BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Life in the northern wastes of Walsall
Skip to content
  • Home
  • Local quiz 1
  • Local quiz 2
  • Mylee Billingham, rest in peace
  • Walsall Wood 1871 Inclosure

Tag Archives: shrapnel

Explosive stuff

Posted on July 5, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

There’s a discussion currently ongoing in the background between contributors the the Brownhills blog about our area during wartime, and the kind of effect the Second World War had on Brownhills and the wider area as a whole – we’re interested primarily in what people remember, or stories they were told about air raids in the locality.
poster-blackout-bike Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr

Like this:

Like Loading…
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Cannock Chase, Chasewater, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff | Tagged air raid., Aldridge, Blackout, bomb, bombs, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Canal, Chasewater, Clayhanger, David Evans, Events, incendiary, Lichfield, local blogs, Local History, Norton Canes, Pelsall, Shire Oak, shrapnel, Staffordshire, Things to do, Walsall, Walsall Wood, war | 24 Comments
  • RSS feed RSS - Posts

    RSS feed RSS - Comments

  • Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 956 other subscribers
  • Search the blog:

  • Top Posts & Pages

    • In all the empty houses
    • Caught in time
    • Down your local - when Brownhills was a musical mecca
    • Military speaker to tell story of the South Staffords in the Great War
    • Coalmining in Brownhills, by Gerald Reece.
  • Archives

  • RSS #365daysofbiking Journal

    • #365daysofbiking Station to station: Left baggage
    • #365daysofbiking Slurry up
    • #365daysofbiking Season of the sunset
    • #365daysofbiking Don’t go
    • #365daysofbiking What makes this mine
    • #365daysofbiking Bridge to my heart
    • #365daysofbiking Shades of grey, shades of blue
    • #365daysofbiking On the skyline
  • Activism

    • Bad Science
    • Chasewater Wildlife
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
  • Blogs & Stuff I like

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Mad Old Baggage
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • PheaseyViews
    • Pigblog
    • PubBlog
    • Rachel Creative
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
    • The Plastic Hippo
    • The Yam Yam
  • Cycle stuff

    • Crazy guy on a bike
    • Sheldon Brown
    • The Bike Show
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Funny stuff

    • Doonesbury
    • XKCD
    • Yehuda Moon
  • Local History

    • All About Lichfield
    • Brownhills on Wikipedia
    • Burntwood Family History
    • Chasewaterstuff's Rail Blog
    • David Hodgkinson
    • Lichfield Lore
    • Oakparkrunner's Blog
    • Pubs of Brownhills
    • Sue Lote's Walsall Foreign
    • Tamworth Time Hikes
  • Local press

    • The Express and Star
  • Local sites

    • All About Lichfield
    • Burntwood Online
    • Clayhanger Marsh
    • Hammerwich Weather
    • Hammerwich Wildlife
    • Lichfield Live
    • Lichfield Lore
    • PheaseyViews
    • The Yam Yam
    • WV11 (Wednesfield)
  • Urban Exploration

    • Mechanised
    • Subterranea Britannica
    • urbex|uk
  • Blog Stats

    • 7,679,783 hits
  • Recent tracks

    Brownhills Bob
    Brownhills Bob
    BrownhillsBob
    371,243 Tracks
    Magdalena (Reprise)
    Magdalena (Reprise)
    Quantic
    12 minutes ago
    I'd Cry
    I'd Cry
    Quantic
    19 minutes ago
    Similau
    Similau
    Quantic
    21 minutes ago
    Road To Islay
    Road To Islay
    Quantic
    24 minutes ago
    Boogaloo 33
    Boogaloo 33
    Quantic
    28 minutes ago
    Su Suzy
    Su Suzy
    Quantic
    33 minutes ago
    Interlude
    Interlude
    Quantic
    34 minutes ago
    Una Tarde En Mariquita
    Una Tarde En Mariquita
    Quantic
    40 minutes ago
    I'll Keep My Light In My Window
    I'll Keep My Light In My Window
    Quantic
    45 minutes ago
    Magdalena
    Magdalena
    Quantic
    49 minutes ago
  • Recent Comments

    chrisjimallen on Down the tubes
    bravelyd03ee3c14f on Celebrating a Jubilee?
    bravelyd03ee3c14f on Celebrating a Jubilee?
    Nathan on Raising damp
    Steve Myatt on Off their trolleys
BrownhillsBob's Brownhills Blog
Powered by WordPress.com.
%d