MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dear Visitor, since the Society was established late in 1967 the First issue of the Blackcountryman magazine was published in 1967. This tradition has been continued and you will therefore find all Issues numbered 1 in the year before the following issues 2,3 and 4. If you have any queries please contact the society and we will be pleased to help with your enquiry.
2004
ISSUE 1
Black Country Personalities - John Scott Allen - S. Hill
Hill Top School (Pt1) - Dr. D. Thomas
Avoiding the 'Bitterness' of Party Strife
borough Politics in Wolverhampton 1848-88 - Dr. J. Smith
Eric Brett Young - M. Hall
Comparisons at School - Family History - B. Dakin
Robert Plot and the Black Country - Dr. J. Lester
Getting Steamed Up about Black Country Boilers - T. Lodge
Schooldays? - the Happiest Days? - O. Rose
Homer Bros. Foster Mother Specialists - R.F. Homer
Disappearing Brierley Hill in Pictures - R. Jones
The Watch Night Service - N. Johnson
The Twelve (Black Country) Days of Christmas - P.G. Jones
To Tea or Not To Tea - A. Truby
Jamaican English in the Black Country - J. Biddulph
Documenting the Workshop of the World - P. Evans
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree - A. Dunphy OBE
Merry Hill 123 - 'Inky'
Peter Skidmore (RIP) - S. Hill
Further Memories of Hill Top - O. Coley
W. Midlands N Gauge Model Railway Club - K. Jones
The End of the Earth - J.B. Nicholls
2005
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities - Paul Bloomer - S. Hill
BIP-Pioneers in Plastics - M. Butler
Ocker Hill-How it got its Name - D. Humphries
Something about Anniversaries - N. Williams
More Memories of the Farley Clock Tower - Dr. A.J. Mason
In the Beginning - M. Round
The Bottoms outa the Truck - J. Wood
Hill Top School Pt2 - Dr. D. Thomas
Bilston Beginnings - M. Jarrett
Pills & Potions 'Who's Who in Wolv - A. Dunphy & M. Miller
Rediscovering William Shenstone - A. Duggan
Memories of Bilston - R. Price
Corbett Hospital, 3d a Week - P. Taylor
Coming of Age, Letters from Gallipoli, 1915 - P. Wright-Thompson
Infants & Junior School - R. Jones
The Origins of Holt Road School, Blackheath - M. Homer
From Boy Scout to Sutherland Flying Boat Pilot - B. Riley/P. Dunn
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities - John Parker - S. Hill
Crash Landing at Brierley Hill, 3.30am, 167 March 1944 - K. Russell
Wednesbury Pendant Mystery
Honest Tom Parker, the Unsung Hero - B. Parker
The Church Hall, St. Bartholemews, Penn - A. Dunphy
Worcestershire Salt & the Black Country Salt Men Pt1 - M. Dallow
Pollution History of Black Country Streams - T. Langford
Wordsley World War II Air Defence Mystery - D. Cox
Baggeridge Colliery Commemorative Medal - M. Pearson
Sundials in the Black Country - J. Lester
Senior School - R. Jones
In at the Beginnings - G. Bubb
Black Country Dialect and Nicknames 1861 - E. Jenkins
The Brickie - A.J. Haywood
An Maria Bannister (nee Smith) 1877-1964 - I.M. Andrews
Baleful Bleats of a Black Country Boy 1926 - A. Truby
Black Country Dystopia: John Pettys -The Last Refuge- P. McDonald
Iron Links - C. Higgs
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - Ralph Meanley, Baritone - S. Hill
Shakespears Granddaughter & the Bagleys of Dudley - J. Taplin
Romance & Excitement amoung the Cabbages - D. Bird
Varnished Leaves - History of the Manders - M. Pearson
Ivy Round - D. Winterburn
The Poetry of John Cornfield - P. McDonald
Blue Ribbon Mission - N. Williams
Godly Cleanliness - Robert Spear Hudson - N. Lemon
The Hole in the Ground Where a Hole Don't Belong - P. Talbot
Eldon Firmstone of Wordsley Manor - T. Rogers
Nine Black Country Artists - R. Perry
Culture Alive - B. Dakin
Black Country & the Industrial Revolution - J.S. Allen
