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June 20:
A new addition to Old Photographs and
Images of Wolverhampton and the Surrounding Area is
More Images of Wolverhampton
from Old Postcards. Another new addition,
West Park From Old Postcards
has been added to the new
Parks section in the
Exhibition
Services Hall.
A new addition to the Religion
menu in History in the
Community is Ewan
Christian's report on St. Peter's Church and also an updated
version of St. John's In The Square.
The section about Lindy Lou's shop in
listed buildings has been updated with some
new photos. Photos have also been added to the article about
Methodism in Blakenhall and
Parkfield in the Religion
menu. Wellington Tube Works has been added to the
industries section in
The Annals of Tipton. The
story of F. H. Lloyd
and Company Limited in the
industries section in The
History of Wednesbury has been extended with an
article on the new heavy foundry.
Additions have also been made to the
Wednesbury industries
page, the story of tube making,
The Borough Council and
its Works, Some Shops
and Businesses in the Early 20th Century and
Into the 21st century.
May 20: Several adverts have been added
to the cinemas section in
The Annals of Tipton,
in which the section called The
20th Century has been extended and a new addition about
Slum Housing has been added, as
has the Growing
Town section. A new section describing
shops and shopping in the middle
years of the nineteenth century has been added to
shopping in the past in
the
Bantock Arcade in
the exhibition.
The stories of
Joseph Sankey & Sons Limited, and the
Midland Metal Spinning
Company Limited in the
museum metalware hall have also been extended.
The story of Mander Brothers in
the museum entrance hall has also been
extended, with some photographs
taken at the Heath Town site. Additions have been made to the
Early Photographic Studios section
in the photographers
section in
Bantock Arcade in the
exhibition. Additions have also been made to the following sections in
the story of St. John's In The
Square in listed buildings:
The New Church and
Restoration Work. The
Take Over
section in the history of
Star cars, in
the car section in the
museum transport hall has
been extended.
April 20: Additions have been made to
the story of the Horseley Company
in the industries section of The Annals of Tipton.
The following sections in
The Story of Walsall have
been extended: Second Half
of the 19th Century, the story of
Pat Collins,
The First World War and the story
of the new Town Hall in
The Early Twentieth Century. The story of
James Gibbons
Limited and also their
1952 catalogue
in the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers has been extended along with the sections about
John Harper & Company Limited,
J. Legge & Company Limited,
Anglo-American Lock
Company Limited, Henry
Squire & Sons Limited,
Thomas Morgan & Sons Limited and
Enoch Pinson Limited. The story of Samuel Mills
Slater and his wife, Mary Julia Slater, along with the story of John George
Rose in
Notable 19th Century
Darlastonians and also the
Darlaston pubs section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended. The following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages have been extended:
C and L Hill Limited,
Religion and Churches,
Into the 20th Century
and Life in the 19th
Century.
March 20: A new addition to the
Cycles Section in
the museum transport hall
is Harry Lester from
Walsall. The hospitals section in The Story of Walsall
has been extended and a some
adverts of shops from 1902 have been added to
Early Twentieth Century.
The section on St. Peter's Collegiate
Church and the section on St.
Peter's Gardens in listed buildings
have both been extended. The story of
St. Catherine's
Convalescent Home, Penn has been added to the
articles menu, the
Penn menu, and the
exhibition health
services menu. Additions have been made to
Evans Pumps Today in
the story of Joseph Evans
in the museum
engineering hall. Additions have also been made to the story of
Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss
in part 1 of industries
alongside the BCN. The story of the
lost shops at the southern end
of Worcester Street in lost buildings of
Wolverhampton has been extended. More photographs have been added to the
Brownhills section
in Recent Times in
The Story of Walsall. A
section about Tipton's annual
carnival in the 1990s has been added to
The Twentieth Century in The Annals of Tipton.
