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.
1996
ISSUE 1
Black Country Personalities - Lord Harmar Nicholls - S. Hill
The Christmas Fair - B. Barr
Wolverhampton's Civic Society Blue Plaques
Tipton's Forgotten M.P. - D. Yates
Black Country Museum Aquisition - J. Boulton
Men Before their Time (Manders Works Council) - P. Hickman
Airships Over the Black Country - J. Van Leezdem
Corngreaves School 1892 - 1922 - J. West
Rolfe Street Baths - R. Griffin
A Loss to Cradley - G.E. Hodgetts
Very Hip at the Hippodrome - J. Sparry
Lost Mansions of Sedgley - R. Baker
Black Country Bumpkin - V. Holloway
Wordsley Brewery - D. Cox
Swinford - in Search of a Boundary - E. Richardson
Harry & Carl Northwood (Wordsley Boys) - J.S. Measell
Mr Jeston Homfray & The Old Worse & Worse - P. Barnsley
Braithwaite & Kirk, Crown Works - P.J. English
1997
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities - Alderman Sir John Chalstrey, M.A., M.D., DSc.,F.R.C.S., Lord Mayor of London 1995-6 - S. Hill
Made in te Black Country for S.S. Titanic - R. Moss
Nancy Price, Actress, Novelist, Film Producer - J. Perry
Corngreaves School 1892 - 1922 - J. West
What's in a Name - K. Bloomer
Working in Wartime Cradley Heath - P. Taylor
The Steve Bloomer Memorial - P. Barnsley
Sir John Campbell, Dudleys Modern MP - P. Skidmore
The Sunday Opening Wars in the Black Country - N. Williams
Himley Hall - R. Jullian
A Man who Owns a Star - J. Hunt
Brian Manning, Hon. Doctor of Science - Prof. E. Ives
As Busy as Bees in Bilston Street - J. Sparry
County Youth Drama - R. Griffin
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities - H. Jack Haden - S. Hill
The Walsall Chamber of Commerce - E.J.L. Elwell
Steve Bloomer's Claim to Fame - P. Barnsley
Corngreaves School 1892 - 1922 - J. West
Ralph Meanly - The Black Country Baritone - C. Simmonds
A Community in the Early Forties - Horsley Heath - K. Blount
The Sedgley Manor Local Museum Mural - R. Baker
Around the Black Country Museum with Ron Davies - R. Davies
Sir John Campbell, Dudley's First Modern MP II - P. Skidmore
A Stitch in Time - G.G. Chance
Retracing Footsteps - M. Clarkson
'Two Little Chicks' and other chortles - J. Sparry
Greensforge Roman Sites - D. Cox
The Cinema in Wartime - M. Massey
Graseley Old Hall - G. Warburton
'Flying the Flag - G. Beckley
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - Stanley Adams - S. Hill
The Discovery of the Powder Plot - J. Sparry
George Armstrong & the GWR at Wolverhampton - N. Williams
Harry & Carl Northwood ( Wordsley Boys) - J.S. Measell
Braithwaite & Kirk, Crown Works, W. Bromwich - P.J. English
I Remember - 1940-1947 - Memories of Lapal, Halesowen and Lapal Primary School - M. Wheway
Bilston Landmarks - R. Davies
Corngreaves School 1892 - 1922 III - J. West
Christ Church, Quarry Bank Celebrates 150yrs-Rev T. Chapman
Bob Marsh - Candle Maker - P.Power
A Community in the Early 1940's, Horsley Heath - K. Blount
Lye Forge - P.W. King
Black Country Bumpkin -
A Land Fit for Heroes 1919 - 1929 - V. Holloway
Footer - J.D. Williams
1997
ISSUE 1
Black Country Personalities - John Graham Price - S. Hill
Rally of Black Country Made Vehicles - J. Boulton
Sagging Seagars! It's Sang de Beout' (Ruskin Pottery - J. Sparry
A Day to Remember - R. Griffin
The Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries - D. Mannering
New Stamps - Black Country Connections - J. Boulton
A Black Country Marconi Wireless Officer WW1 - J. Bradley
A Child's Christmas (c1917) Poem - J. Hunt
Rolfe Streets Theatre Royal - R. Griffin
The Family & Local History Fair - G. Beckley
Fox Henderson & Co. of Smethwick - P.J. English
William Corbett in the Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
R.A.F. Over the Black Country - J. Van Leerzem
Wittimer - R. Jones
Stourbridge Festival & Arts Forum - S. Wallin
The Black Country Viewed from Far Off Places - M. Homer
We Will Remember Them - P. Hickman
James Bates Brickworks 1840 - 1956 - T. Genge
No Nudes is Good Nudes - B. Broadbent
Rowley Regis Parish Church - G. Bubb
1998
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities- Frank Beckley- S. Hill
The Greening of the Black Country - P. Skidmore
100 Years of Springmire Reservoir - J. Van Leerzem
From Kingswinford Church to Kingswinford Cross - J. Sparry
Nearly the House of Dudley - D. Mannering
Cradley's Forgotten Connections - P. Barnsley
Advice for a Commercial Traveller - P. Hickman
The Tipton Heritage Centre & Museum - P.J. Lacey
The Life & Work of Sister Dora - A.H. Price
Christ Church, Oldbury - C.J.N. Fletcher
The Sanitary Movement of the Black Country Pt1 - C.J.L.Elwell
From A Police Sargents Notebook - J. Lester
40th Anniversary - Munich Air Crash
Braithwaite & Kirk, Crown Works Pt3 - P.J. English
Cum Sing Wi' We - R. Weston
Scarper the Chavvies - B. Broadfield
Baggeridge Colliery 1895 - 1968
Harry Ecclestone, O.B.E., PPRE and the Caponfield Suite
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities - Samuel Thompson - S. Hill
Wordesley Workhouse - D. Cox
A Hymn for a Special Industrial Sunday Service - S.L. Fletcher
The Wolverhampton Flour & Bread Co. - P. Hickman
The Sanitary Movement of the Black Country Pt2 - C.J.L.Elwell
Is Gibraltar Redundant? A Kingswinford Walk - J. Sparry
A Tribute to Frank Richards - R. Bowling
Theatrical 'Digs' of Yesteryear - B. Broadfield
A Pennfields Hero - A. Dunphy
The Life & Works of Sister Dora Pt 2 - A.H. Price
100yrs of Pumping at Tack Lane - J. Van Leerzem
Nearly the House of Dudley Pt2 - D. Mannering
The New 'Cut' at Brierley Hill - G. Warburton
Braithwaite & Kirk, Crown Works Pt4 - P.J. English
Memories of a Lamplighters Lad - P. Power
The Lollipop Lady - I. Richards
Jack Judge on Record - P. Barnsley
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - John R. Woodhouse - S. Hill
The First Motorised Lye Vehicle - R. Wilkes
Ninety Years of C.H.A.O.S. - G.E. Hodgetts
Open Days at Boulton Paul
75th Anniversary of Wolverhampton Trolley Buses - D. Vernon & JVL
The Sanitary Movement of the Black Country Pt3 - C.J.L.Elwell
Looking Back - L. Arrowsmith
Oldbury Vicarage Recalled - C.J.N. Fletcher
William Shenstone's 'Priory' at the Leasowes - Dr F. Burns
Braithwaite & Kirk, Crown Works Pt 5 - P.J. English
Jack Judge - A Retrospective - G. Bubb
'Phone Kingswinford 8 or Kingswinford 48 - J. Sparry
The Black Country Urban Forest - C. Bradley
The Black Country Local History Consortium - G. Hill
An Unlikely Connection - M. Jones
