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Tag Archives: The Graphic
Nailed it
Posted in Bad Science, Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, It makes me mad!, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 1880, a, AJP Photography, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Local History, Maker, Nail, Nailer, New Photos, Pedro, Peter Cutler, Shop, Staffordshire, The Graphic, Tony Parsons, Walsall, Walsall Wood, Women
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Puddled
We have talked a lot recently about the Birchills Ironworks, Talbot Stead Tube Works (latterly Sterling Tubes), and have ruminated on the nature of metal bashing and other industry – in his initial perusal of The Graphic, Peter spotted the following article relating to metal production in Cleveland, and I think it’s worth a read.
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Environment, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 1878, Abbey England, Birchills, Brass, Brownhills, casting, Castings PLC, Cleveland, David Evans, Foundy, industry, iron, Kirkpatick, local blogs, Local History, New Photos, ore, Pedro, Peter Cutler, process, Puddling, Staffordshire, steel, The Graphic, Things to do, Vulcans vassals, Walsall
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As far distant as the millennium
Found coincidentally to reader Alan Harvey’s request for more Norton Canes, this article on the village, from the Saturday, 30th January 1886 copy of The Graphic, is a remarkable travelogue written by a visitor to a small, dirt-poor community, just before everything changed.
Posted in Churches, Environment, Followups, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged 1886, Alan Harvey, change, coal, community, Conduit Colliery, hardship, In a Staffordshire village, Lichfield, Local History, mining, Norton Canes, Old maps, Pedro, Peter Cutler, Poverty, Staffordshire, The Graphic
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An overwhelming sense of duty
Sister Dora is a beloved, dear heroine of Walsall; remembered long after her passing, she is a local heroine whose memory shines like a light in the grim, darkened industrial past of Walsall – her statue – finally restored to it’s rightful place on The Bridge, in the town centre – still sees regular laying of flowers and visits by those interested in the remarkable history it records.
Posted in Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community, Walsall Council
Tagged 1886, Birchills, death, Dortothy Pattison, early, Explosion, industrial accidents, injury, Iron Works, Local History, London, New Photos, nursing, October, Pedro, Peter Cutler, Queen Street, Sister Dora, Staffordshire, Statue, The Bridge, The Graphic, Walsall, Walsall Council
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