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.
1992
ISSUE 1
Black Country Personalities -
Ken Downing from the Rock Band Judas Priest - S. Hill
Himley Recollections - P.R. Rostron
William Bannister & Co. Chainmakers - R. Moss
When Barnum & Bailey came to the Black Country - N. Williams
Galton Bridge (Poem) J.W. Jones
Noel Brettell, Lye's long distance Poet - H.J. Haden
Halesowen's Municipal History
Wall Heath House - J. Sparry
Professor Robert Baker - S. Hill
Local Studies in Wolverhampton - A. Franklin & P. Toulmin
My Love of the Black Country - A. Saholta
Mobs & Methodists, The Wednesbury Riots 743-44 - C. Spittall
Papers - T. Jukes
The Communications of Wolverhapton II - D. Huffer
Walsall Evening Institute - W.L. Pace
Princes End and its Railway II - M. Hale
The Grange Theatre, Walsall II - P.F. Viles
1993
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities - Stanley George Yardley - S. Hill
The Man who Bowled Bradman - C. Morris
Grorty - T. Jukes
Politicians, Press and the Public - H.J. Haden
West Park, Wolverhampton - S. Whitehouse
When Sundays were Sundays - D.E.M. Massey
Wood's Boat Dock, Short Heath - W.L. Pace
A Walsall Doctor in the Falklands - C.J.L. Elwell
Mrs Baldwins - D. Barlow
The Garman Ryan Collection - D. Vodden
The Pewterers of Bewdley & Wribbenhall - R. F. Homer
Warley Male Choir
The Communications of Wolverhampton III - D. Huffer
Cooper's Ducks, Coots, Lezzers & Gobs - J. Sparry
Cauliflowers & Duck Eights - A. Price
Mobs & Methodists (Conclusion) - C.J. Spittal
A Night in the Workhouse - A. Charwin
When Barnum & Bailey came to the Black Country - N. Williams
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities -
James Cooksey Mason O.B.E. - S. Hill
Frederick William Hackwood - Historian or Journalistic Bohemian? - C.J.L. Elwell
The Commemoration of a Black Country Locomotive - J. Allen
Actresses in the Black Country during the
19th & early 20th centuries - S.R. Wallin
The Black Country Disaster 1992 - R. Hooper
Busy Lines at Dudley - K. Tibbetts
The Loxtons of Wednesbury, Walsall & Cannock - J. Stringer
An Elizabeth II Manor House
(a) Hunters Lodge - G. Wood
(b) Another Man's Dream - R. Davies
My Richest Black Country Eid - S. Siddique
Last Days on the Line to Dudley - N. Williams
A Missile of the Thunder God - J. Sparry
The Communications of Wolverhampton, Canals - D. Huffer
Boscobel - S. Browne
Penn Common & Upper Penn, Goldthorpe
Hill and Bradmore - A. Dunphy
The Grazebrooks at Audnam House - P. R. Rostron
Oakeswell Hall - I. Bott
The Tipton Slasher Statue Unvieling
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - Basil Eugene Poole - S. Hill
Railway Reminiscences, Dudley Station 1938-41 - K. Tibbetts
A Day in the Country - G.M Welsh
Bright The Vision That Delighted - J. Sparry
Radio Recollections - H.L Kershaw
The Communications of Wolverhampton, Canals II - D. Huffer
Tales from Tipton - Dummy - T. Jukes
Nevere a Dull Moment - D.E.M. Massey
Paul Bloomer 'Our Man at the Royal Academy' - S. Hill
An American Citizen's Black Country Ancestors - R.G. Martin
A Link with Wolverhampton Motorcycle History - J. Boulton
Jack Downing - The Actor & His Gilbert &
Sullivan Connections - S.R. Wallin
In Buritt's Footsteps (I) - C.J.L. Elwell
Graveston Omissions - P. Hurley
