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Black Country Bugle
Festival of fun and music to celebrate the Black Country
WALSALL Arboretum will be the stage for a full day of live music and family fun at the Bostin' Black Country Bash on Saturday 5 July, bringing together a diverse line-up of local talent in celebration of the Black Country's rich cultural heritage.
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July 02, 2025
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Referee Harry finally ends the game after almost six decades in the shirt
He decides to call time on a career that began in the 1960s
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July 02, 2025
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Beware heat stroke danger of a hot dog
COOL IT: Try not to plan your walkies at the hottest part of the day
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June 25, 2025
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Nedda Ends An Era At Duport
With the recent retirement of Mr Thomas (Nedda) Bailey came the end of a remarkable 240 years' service by the Bailey family of Tividale to Duport Foundries Limited.
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June 25, 2025
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Poor Ode Joe
I knew Joe Brindley for only a few short years. I was but three or four years old when he taught me the Miner's Alphabet as I sat upon his knee, and I had barely entered my teens when he had gone forever.
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June 25, 2025
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Make scents
NOW'S THE TIME TO PLANT UP A PLOT OF PERFUMED PERFECTION
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June 25, 2025
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From West Brom head teacher to Smethwick MP
Controversy - and bombs – in the 1960s
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June 25, 2025
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COURT couture
LARA OWEN looks at the game-changing fashion on display at Wimbledon over the last 100 years
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June 25, 2025
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Ready to wield willow in 1953
This photograph from the archives takes us back to the middle of last century, and shows one of the most highly-regarded amateur cricket clubs.
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June 25, 2025
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West Bromwich watering holes from the mid-20th century
WE have here a couple of West Bromwich boozers - do you recognise them?
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June 25, 2025
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Fab four on the world stage
A QUARTET OF TEAMS FROM THE UK THAT HAVE WON THE FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP COMPETITION
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June 25, 2025
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Keziah Leaves the Street – a blast from the Bugle's past
BACK in the earliest days of the Bugle, had a roving reporter and writer of Black Country fiction, Albert Sargent.
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June 25, 2025
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SOMETHING IN THE CELLAR AT HAUNTED NETHERTON ALE-HOUSE!
Murder and hauntings walk hand in hand down the spooky corridors of The Supernatural, echoing the clamour of red and secret deeds which cry out from the dark chasms of eternity for recognition and justice. Like characters in some old melodrama, the shades of victim and slayer are trapped before phantom footlights on a stygian stage destined to play their ghoulish games until the final curtain of eternity falls.
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June 25, 2025
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Claude's photo album shows big turn-out for a local sports day
THE dapper young fellow on the left may be familiar to long-term readers of the Bugle, as he's made several appearances over the years.
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June 25, 2025
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Black Country Living Museum strikes gold at national award ceremony
THE Black Country Living Museum has triumphed in a national award ceremony, being awarded Gold for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year at the 2025 VisitEngland Awards for Excellence.
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June 25, 2025
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Albion Gen Required
At present I am taking preliminary steps towards compiling a full, detailed \"Encyclopedia\" of West Bromwich Albion Football Club, which, all being well, will be published in book form in mid-1979 to commemorate the club's centenary season.
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June 25, 2025
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Secondary School staff take time out of class to pose for pictures
HANDS up if you went to Kingswinford County Secondary School. If you were there in the late 1940s or ’50s, you will surely recognise a few of the faces in these two pictures.
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June 25, 2025
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'We were caned for being late back on a lunchtime' – school memories from the forties and fifties
Despite the discipline, Eunice has plenty of fond recollections
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June 18, 2025
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Independent retailers struggling to survive
A recent survey on retail crime and the illicit trade in tobacco and vape products carried out by Federation of Independent Retailers (the Fed) shows that the vast majority of those who responded are finding it harder to keep trading.
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June 18, 2025
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Blooming tasty
EDIBLE flowers are growing in popularity when it comes to kitchen gardens. No longer just for fine dining, they’re adding colour and character to cocktails, cakes, ice cubes, and savoury dishes alike.
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June 18, 2025
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Could womb risk kill dog?
I am unsure whether to have my 18-month-old mixed breed dog spayed. My vet advised that without the operation there is a risk of a womb infection in later life, which can be fatal without emergency treatment. What are the symptoms and how big a risk is it?
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June 18, 2025
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AVOCET RESET
SEABIRD'S NUMBERS CLIMBING AFTER SECOND WORLD WAR ALLOWED IT TO RE-ESTABLISH ITSELF IN THE UK
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June 18, 2025
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PC Payne came out of the crowd to run the line at Molineux
Local bobby went to watch the match, but when the referee was felled by a powerful shot from Johnny Hancocks, there was a gap that needed filling ...
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June 18, 2025
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Young fairies make their appearance at Midsummer
DESPITE the unusually warm spring, we're still waiting to see what kind of summer we're in for in these notoriously unpredictable islands.
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June 18, 2025
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Narrow gauge Welsh visitors to join fun at Severn Valley
Event celebrates two centuries since the dawn of the railways
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June 18, 2025
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Golden oldie
\"A DAY without laughter is a day wasted,\" Charlie Chaplin once pointed out.
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June 18, 2025
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Gathering dust in the Dead House - abandoned Sunbeam projects and a captured Zeppelin engine
AT last, the Air Ministry were kind, or so we thought, when an order was received to design and manufacture a V12-cylinder air cooled engine, the finned cylinders and heads of which would be enclosed in a thin sheet metal casing, and cooling air would be forced through by a fan.
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June 18, 2025
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How a Black Country diet helped Wellington's men defeat Napoleon at Waterloo
NAPOLEON, it has been claimed, declared that an army marches on its stomach.
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June 18, 2025
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Langley's kings of the green
PICTURED above, flushed with success, are the members of a bowling team from Langley, Oldbury, very nearly a hundred years ago.
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June 18, 2025
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More About Fearless Peckna!
Blasts from the Bugle's past ... 1975
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