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Tag Archives: Working mens club
Dropping a Cla’nger
Friend of the blog, community activist and Clayhanger Kid himself, Brian Stringer has sent the above image of the members of Clayhanger Working Men’s Club around 1953, and is trying to identify as many people in the picture as he can.
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web, Walsall community
Tagged 1953, Brian Stringer, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Brownhills stuff, Clayhange, Clayhanger, Clayhanger Kid II, Clayhanger Kid Two, Clayhanger stuff, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, local blogs, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared memories, Social media, Staffordshire, The Clayhanger Kid, Walsall community, Working mens club
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Ticket to ride
A lovely enquiry for the Bank Holiday weekend came in a couple of days ago courtesy of reader Lawrence Hodgkinson, who has submitted a beautiful scan of a rather unusual ticket stub from a railway special excursion in 1952.
Posted in Brownhills stuff, Clayhanger stuff, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared memories
Tagged 1952, 2015, August, BootomClub, Brownhillls, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Clayhanger, club, Colony Bay, excursion, House, Laurence Hodgkinson, Laurence Hodkinson, Lichfield, Local History, Mens, Middle, Middleton, New Photos, Rail, Railway, Sanseis, Shire Oak, Special, Staffordshire, Stub, Things to do, ticker, ticket, Top, Walsall Wood, WMC, working, Working mens club
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Team work?
Here’s an odd little one for the football buffs. I know very little about this clipping other than the text that accompanies it. Reader Dave sent it me a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been trying to fit it … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Events, Features, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Walsall community
Tagged Dave, David, Events, football, Footy, High Heath, Local History, New Photos, Observer, Pubs, Redevelopment, Shelfield, soccer, Staffordshire, team, Tom Price, Walsall, Walsall Wood, WMC, Working mens club
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Paradise lost… then found again.
Today, I received my very own copy of the excellent work, ‘Brownhills: A Walk Into History with Gerald Reece’. Up to know, I’ve been managing with photocopies and scans of critical parts of the work, and fortunately, a book search … Continue reading
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Tagged A Walk Into History, Brownhills, Brownhills local history, Coffee House, Derelict, Gerald Reece, Huntsman, Lichfield Road, Local History, New Photos, Plumbers Paradise, Pubs, RA Bennett, Rabtherm, Redevelopment, Smithys Forge, Sportsman, Working mens club
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