THE BLACKCOUNTRYMAN MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
2017
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
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
2018
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
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