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Teenager Levi found safe and well, thank you all!
I’m asking readers if you could please look out for the lad pictured above, whose name is Levi Smith, he’s 15 years old and lives in the Shire Oak area of Brownhills.
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Events, Express & Star, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community
Tagged 2 March, 2018, adhd, appeal, Bloxwich, boy, Brownhills, David McGregor, Diane, lad, Levi, Lost, missing, Missing People, Smith, teenager, vulnerable, Walsall, West Midlands Police
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Don’t tell him, Fullelove!
Last week, the young David Evans spent an afternoon of tea, cake and conversation with Reg, who remembers his father David Fullelove being a member of the Local Defence Volunteers. The LDV later evolved into the Home Guard
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Features, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 32Nd (Aldridge) Battalion, Aldridge Home Guard, Arblaster, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, David Evans, David Fullelove, Edgar Pritchard, Fred Bowen, Fred Heath, Jack Brewe, Len Sadler, local blogs, Local History, Maddox, Mason, Memories of Brownhills Past, Mycock, New Photos, Norman Waine, Oakley, Reg Fullelove, Smith, South Staffordshire Home Guard, Staffordshire, Walsall Wood, Walsall Wood football club, Walsall Wood Home Guard, Yewall
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What was lost, now restored
I am indebted to a Burnell yet again, as top chap and fellow cyclist Richard contacts me and points out something he noticed that I didn’t – Bullings Heath Grove is now a real place, with street signs and everything.
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, cycling, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged alehouse, beer house, Black Cock, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Bullings Heath, Bullings Heath Grove, Camden Street, Canal, Cawarden, close, Councillor, David Evans, Demolition, Derelict, Events, Green Lane, Hall Lane, Hillary Little, Local History, Mike Flower, New Photos, newbuild, old inn, Old maps, Pepper Alley, Pubs, Richard Burnell, Royal Oak, Smith, Staffordshire, street names, Walsall Wood
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The end and the beginning
Thanks to several people including reader and friend of the blog Caz and the Young David Evans who’ve both pointed out that the former Royal Oak in Bullings Heath, Walsall Wood, is currently being demolished.
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Tagged alehouse, beer house, Black Cock, Black Cock Bridge, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Bullings Heath, Camden Street, Canal, Cawarden, close, David Evans, Demolition, Derelict, Events, Goblin Pit, Green Lane, Hall Lane, Hillary Little, Local History, New Photos, newbuild, old inn, Old maps, Pepper Alley, Pubs, Ron, Royal Oak, Smith, Staffordshire, Val, Walsall Wood
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To protect and serve
Had a thought-provoking article from David Evans last week. Can anyone help? The blessing of a chat over a cup of tea with a good friend, perhaps? In one of the recent blogs, Guard of Honour, which appeared on November … Continue reading
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Tagged 32Nd (Aldridge) Battalion, Aldridge Home Guard, Arblaster, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, David Evans, local blogs, Local History, Memories of Brownhills Past, Mycock, New Photos, Oakley, Smith, South Staffordshire Home Guard, Staffordshire, Walsall Wood, Walsall Wood football club, Walsall Wood Home Guard
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In God we trust
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
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Churches, Features, Followups, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged Beniston, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Bullock, Church trustees, Commemorative booklet, Cund, D Evans, David Evans, Dunning, Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Church, Evans, fifties, Higgs, Holland, Howells, Local History, Martin, Minister, New Photos, Oakley, Rowley, Smith, Staffordshire, Taylor, team, Trustees, Walker, Walsall Wood, Whitehouse
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A dying trade
You may remember that way back in February, I posted an article on the mysterious mortuary situated near Bullings Heath in Walsall Wood. The morgue in question had been mentioned by reader [CAZ], and subsequently spotted on a large-scale map of … Continue reading
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Features, Followups, Local History, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Brownhills UDC, Bullings Heath, Camden Street, Creswell, Derry, Green Lane, Harris, Local History, Morgue, Mortuary, Mr. Bullock, Old maps, Paul Ford, Research, Smith, Staffordshire, Twist, Walsall, Walsall Local History Centre, Walsall Observer
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