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.
2016
ISSUE 1 (Volume 48)
Black Country Society 50 Years On - James Morgan
Lichfield Waterworks Trust - David Moore
Early Years in Darlaston (Part 1) - Mike Page
The Christmas Post - Bill Toynbee
Black Country Ramblings - Phil Clayton
1974 Pub Survey of Dudley Town Centre - Ian Jeavons
Rachael Heyhoe Flint OBE, DL
Home Made in Smethwick - Touring exhibition
A Gallery of Memories - Philip C Adams MA
Smethwick Summit Reduction 1788-1791 - Ray Shill
The Walsall Leather Museum - Michael Doyle
Some early Memories of the Black Country Society - Dr Trevor Raybould
Elsie’s Tale - James Morgan
1636 - When Richard Foley Faced Ruin - Roy Peacock
Alan Price (1929-2016) - Keith Hodgkins
JMW Turner’s Tour in Dudley (Part IV) - Brendan Clifford
Gunlock Makers of Wolverhampton - Mark R Cooper
Following The Towpath to the Past - Chris Turton
The Jensen Motor Company - Nick Maltby
Free events Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Black Country Society.
Memories are Made For Us - Mike Pearson
2017
ISSUE 2 (Volume 49)
The Jensen Motor Company (Part 2) - Nick Maltby
Meet The Committee of the Black Country Society.
Drinking, Brawling and Fighting at the Lye - Mary Bodfish
When Dudley Moved North - Alan Day
Quarry Bank: an Outsider’s View - Terry Church
Black Country Parish Boundaries: Echoes of Ancient Territory
(Part 1) - Dr Kevin James
Nightscape sees the Light of Day at Gallery
Early Years in Darlaston (from a child’s point of view) Part 2 - Mike Page
Black Country Ramblings: Along the Old Main Line - Phil Clayton
Rachael Heyhoe Flint update
Caeser Augustus Llewellyn Jenkyns - Terry Harrison
Noah’s Ark Blue Plaque
19th Century Ladymoor from Census Data - Jennifer Davies
Thomas Foley: The Fire of London 1666 & Old
Swinford Hospital - Roy Peacock
Railway Plaques: National Rail Museum, Delhi - David and Anne Bullock
Poem and glass news
The Euphrates Flyboat - Margaret Dallow
The Case For Wolverhampton - Nick Moss
May Myatt Recollections (1920-1975) - Nadine Cresswell-Myatt
ISSUE 3 (Volume 50)
Black Country Parish Boundaries: Echoes of Ancient Territory
(Part 2) - Dr Kevin James
Black Country Society 50th Anniversary Celebrations
Chance Brothers in New Zealand (Part 1) - Bill Toynbee
The Bickley Family and Trades in Bilston - Ray Shill
Thomas Monk of Lower Mitton and Tipton - Margaret Dallow
Euphrates and The Fly Boat (poem) - John Alan Davis
Euphrates Packet (song lyrics) - Phil Clayton
Fr. Francis Martyn (1782-1838) & the Mount, Walsall - Michael Doyle
The Black Country Society Reaches Fifty - Ned Williams
Major Investment for Multistory For Sandwell Arts Festival
From West Country to Black Country - Tony Ridge
Kewford Eagles Annual Football Tournament
Black Country Ramblings: Along the Old Main Line (Part 2) - Phil Clayton
Black Country History Day
Responses to Wolverhampton Article (5003)
A Day at Westfield - Graham Fisher MBE
Letters to Mary (Part 1) - Angus Dunphy OBE
Board Schools & their Appearance in the Lye & Wollescote
(Part 1) - Eric Pritchard
We Spake a Bit Different - Harry Taylor
Damage to Grave of VC Hero & Paving Stone Ceremony for VC
May Myatt (nee Hughes Recollections 1920-1955
(Part 2) - Nadine Cresswell-Myatt
Images of Dudley - Steve Burdett
ISSUE 4 (Volume 51)
May Myatt Recollections (1920-1975) Part 3 - Nadine Cresswell-Myatt
Story of William Russel at Lye Forge - Nigel Perry
Chance Bros in New Zealand Part 2 - Bill Toynbee
Board Schools in the Lye & Wollescote Part 2 - Eric Pritchard
When Steel in Dudley led to Brass & Gold up North - Alan Day
Black Country Ramblings along the Old Main Line Part 3 - Phil Clayton
A Woman called Peculiar - Mick Powis
Black Country History Day 2017 - Judith Watkin
Harold Hassall - Stan Hill
Planning the Future in 1948 - Dr Trevor Raybould
Letters to Mary Part 2 - Angus Dunphy
Elihu Burritt (American view of Victorian England) - Brian Conduit
