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.
1983 continued
ISSUE 3
The Family of Henns - Jewellers - B.M. Henn
John Roper Memorial - J. Brimble
The Great Oak Farm Smash - R. Davies
Two Loco's with Black Country Links - R. Shill
An Unusual Memorial - H. Francis
Lost Films in The Black Country - N. Williams
The Fair Name of Oldbury (County High School) - O.L. Jones
Blue Ribbons & Brass Bands (II) - H.J. Haden
Inn Signs of The Black Country (II) - K. & K. Lloyd
Town Gaols of Walsall & Wolverhampton 1802 - B. Harris
The 19th Century West Bromwich Notebook - R.F. Homer
The Remains of Atlas Ironworks - B. Harris
ISSUE 4
The Pitt Family of Dudley - S. Cooper & P. Pitt
Chance's Glass Works circa. 1857 (Engraving) - R. Moss
A Black Country School in Wales - R. Moss
Bilston's Warm Entry - J. Smith
In Signs of the Black Country (IV) - K. & K. Lloyd
A Wolverhampton Midget (The Atomette) - S.E. Baggott
The Gate into The Black Country (From Flower of Gloster)
Thomas Carlyle & The Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
Willingworth Hall - R. Davies
A Century Unattained (Halseowen Railway) - M. Hale
Darlaston Library (Early Years) - M. Timmins
Jemima Lamb - G. Elwell
Tommy Truck (Pt I) - H.J. Haden
1983
ISSUE 1
Wolverhampton Garden Suburb - N. Williams
West Bromwich Houses of Victorian Gentlemen - B. Harris
Thomas Attwood - Life & Times - J. Taylor
Troubled Waters - A 19th Century Fued - C.J.L. Elwell
The History of the Button Trade in Halesowen - C.F. Grove
Cycle Manufacture in The Black Country - M. Knight
Inn Signs of the Black Country (V) - K. & K. Lloyd
Tommy Truck (II) - H.J. Haden
When Beans weren't Has-Beans - J. Brimble
The Oldest pidgeon Loft in Bilston - R. Davies
William Shenstone's Schoolmistress - F. Burns
1984
ISSUE 2
A History of the Button Trade in Halesowen (II) - G. F. Grove
Wordsley 'Olympia' (Lymp) & its Proprietor - H.J. Haden
Memories of Kates Hill in the 1920's - E. Rhodes
The Old Glasshouse Site, Dudley - R. Benbow
Loco's with Black Country Links - R.M. Shill
Netherton & Darby End - G. Baker
The 'Elisabeth' (Blast Furnace) - R. Davies
Wall Heath from the 1930's - D. Griffiths
A Great Engineer Visits the Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
The Woodside Ironworks - A.T.C & E.M. Lavender
Willenhall Box Company (50th Year) Review
Town Records by John West - A.S. Hill
ISSUE 3
Birchills & Leamore - R.M. Shill & P. Steele
Some Old Bilston Toll Houses - R. Davies
A History of the Button Trade in Halesowen (III) - E. Grove
Beating Boredom before Computers - E. Badger
Advent of the Safety Brigade - The Black Country
Response - M. Knight
Death Cards - H. Parsons
J. F. Ede - J.M. Fletcher
Wordsley 'Olympia' (Lymp') - H.J. Haden
A Product of Bilston (The TB Three Wheeler) - S.E. Baggott
Wales & The Black Country - I.G.H. Wilks
ISSUE 4
The Laureate in the Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
The Dudley Hutments - R. Benbow
Wolverhampton Ordinaries (Bicycles) - M. Knight
A Mystery of the 1881 Census - B. Carter
Bilston's Ancient Pile - R. Davies
Juvenile Crime & Punishment in The Black Country -
1850 - 1900 - D. Woods
An Incident in Stourbridge Road, Halesowen - S. Edge
The Empire Variety Theatre, Smethwick - B. Harris
A New Station for The Black Country - N. Williams
Private Cinemas in The Black Country - N. Williams
The Prophet of the Long Road (Francis Asbury) - A. Franklin
A Walsall Hero of 1927
(Air Vice Marshall Webster) - J. Boulton
1984
ISSUE 1
Apprentices on the Run - A. Franklin
Clarke's of Wolverhampton (Cycles) - M. Knight
Wollaston Hall - H.J. Haden
William Paget of Wednesbury - B. Harris
Look Back to Coseley - H. Francis
Holly Hall Crossroads - A.T.C. & E.M. Lavender
Walsall Church Hill - M. Lewis
Starting Tipton's Road to Health - J. Brimble
Rolfe Street Baths, Smethwick - B. Harris
Two Notorious Public Houses at Bilston - R. Davies
A Black Country Vicarage Garden - D. Durstan
Tipton Link with Nova Scotia - K. Brown
Two Pumping Engines of the S.S. Mines
Drainage Comm - D.J. Humphries
That Was The Market, That Was - R. Davies
A Coseley poet (Joseph Darby) - L. Taylor
What the Black Country means to Me - M. Bennett
Vacation at Dudley Castle 1909 - B. Williams
1985
ISSUE 2
The First General Strike in the
Black Country (I) - C.J.L. Elwell
The Watermen of Dudley - B.J. Williams & J.V. Leerzem
Workmen's Return - A. Truby
St. Leonards, A Black Country Church - R. Davies
Stourbridge Market Hall Facade - H.J. Haden
George Lovatt (Brierley Hill Heavyweight) - H.J. Haden
Black Country Snippers - R.M Shill & P. Steele
The Wednesbury Residences of Victorian Gentlemen - B. Harris
A Black Country Flora - R. Davies
Miss Joan Green M.B.E. - A. Franklin
Pity the Poor Prentice - H.J. Haden
Coseley Composer - L. taylor
The End of an Era (Oldbury Ironmongers) - J.E. Hornby
Modern Road Names - J. Brimble
Recalling the Last of the Charter Masters - A. Williams
ISSUE 3
G.W.R. 150 and its Relevance to the Black Country - M. Hale
Humphrey Gainsborough & His Steam Engine - M. W. Caesar
Reminiscences of a Black Country Pub - M. Murphy
Picturesque Bilston - R. davies
Building the Bean - D. Humphries
Where Two Ways Meet (Wellesley House) - J. Winkworth
Black Country Machines at the National
Motorcycle Museum - J. Boulton
Darlaston Street Names - M. Timmins
Oldbury in the 1840's - H.L. Kershaw
The Swan, Swan Villiage - B. Harris
Ma Pardoe (The Old Swan, Netherton) - W. Steventon
Stourbridge Skin Works - H.J. Haden
The First General Strike in the Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
The Dark Ages Revisited - K. Prosser
Retired Lye Cobbler - J. Cooksey
Major Lock Museum for Willenhall - H. Parsons
ISSUE 4
The First General Strike in the Black Country - C.J.L. Elwell
The Wolverhampton artists Group - C. Burns
West Bromwich Institute Centenary - J. Maddison
Oldbury Glassworks - D. Humphries
Walsall to Walsall (South Staffs Water Works) - B.J Williams &
J. Van Leerzem
Protestant Refugees in the Midlands - A.T.C. & E.M. Lavender
Living with Dialect - K. Fletcher
The Lords of Dudley (I) - H.J. Haden
Tipton Musical Society Finale - G. Gill
Schooldays - The Happiest - E. Badger
Entertainment Early This Century - H. Francis
On Sedgley Beacon - J.W. Jones
