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Tag Archives: Leicester
Aylestone nail ailing Wood
I was surprised and delighted when yesterday this match report from last Saturday’s Walsall Wood away friendly against Aylestone Park FC dropped into my mailbox from the theoretically retired football correspondent Bill Shaw.
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2017, 29 July, away, Aylestone park, Bill Shaw, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Leicester, Oak Park, Report, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Walsall Wood away at Aylestone this afternoon!
Catch Walsall Wood in away action this afternoon at Aylestone Park!
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2017, 29 July, away, Aylestone park, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Leicester, Oak Park, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Walsall Wood footy home and away this afternoon!
There’s football action away and at Oak Park this afternoon – why not check it out?
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2017, 28 January, Alphabetical Lichfield, away, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Leicester, Oak Park, Reserves, soccer, St Andrews, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Grand Boxing Day derby – Walsall Wood FC against St. Andrews this afternoon!
Catch Walsall Wood FC in action at Oak Park against newcomers St. Andrews for a Boxing Day treat this afternoon!
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2016, 26th December, boxing day, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Leicester, Oak Park, soccer, St Andrews, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Walsall Wood away at Bardon Hill this afternoon!
Your chance to catch Walsall Wood in action away at Bardon Hill FC this afternoon!
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2016, 27 February, away, Bardon, Bardon Hill, Clocse, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, Leicester, Lichfield, Saturday, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood
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Caters: a Brownhills business remembered
Following the sad announcement of the passing of Michael Cater, formerly of the FW Cater electrical shop in Brownhills, I had a couple of lovely contributions in memory of this wonderful, but lost Brownhills business. Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Events, Interesting photos, It makes me mad!, Local Blogs, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Walsall community
Tagged 13 October, 2015, arrangements, audio-visual, Brownhills, brownhills george, cancer, Cater, condolences, death, electrical, Events, funeral, Gilmorton, Leicester, Martin Littler, memorial, memorium, Michael, passing, Prostate, rest in peace, Round Table, Shop, Vicky, Woolston
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Funeral arrangements for Michael Cater
I have been contacted by Vicky Woolston who has informed me of some very sad news: the passing of Michael Cater, who ran a very longstanding electrical and audio store in Brownhills for years – Caters.
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Events, Interesting photos, It makes me mad!, Local Blogs, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Walsall community
Tagged 13 October, 2015, arrangements, audio-visual, Brownhills, cancer, Cater, condolences, death, electrical, Events, funeral, Gilmorton, Leicester, memorial, memorium, Michael, passing, Prostate, rest in peace, Round Table, Shop, Vicky, Woolston
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Walsall Wood away to Hinckley at Heather today!
This afternoon, Saturday 15th August 2015: Walsall Wood FC away to Hinckley
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Tagged 15th Augustt, 2015, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, Heather, Hinckley, home, Home match, Leicester, Lichfield, new season, Saturday, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood
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New season opens with Walsall Wood playing Bardon Hill at Oak Park this afternoon!
Your chance to watch Walsall Wood battle Leicestershire’s Bardon hill FC at Oak Park this afternoon (8th August 2015)…
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Tagged 2015, 8 August, Bardon Hill, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Home match, Leicester, Lichfield, new season, Saturday, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood
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Sweet James
That there Clive Roberts – documenter of the history of the Shire Oak Inn and collector of local postcards – has been at it again He’s picked up another postcard of Brownhills at a fair, and mailed me scans of the front and back to post here on the blog.
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Cannock Chase, Churches, Environment, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories
Tagged AW Bourne, Bill, Bramford, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, camp, Cannock Chase, Church, Derek Porter, Leicester, Local History, New Photos, Ogley Hay, parish, Postcard, Redevelopment, Road, School, St James, Staffordshire, Things to do
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Rubbish service?
Following the furore on social media over the last week, Dan Slee, press officer at Walsall Council offered the following press statement on the question of the controversial recycling leaflets currently being distributed to homes in Walsall Borough. I’ll let … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Science, Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, It makes me mad!, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local media, Local politics, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Council, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged Aldridge, Brownhills, Casepack, changes, Cheap tat, Common people, Facebook, Greenstar, Jayne Howarth, Leaflet, Leicester, local blogs, Local politics, Paul Daniel, Press Office, press release, Recycling, Refuse, rubbish, Silly, Social media, The YamYam, Twitter, Walsall, Walsall Council, Walsall politics
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