Memories of a Black Country Lad -
Wulfrun College 1959-61 - W. Pace
Baylie's Chainworks, Stourbridge - W.L. Downes
Appreciation - Jim William Jones - E. Lowbery
1993
ISSUE 1
In Burritt's Footsteps - C.J.L. Elwell
Consequences, New Year's Day - D. Cartwright
A Thoroughly Modern Marge - J. Sparry
Baylie's Chainworks, Stourbridge - W.L. Downes
Wulfrun College of F.E. 1961-70 - W.L. Pace
The Remedies - M. Marsh
Flying the Flag in the USA - S. Hill
Black Country Water Supplies - B.J. Williams & J. Van Leerzem
Harts Hill Bus Garage
Tales from Tipton - T. Jukes
Black Country Personalities - Harry Eccleston O.B.E. - S. Hill
The Communications of Wolverhampton-Railways - D. Huffer
An Unusual Holiday - S.Hill
Wordsley Amateur Dramatic Society - B. Cotton
Mon O' Many Parts (Poem) - J. Hunt
My Life at Orchard Lane JM School, Lye 1941-44 - P. Dunn
Down in the Forest - R.Weston
Oldbury Independent Congregational Church - F. Allen
A Fearful Pit Accident - R. Hoole
1994
ISSUE 2
Black Country Personalities- Colonel Audrey Smith - S. Hill
Fetes, Fireworks & Flummery ay Dudley Castle - C.B. Round
The Wall Heath Air Show - C. Harper & J. Van Leerzem
The Communications of Wolverhampton - D. Huffer
Taming the Tearaways - D.E.M. Massey
Museum Stalwart Moves On - R. Moss
Two Mobile Men - J. Sparry
Black Country Gas - C.J.L. Elwell
Public Art in Dudley - G. Warburton
Black Country Sounds & Smells - P. Shilson
Work in Lye in the 19th Century - Census1851-1881 - A. Day
Davies Brothers and their Neighbours,'Wolverhampton 21' - P. Thorn
Theatrical Entertainment in Cradley Heath - S.R. Wallin
Nick Adams - A Black Country Sculptor - A. Mabbett
Wulfrun College of F.E. 1970 - 82 - W.L. Pace
Home Straight (Poem) - A. Davis
ISSUE 3
Black Country Personalities - Hilda Mantle - S. Hill
Inside an Early Glasshouse - P. Chandler
The IMI Marston Heritage Centre - J. Boulton
Water Supplies of the Black Country -
Smestow Valley - B.J. Williams & J. Van Leerzdem
Theodore Mander (1853 - 1900) Whitwick Manor - P. Pegg
Dan's Overalls - J. Sparry
The Gypsies of Brierley Hill - K. Russell
A Black Country 'Garden' - T. Jukes
Black Country Canals - B. Clarke
Brockmoor School (1887-1994) Pt1 - R. Julian
Black Country Gas - C.J.L. Elwell
The Mary Stevens Hospice mpves on - G. Wood
FD Ended - B. Minton
Training & Enterprise - Key to the Future - B. Turner
The Communications of Wolverhampton, Railways - D. Huffer
ISSUE 4
Black Country Personalities - Ian Messiter - S. Hill
Brockmoor School Pt 2 - R. Julian
Early Schooldays in the Black Country - E. Hobbs (nee Hill)
Reflections on Archie Hill's Corridor of Mirrors - P. McDonald
Inside an Early Glasshouse Pt2 - P. Chandler
First Job - D.E.M. Massey
Childhood in Ladymoor, Cisley - F.A. Barnett (transcribed T. Genge)
Around West Bromwich with Ron Davies - R. Davies
Ceres Works, Wolverhampton 1861 - A. Chatwin
The Walsall Anarchists - D.F. Vodden
A Tipton Wedding - J. Boulton
From Gladrags to Ragbags - C. Hackett
Taking the Bad with the Good - N. Sale
Leaving Home - M. Homer
Stourbridge Students - Garman Ryan Collection - J. Swift
From Wolverhampton to Wall Heath via Moose Jaw
and Medicine Hatt - J. Sparry
Julie Hanson - J. Mantle
Washing Day 1920 (Poem) - C. Hackett
New Feature at the Museum - B. Clarke
The Experts aren't Always Right - E. Cotterill