Subscribe to Blog via Email
Join 959 other subscribers-
Search the blog:
Top Posts & Pages
Archives
#365daysofbiking JournalActivism
Blogs & Stuff I like
Cycle stuff
Funny stuff
Local History
Local press
Local sites
Urban Exploration
Blog Stats
- 7,686,023 hits
Recent tracks
Yesterday's FootprintsJunkboy8 hours ago
FulfilJunkboy8 hours ago
ShokaJunkboy8 hours ago
Rayleigh LanesJunkboy8 hours ago
A Chance EncounterJunkboy8 hours ago
Sweetheart of the EstuaryJunkboy8 hours ago
The Lower QuarterJunkboy8 hours ago
Cluniac Monks of Prittlewell PrioryJunkboy8 hours ago
Trains, Trees, TopophiliaJunkboy8 hours ago
Old Camera, New FilmJunkboy8 hours agoRecent Comments
Kevin Wilford on Mount Zion Sunday School Anniv… chrisjimallen on Down the tubes bravelyd03ee3c14f on Celebrating a Jubilee? bravelyd03ee3c14f on Celebrating a Jubilee? Nathan on Raising damp
Tag Archives: Hoard
Local history events this week
Kate Cardigan Gomez from the wonderful Lichfield Lore is really going some with her local history group, Lichfield Discovered – in the next week they have two events, one of which is tonight, and on an appropriate Great War theme, with author Joss Musgrave Knibb.

Posted in Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged 10th November, 15th December, 2014, Archeology, Book, Brewood, cells, Channock Chase, Discovered, event, Events, Facebook, First Lines, First World War, Gaol, Great War, Guildhall, Hoard, Joss Musgrove Knibb, Kate Gomez, Library, Lichfield, local blogs, Local History, Lore, Messines, Model, New Photos, November 11th, Panoramio, Peter Pedro Cutler, poety, prison, Saturday, Staffordshire, Stephen Dean, Talk, Things to do, Twitter, WW1
Leave a comment
The mystery of The Lost Stonnall Hoard
That there [Howmuch?] has found treasure. He actually found it in a charity bookshop in Lichfield, but his golden find actually pointed to a farmyard near Grove Hill, near Lower Stonnall/Thornes, in 1824. There was bronze in that there hill.
Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Fun stuff to see and do, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 1824, Archeology, Bronze age, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, burial, David Cooms, Events, Find, finds, Gainsborough hill Farm, Greenborough, Hoard, Lichfield and South Staffordshire Archeological and Historical Society, Lily Chetty, local blogs, Local History, SGrove Hill, Shire Oak, Silly, Staffordshire, Stonnall, Things to do, Walsall Wood
29 Comments
Staffordshire Hoard public meeting tonight!
The Clayhanger Kid – perhaps better known to readers of The Brownhills Blog as Brian Stringer is, with other interested parties, tonight holding a public meeting about the Staffordshire Hoard at the Parkview Centre in Brownhills, at 7pm. Brian initially … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, Local politics, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Council
Tagged Brian Stringer, Brownhills, Centre, della hooke, Gold, Hammerwich, Hoard, Lichfield, Parkview, Staffordshire, Walsall Council
17 Comments
A shout out to Hoard fans…
Spotted by The Edditer of Bloxwich Telegraph fame, the redoubtable Stuart Williams, I’d like to point out the following program coming up tonight at 8:00pm on BBC 2. It’s got Dan Snow narrating, so should be a decent way to … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community
Tagged BBC 2, BDan Snow, Bloxwich Telegraph, Brian Stringer, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Hoard, Local History, monument, Ogley Hay, Staffordshire, Stuart Willianms
7 Comments
RSS - Posts