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Tag Archives: Leicestershire
Kirby’s mud diggers bury The Wood
Sadly, no pre-Christmas cheer for Walsall Wood as Leicestershire team Kirby Muxloe roundly defeated them in their away match yesterday (20th December 2014).
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 20 December, 2014, 3-0, away, Bill Shaw, defeat, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, home, Kirby Mucloe, Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, Lichfield, match report, match review, Oak Park, Report, result, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Walsall Wood away at Kirby Muxloe this afternoon
This afternoon, Saturday 20th December 2014: Walsall Wood FC away at Kirby Muxloe!
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Tagged 20 December, 2014, away, Events, FC, football, Footy, Good of the Wood, Kirby Mucloe, Leicestershire, Lichfield, soccer, Things to do, Walsall Wood, Walsall WOod FC
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Sharing the knowledge
Contributor and mainstay of the Brownhills Blog Andy Dennis has written to me, to point out some work he’s done on a story for another local history site – Andy has researched a mine explosion involving some of his relatives in the Moira Bath Pit in Leicestershire in 1845. It’s harrowing stuff, but fascinating.
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Tagged 1845, Andy Dennis, Bath Pit, colliery, Disaster, Fionn's Mining Site, historian, history, Leicestershire, mine, Moira, Staffordshire
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