December 29, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

by reader Mandy Cockram, whose mother went to Ogley Hay Girls School in Brownhills in the e

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The Lectric Men

Posted on June 21, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

Old friend of the blog Reg ‘Aer Reg’ Fullelove has been at it again – and this time, he’s written a fabulous piece on his early working days as an electricity supply engineer for the Chasetown Electricity Board, in the very earliest days of domestic supply.
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The need for speed

Posted on January 26, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

It seems that reader Tony Winn opened an interesting can of worms when he set this fine question for the New Year Quiz.
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Controlled explosions in Burntwood today

Posted on December 31, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Blimey, it’s all happening today – it seems some unexploded wartime grenades were found near Chasewater Industrial Estate, Burntwood (Known as the LCP) in the last 24 hours, which were subsequently destroyed in a controlled explosion.
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Methods of dance

Posted on March 16, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

Here’s a great follow-on post to the Ogley School staff image featured here last weekend. Top reader and local historian Andy Dennis has sent me a couple of lovely school group photos featuring his mother, thought to be from the 1936 sports event at Chase Terrace, which was mentioned by Peter ‘Pedro’ Cutler in comments to the same post.

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Curious electric

Posted on November 25, 2012 by BrownhillsBob

It’s a curious fact of local history that little St. Anne’s Church, in Church Street, Chasetown, was the first church in Britain lit by electric light. The history of this installation, and of electricity coming to Chasewtown and Brownhills is inextricably tied up with the history of mining in the area.
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