Worcestershire Salt & the BlackCountry Saltmen Pt2 - M. Dallow
Visiting Sleipnir - J. Biddulph
Play - R. Jones
A Crown for Staffordshire - D. Mannering
Black Country Weeds - K. Brown
Canada comes to Penn - A. Dunphy OBE
2005
ISSUE 1
Black Country Personalities - Dennis Masters - S. Hill
Shakespeare's Granddaughter & the Bagleys of Dudley - J. Taplin
When is a Fossil Fuel not a Fossil Fuel? It's Coal - B. Hart
The Man Who Sang of Iron-John Evans Poetry - P. McDonald
Worcesters Salt & the Black Country Saltmen Pt2 - M. Dallow
Homes for The Poor - N. Williams
Sunday School - R. Jones
Rock Music? - A. Truby
The Black Country Museum - R. Julian
Jim Boulton (RIP) - S. Hill
A Crown for Staffordshire (excerpt 2) - D. Mannering
Pop in Cradley Heath - A.J. Hayward
I am My Voice & My Voice is Me - B. Dakin
The Story of Two Tipton Chirches - J. Allen
Those Spectacular Press Balls and How We Got to See
The Editor's Red Braces - J. Beck
James Whale Letter to Ivo Shaw
The History of Your Famil or Your Family History (I) - M. Pearson
Kathleen Ferrier's Concerts in the Black Country - M. Jones
2006
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities - Fred Willetts - S. Hill
Shakespeare's Granddaughter & the Bagley's of Dudley(III) - J. Taplin
The First Schoolboy International - T. Harrison
The Early History of the Horseley Co., Tipton - J. Allen
John Kilburn - The Gt. Barr Nightingale - P. McDonald
Sedgley and the Pen Industry - D. Humphries
I Can Reach Through the Usual Challenges - J.A. Davis
Dudley Zoo - R. Jones
Beeches Road School, West Bromwich - A. Truby
Baron Bilston of Bilston - M. Pearson
A Crown for Staffordshire (excerpt III) - D. Mannering
Master Craftsman or just the Master (Major Nicholls) - A. Smith
A Long Road to the Air Race - R. Hart
WH Peplows - Clockmakers, Silversmiths & Jewellers of
Stourbridge and Worcester - M. Dallow
The History of Your Family or Your Family in History Pt2 - M. Pearson
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities - Derek Hemming - S. Hill
The Walsall Bombs - J. Harper
Master Craftsman or just the Master? (Major Nicholls) pt2 - A. Smith
The Old Lady and the Doctor's Muse: Life and Works
of Frank Layton - P. McDonald
Memories of a Six Year Old Evacuee from Smethwick - A. Taylor
Going to the Pictures - R. Jones
Burne Jones, Baldwins and the Black Country - D. Cox
A Notion of Territory - A Social Change - B. Dakin
Gunners Bombarded - T. Harrison
Brierley Hill Men Meet UP IN Aftrica - C. Day
'When Everyone Knew and Respected the Local Paper's
District Men - J. Beck
Yet Another Side of Dud Dudley - M.White
It All Seemed So Unfair at the Time - D. Mannering
Memories of Dudley Grammar School - D Southall
A True Blast from the Past - A. Truby
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - Michael Joseph Coyle - S. Hill
G. I. Bride - B.M. Meador
The Missing Tenant of Wollaston Hall - J. Byard-Jones
Any Glass by Chance - D. Encill
Westwood & Wright, Memories of the Gas Valve
manufacturer - T. Hollinshead
My 1948 Lawnmower - A Frustrating Friend - S. Eveson
How I Remember the Pictures in Brierley Hill - P. Taylor
The Empire Picture House, Dudley.
Visit of His Majesty's Grenadier Guards Band - M. Crowther
Are Black Country People Thick? - R. Jones
Master Craftsman or Just the Master
(Major Nichols) Pt3 - A. Smith
A Day by the Sea - A. Truby
New Doors Ode Fodes - B. Spakemon
The Life of Mary Percy Jackson - L.D. Wilkie
Fires in the Shows - N. Williams
A Window in Time - B. Hart
In Defence of Walsall Poetry:
Arthur Brockhurst & Alfred Moss - P. McDonald
The White Feather - M. Dallow
Milestones of Black Country History - D. Humphries
George Borwick of Baking Powder Fame - N. Lemon
The Forger's Black Art - S.J. Millward