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Tag Archives: Grange Farm
The Sunday papers…
Pedro Cutler has been a bit of a whizz of late with the newspaper archives. It seems he’s been scouring the old editions of the Lichfield Mercury for Walsall Wood relevant news. More to follow. He’s found some great snippets, … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Churches, Environment, Features, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged Brownhills, Brownhills local history, drowning, Frederick Lowe, Grange Farm, Highfields Farm, Horse and Jockey, James Edward Ball, John Bryan, Lichfield Mercury, local blogs, Local History, Pedro Cutler, Staffordshire, Walsall Wood, Wesleyan Church, Winterton & Sons
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Stag do
Had a lovely email this morning from regular reader and commenter Caz, who’s a great appreciator of the local deer population. She’s supplied some lovely photos of a young stag she spotted on the driveway to the waterworks in Green … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Events, Features, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff, Wildlife
Tagged Brownhills, Caz, Clayhanger, Grange Farm, Green Lane, New Photos, Red deer, Stag, Walsall Wood, Waterworks, Wildlife
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Oh, deer!
I spotted a great article on a blog I’ve been following for a while. It’s a local blog by a lady known only as Jody, and it contains lovely, engaging reports of her walks and rambles, mainly around the Clayhanger … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local Blogs, Local media, News, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff, Wildlife
Tagged Brownhills, Chaz Mason, Clayhanger, Grange Farm, Jody, Jodysnaturewalks, local blogs, New Photos, Red deer, Walsall Wood, Wildlife, Wildlife blog
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A Filthy business
Paul Ford, researcher at Walsall Local History Centre and top blog contributor has once again excelled himself and ferreted out a top piece of local history from Walsall’s extensive archives. Paul has kindly offered to make this a reasonably frequent … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Features, Followups, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Council
Tagged Albert Henry Snape, Albert Paley, Arthur John Snape, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Brownhills UDC, Brownhills Urban District Council, Bullings Heath, Clayhanger sewage works, effluent, Emma Snape, Grange Farm, Local History, Paul Ford, pollution, Public analysts laboratory, Samuel Brawn, sewage, Staffordshire, UDC, Walsall, Walsall Council, Walsall Local History Centre, Walsall Wood, Walsall Wood Sewage Works, William Thomas Edwards
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