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.
1990
ISSUE 1
Eminent Black Country Folk - Sue Lawley - S. Hill
Recollections of Black Country Natural History - F.M. Slater
Remembering Badley Hall & Kingswinford - P. Taylor
Housing & The Black Country Dev. Corporation - S. Hill
Come Again! - J. Sparry
What's Flat, Square & Black all over? - C. Dunne
Crystal 90 - A Festival 350yrs in the making - M. Carpenter
Over the Top - J.W. Jones
Princes End Baptist Church - H. Francis
A First Day at the Foundry - N. Sale
What the Postman Saw - D. Piggott
The Queen's Dance Hall 1959-69 - G. Sharp
International. interest in the Steamy Story of
Prehistoric Sandwell - M. Hodder
More Trouble at the Frontier - N. Williams
'A Capful O' Nails' A critical analysis - P.J. McDonald
1991
ISSUE 2
Eminent Black Country Folk -
Rachael Heyhoe Flint M.B.E. - S. Hill
A Great Black Country School - C.J.L. Elwell
The Early Days of Tipton Firebrigade - J. Brimble
Sam Cotton, Councillor & Entertainer 1872-1965 - S.R. Wallin
The Black Country Re-visited - N.H. Brettell
Gothersley Mill - R. Davies
More on Tommy Handley of 'itma' Radio Fame
At Much Bashing in the Bashas - J. Sparry
A Baker's Century - H.J. Haden
Netherton Cricket Club - R.R. Dews
The Rise, Fall & Rise Again of
St. James's School, Dudley - A. Lineen
Life & Death in Sandwell, Report
The Black Country Development Corporation Education
and Training Initiatives - S. Hill
ISSUE 3
Eminent Black Country Folk - Sir Jack. Hayward M.B.E. - S. Hill
Copper Kettles & Brass Plates - J. Sparry
Passenger Boats between Wolverhampton & Birmingham
1843 - 1852 - P. Thorn
Harrisons Cycle Shop, West Bromwich - D. Palmer & J. Davis
From Willenhall - Whitehall, The PM Local Ancestory - R. Bond
The Infuence of Somers - R. Bayliss
Taken to the Bnaks - H. Parsons
Cor! Strike a Light - P.D. Bloore
Brunel & the Low Level Station - M. Hale
The Tangled Tale of 2 Kingswinford Houses - H.J. Haden
Mary Stevens Hospice, Stourbridge - Y. Bourne
The Black Country Development Corporation
Working with the Environment - J. Smith
Stour - J. Crompton
ISSUE 4
Eminent Black Country Folk - Noel Harry Brettell - S. Hill
Memories of a Black Country Lad - W.L. Pace
Old Swinford Hospital - J. Smith
Tales from Tipton - Long Jimmy, Ponky & Polly - T. Jukes
How Long Have We Been in the Black? - K. Hodgkins
The Influence of Somers (II) - R. Bayliss
Amateur Theatricals in the Dudley Area
1856 -1939 - S.R. Wallin
Come on the Baggies - J.W. Proctor
Black Country Water Supplies - Sedgley -
B.J. Williams & J. Van Leerzem
Saline Speculations - J. Sparry
Sir Gilbert Claughton - Man, Machine, Model - M. Hale
1991
ISSUE 1
Eminent Black Country Folk - Anthony Whittaker - S. Hill
Tales from Tipton - Before Coral's - T. Jukes
Galvanised & Corrugated Iron Trade in
Wolverhampton - E.P. Hickman
The Story of a Bloxwich Empire Builder - J. Hunt
Memories of a Black Country Lad - Locksmiths - W.L. Pace
Reminiscences of School Days - L.V. Walker
I Don't Know Much About Art -
But I Know a Bit About Hats - J. Sparry
James Matthews & His Marvellous Flute - M. Lowe
Crystal 91 - and thereafter - M. Carpenter
Amateur Theatricals in the Dudley Area
1856 -1939 (II) - S.R. Wallin
My Holidays in the 1920's - H. Francis
Anthony Booth V.C. - S. Hill
Three Clues to the Past - N.H. Brettell
Black Country, Bright Future - J. Smith
Dudley Poor Law Union New Workhouse - S. Ward
Black Country Surnames - An Update - P. Chandler
1992
ISSUE 2
Eminent Black Country Folk- Sister Winifred Jarvis - S. Hill
The Industrial Scene 30yrs ago - M. Hale
The Mountbatten Family Home - T. Jukes
Bill Homer - A Black Country Man - M. Homer
The Birmingham New Road, 65yrs old - E.P. Hickman
Black Country Aftermath (Poem) - R.R. Dews
Five Historical Landscapes in Halesowen - M. Carpenter
In Search of Noel Brettell - A. Harvey
Churchill Forge - J.C. Pople
Sydney Ryder & Stourbridge Playreaders - S. R. Wallin
Walsall's Parson, Printer, Poet & Palmist - C.J.L. Elwell
'I Dreamt I Dwelled in Marble Halls' - S. Hill
Sandwell Priory - M. Hodder
Smethwick's 19th Century Bell Casters - H. Parsons
'Cum Sing Wi' We' - R. Weston
Goodbye Cannon: Hullo Lighthouse - N. Williams
The Water Supplies of the Black Country -
B.J. Williams & L. Van Leezerm
A Nuremburg Moon - J. Sparry
ISSUE 3
A Tribute to Harold Parsons (1919-1992) - H.J. Haden
Black Country Personalities - Don & Roy Richardson - S. Hill
Recollections of a Smethwick Florist - L.M. Jewkes
Bread from Heaven - The Story of Hickinbottom
& Sons Ltd - S.Hill
Winter Coal - T. Jewkes
Crossroads Care - M. Carpenter
Brierley Hill & its People, Memories of a POW - M. Homer
In Famous Footsteps to the New World - J.K. Cheetham
The Last trains to Stourbridge - M. Hale
Bats in the Belfry - R. Weston
Around Stourbridge - R. Davies
A Black country Devine - C.J.L. Elwell
Old Schools and More Hats - J. Sparry
The Reverend Clement Pass - W.L. Pace
25th Anniversary Celebrations - S. Hill
Langley & Causeway Green - J.R. Rawlings
'Gorrenny Wizzuds' - A. Truby
Birmingham Canal Navigation, Bradley - R. Davies
Memories of Noel Brettell - J. Fenwick
Oldbury Shops & Shopkeepers Remembered - H.L. Kershaw
Old Ghosts (Poem) - J.W. Jones
ISSUE 4
Black Country Society History - H. Parsons
What's in a Name - H. Francis
The Theatrical Lives of Doctor's Wives - S.R. Wallin
Cockfights & Ancestors - J.A. Sheldon
Sunbeam Studios - J. Boulton
The Worcestershire Regiment at the Battle of Gheluvelt - B. Bruff
George Rose Park, Darlaston - M. Timmins
The Grange Theatre, Walsall - P.F. Viles
Wolverhampton Road Developments - D. Huffer
Black Country Personalities - Nigel Hallard FRSA - S. Hill
Seargent Major Purvis - One of the Few - D.F. Vodden
Living & Working in the Black Country - M.P. Smith
Oldbury, Langley & Halesowen Occupations 1841 - K. Crew
Princes End and its Railway (I) - M. Hale
Merry Hill to Mars - J. Sparry
Naming A Locomotive - N. Williams
Walsall's Self Taught Genius - C.J.L. Elwell
Up from Zummerset - H.L. Kershaw
The Black Country Museum - I. Walden