Lord Cobham opens Dudley Police Buildings & Fire Station-Mike Pearson
The West Bromwich Gas Showroom - Black Country Museum
Cedric Hardwicke (an Actor at War) - Roy Peacock
The Irish and Wednesbury - Michael Doyle
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh - Ian Jeavons
Visit to Honesdale, Pennsylvania
(Home of the Stourbridge Lion) - Mike Pearson
2017
ISSUE 1 (Vol 51)
May Mayatt Recollections (1920-1975) Pt 3 - Nadine Cresswell Myatt
William Russell at Lye Forge & the iron industry - Nigel Perry
Chance Bros in New Zealand Pt2 - Bill Toynbee
Intl. Festival of Glass
Board Schools in Lye & Wollescote Pt2 - Eric Pritchard
When Steel in Dudley, Brass & Gold up North - Alan Day
Ramblings along the Old Main Line Pt3 - Phil Clayton
A Woman called Peculiar - Mick Powis
Blk Country History Day 2017 - Judith Watkin
Harold Hassall - Stan Hill
Planning the future in 1948 - Dr Trevor Raybould
Letters to Mary Pt2 - Angus Dunphy
Elihu Burritt (an American view of Victorian England) - Brian Conduit
Cedric Hardwicke, actor at war - Roy Peacock
The Irish & Wednesbury - Michael Doyle
Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh - Ian Jeavons
Stourbridge Lion - Mike Pearson
2018
ISSUE 2
The story of William Russell - Nigel Perry
Blk Country Ramblings along the Old Main Line Pt4 - Phil Clayton
Erdeswick & the Black Country - Dr John Lester
Arthur Proudler 9yrs at Aston Villa for 1 game - Terry Church
The Royal visit to Wolverhampton - Ned Williams
South Africa Railway Plates - David Bullock
Eli Adams(Blk Country Story Teller) - Philip Adams
Jerry the Shetland - Eli Adams
Midlife Identity Crisis (I am or Ay I a Blk Country man) - Chris Turton
When Dudley moved North Pt2 - Alan Day
The Bilston Madhouses - Dr Leonard Smith
I Have Got a Medal - James Measell
Early Years of the W. Smethwick Male Voice Choir - B Toynbee
Billinghams on the move - Clive & Gary Billingham
There's no such thing as can't - Martyn Round
JA Barnsby & Sons - Michael Doyle
New Celebratory Installation in Kingswinford - Graham Fisher MBE
Mount St Primary School Memories - Terence S. Hyde
Kewford Eagles - Ian Pound
ISSUE 3
The munifluence of Joseph Guest & a Trowel in the Loft - Dave Kerr
A Mystery at the Delph - Ned Williams
Tom Harris, the boy who missed the Cup Final- Terry Church
A Racing Uncertainty - David Walker
Emanuel Bowen & the Black Country - John Lester
A Coseley Examination - Matt Mills
Blk Country Ramblings along the Old Main Line Pt5 - Phil Clayton
2 Schools that nearly didn't open - Trevor Rogers
Chance Bros. Interplanetary Project - Bill Toynbee
Black Country Spitfires - Peter Glews
BCLM Forging Ahead - Simon Briercliffe
Planning for the Future - George Moran
The Black Country Workhouse - Edward Davies
My Mother Told Me (vocabulary) - Chris Turton
Joey Tortoise makes a dash for Freedom - Stan Hill
Was it Really So? - Keith Robinson
Stourbridge Lions Historic Debut - Mike Pearson/Ray State
ISSUE 4 (Vol 52) No1
Was It Really So? (memories) Pt3 - Keith Robinson
A Gornal Christmas Rhyme - David Walker
Pastor Henry Rollinson (Price St. Mission) - Prof David Hughes
A Ticket for a Cup Final & a European Cup Final for £1 - Terry Church
The Founding of the Brierley Hill School of Art - James Measell
An Armistice Memoir - N C Hilton
The 1832 Blck Country Cholera Outbreak - Edward Davies
Victor Marvin Finegan AKA Lord Nip-a-Kof Pt2 - DE Yates & JD Halverson
Let there be Light - Carol Hathorne
The Rise & Fall of Nailmaking in Lye - Eric Pritchard
Tipton to Kent & Back in WW1 - Elizabeth Dorothy Wheeler
A Little Wartime Memory - John Lester
Blk Country History Day 2018 - Judith Watkin
Methodism in Kingswinford - Terry Church
Memories of Wordsley Hospital (1931-1954) - J. Godfrey
Sedgley Park School - Michael Doyle
Dartmouth Cricket Club - West Brom's Forgotten Footbal Pioneers - Steve Carr
How much for an Ear; Saxon Law Codes - Richard Denning
BCLM Forging Ahead - Simon Briercliffe
Ayli and 'itler - Paul Fieldhouse