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Albright Boys Class of 1947
Schooldays in the post-war period
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May 27, 2026
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Remembering those murdered in Poland at the Katyn memorial
SINCE 1979, a corner of Cannock Chase has witnessed a special memorial service for an estimated 25,000 Poles murdered in 1940 by the Soviet NKVD secret police in Katyn Forest, Poland, between March and May 1940.
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May 27, 2026
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Stellar line-up for this year's free Dudley Writers' Festival
BESTSELLING authors from a wide range of genres will be talking to audiences about their work during this year’s Dudley Writers’ Festival.
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May 27, 2026
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Discover heroes of the air this half term
THIS May half term the RAF Museum Midlands, at Cosford, is offering a guaranteed great family day out.
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May 27, 2026
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Nostalgic return for former brewery worker Stuart
A FORMER M&B employee who spent more than three decades at the historic Springfield Brewery in Wolverhampton has returned to the site where his working life began - now transformed into the University of Wolverhampton’s Springfield Campus.
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May 20, 2026
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A happy childhood in the shadow of The Hawthorns
Fun times in the fifties, from schooldays to starting work
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May 20, 2026
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Fares please ... all aboard the trolley bus in 1950
THESE days you'll only see a trolley bus at the Black Country Living Museum - and thankfully the system is set to begin its trundles once again around the Dudley attraction, after several years out of action.
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May 13, 2026
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Town v City in Hunt Cup final
DUDLEY
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May 13, 2026
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Fairy folk of Beeches Rd
OUR thanks to reader Su Handford for sending us this week’s front page photograph.
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May 13, 2026
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Glassworks restoration talk at Blackheath history meeting
FOLLOWING on from April's informative and engaging talk by Henry Chance on the History of the Chance Brothers Glassworks and the Chance family, which was attended by a number of people whose family members had worked at the company, Blackheath and Rowley Local Interest Group would like to invite everyone to a follow up talk - 'The Restoration of the Glassworks Building'.
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May 13, 2026
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How you can help protect our endangered birds this spring
SPRING has well and truly sprung, and with it comes a great opportunity for people to get outside and explore some of the idyllic countryside the Midlands has to offer.
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May 13, 2026
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A young David Attenborough spends the day in Dudley
IT seems like he's been around forever - and you'd have to go back quite a way to remember a time before Sir David Attenborough was a household name.
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May 06, 2026
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Writers group launch anthology
CASTLE Writers Dudley will be launching their 2026 anthology at Dudley Library on Thursday 7 May from 10am to 12pm.
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May 06, 2026
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Talk on Boulton, Watt and the Soho Foundry
THE next meeting of the Sedgley Local History Society takes place on Thursday 14th May at 7:30pm in St. Andrew’s Church, Bilston Street, Sedgley.
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May 06, 2026
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'England's Disgrace' - working day and night for starvation pay
CRADLEY
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April 22, 2026
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Linking the past and the future with electric travel
FROM the quiet hum of mid-century trolleybuses to the arrival of modern Metro trams, Dudley is once again becoming a place defined by electric transport.
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April 22, 2026
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Talk on Chance’s glass of Smethwick
BLACKHEATH and Rowley Local Interest Group would like to invite you to their April 2026 Talk - ‘A Short History of the Chance Bros Glassworks,’ given by Henry Chance.
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April 15, 2026
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From farm to futuristic shopping experience
IF you're old enough to remember the Merry Hill Centre opening, you probably still think of it as pretty new.
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April 15, 2026
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Town centre scenes in the '30s
WE go back the best part of a hundred years with these two photographs, of Walsall in the 1930s.
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April 15, 2026
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A new era on the Black Country cut
ON the front page this week is a rare image from the last days of the canals as an industrial highway.
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April 08, 2026
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Heading to the countryside
HERE'S a Black Country scene that despite the intervening years, you may still recognise.
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April 08, 2026
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Training up the next generation
THE lads assembled here would represent a decent-sized workforce by themselves - but these were just the apprentices.
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April 01, 2026
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City centre transformation set to advance in coming weeks
WORKS will begin in sections of Lichfield Street and Queen Square early in April, as delivery of the major £19million Wolverhampton city centre transformation scheme progresses.
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April 01, 2026
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A rare survivor – The Plough & Harrow
HE youngsters standing idly by on the front page (and in closeup here) would hardly recognise the town they grew up in - and neither would many of their contemporaries in any Black Country town you would care to name.
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April 01, 2026
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Bilston Carnival coming in summer
BILSTON will celebrate the return of its annual carnival on Saturday, July 4 with exciting plans announced for a bumper day of family fun.
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April 01, 2026
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Society to host talk about the bones beneath Worcester Cathedral
KIDDERMINSTER
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March 25, 2026
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They dug deep for the dark stuff
COAL - it’s what put the Black into the Black Country, with pits all over the region plunging into the earth for the black gold that powered the industrial revolution.
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March 25, 2026
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Empty factory finally comes down to make way for new house building
WALSALL Council's plans to breathe new life into long-abandoned brownfield sites in Willenhall have taken a big step forward, with full demolition of the old Legge factory completed last week.
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March 25, 2026
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Robins hope to retain Hunt Cup
DUDLEY
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March 25, 2026
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Walsall firm produced a masterpiece for an Indian Maharajah in 1905
OUR thanks to Roy Page for sending us two wonderful photographs and the accompanying explanation of what was, by any definition, a masterpiece of the coachbuilder's art.
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