Tag Archives: Martin

Down with the yoot – but watch out for the Teds

Posted on February 2, 2014 by BrownhillsBob

The irrepressible Mike Stackhouse contacted me a week or so with an interesting comment that may well stir memories of the postwar kids in our midst – Mike was inspired himself by the recent interest in those lost green gems, Harpers Busses.

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Power to the people

Posted on August 13, 2013 by BrownhillsBob

I’ve had a couple of great responses to my request for material on Walsall’s lost power station that existed at Reedswood, until it’s demolition in the late 1980s.

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In God we trust

Posted on September 4, 2011 by BrownhillsBob

David Evans – top contributor and one of the Brownhills Blog’s top correspondents in Walsall Wood – has again sent me some excellent scans from the Ebenezer Church commerative booklet. There’s been a fantastic response to these wonderful scans, and I’m … Continue reading →

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