February 20: The story of
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas
Thorneycroft of Tettenhall Towers has been added to
Lives of Local People and the
Tettenhall menu. The history of
the
Patent Shaft and Axletree
Company, Other Industries, Public Houses,
The Growth of the Town and the
Contents
section in The
History of Wednesbury have been extended. Additions have been made to
the history of Shrubbery
Ironworks in part 2 of the
Industries Alongside the BCN section in the museum
other trades hall. A new addition to the Tipton
menu is Tipton Adverts Through
Time. The following sections in
Darlaston industries in
A Brief History of Darlaston
have been extended: GKN, and
Garringtons Limited, as
well as the industries
section itself. Additions have also been made to the following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages: Life
in the 19th Century and
The Industrial Town. The following sections in The Story of Walsall
have been extended: Second
Half of the Nineteenth Century,
John Lea and Taylor's Music
Shop, Roads, Canals and
Railways, Public Houses,
Industry,
The Leather Industry,
Iron Foundries and
Iron and Steel. The story of
Sankeys of Bilston has been extended and also added to the
museum
engineering hall. The story of
St. Luke's Church, Bilston has been added to the
religion menu.
January 20: The story of
Darlaston's canals and the
references section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
have been extended, as has the section about Slater Street School in
education,
Notable Nineteenth Century
Darlastonians and
Into the Twentieth Century as well as the section on A. G. Sutherland
Limited in subsidiaries of
Rubery Owen & Company Limited in the
industries section. The following sections in
Industries Alongside the
BCN have also been extended:
part 3 the story of
Adolphe Crosbie;
part 5 the story of
T and C Clark &
Company Limited. The following sections have been added or extended in
the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers:
Bracher and Gripper, Hobbs
& Company, Chubb,
and Phillips & Son. A
new addition to Into The
20th Century in The Story of Walsall
is the story of the Growth of
Shopping in Park Street. The story of the Mond Gas Works in
The Growing Town section of The Annals of Tipton
has been extended. A new addition to the
Articles About Wednesbury menu
is Adverts from 1916 and 1917.
The story of Reade Brothers and
Company Limited, manufacturing chemists, in the
chemists menu in
the chemists section in
Bantock Arcade in
the exhibition has been
extended.
December 19: A brief history of Foster
Brothers, tube manufacturers, has been added to the
tubes section in the
industries section in The
History of Wednesbury. The story of
Beans Industries and
Palethorpes in the
industries section of The Annals of Tipton
has been extended, as has the
industries section itself and
The Twentieth Century.
Additions have been made to
Guy Motors
Commercial vehicles in the
Guy commercial section
and Guy buses in
the Guy bus section in the
museum transport hall.
Additions have also been made to the story of
Viking Cycles in the
cycles section in
the
museum transport hall. The
section on the 1902 Art and
Industrial exhibition in the articles
menu, has also been extended. A new addition to the
articles menu is an article and
photographs about local
demolitions and projects carried out by W Hayden & Son Limited.
Into the 20th Century,
Public Houses and The
Development of Local Government in Willenhall
Through the Ages have been extended. The story of
Henry Harrison and Sons Limited
in the
Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers has also been extended.
November 19: The story of Cornelius
Whitehouse in The
History of Wednesbury has been extended and added to the
Lives of Local People.
The early industries
section, also in The
History of Wednesbury has been extended with the addition of local
potteries.
Life in the 19th Century
in Willenhall
Through the Ages has been extended, as has the story of
Garringtons in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The following additions have been made to the
Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers:
Carpenter and Tildesley and
Young and Smith. The story
of Whitehead Brothers
(Wolverhampton) Limited has been added to the
printers section in
the museum printing hall.
A brief description of Ford
Electronics Limited has been added to
Part 5 of
Industries Alongside the
BCN in the museum
other trades hall and the
Transport Services
Hall in the Exhibition
of Commerce and Services. Additions have been made to the section on the
shops at the southern end of
Worcester Street that is in Lost Buildings.
C. H. Robbins & Son has
been added to the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers. An early industrial photo has been added to the
section about boiler explosions
and additions have been made to John
Thomas's article about St. Peter's chancel.
October 19: The details about St.
George's Church and graveyard in the listed
buildings section have been updated. The following sections have been
added to The Annals of Tipton:
The Growing Town,
Public Houses, the
Tipton section from Harrison and
Harrod and Company's 1861 Staffordshire Directory, the
Tipton section from Kelly's 1912
Staffordshire Directory,
The Twentieth Century, A
Terrible Explosion, Cinemas,
Ocker Hill Power Station,
Zeppelin Raids, the
References section,
The Development of Local
Government, the story of
Vono, the story of Revo and
the Contents page have also been
updated. Additions have
been made to the following parts of the industries section in The
History of Wednesbury: Tube
Making and Hill Top
Foundry, and also to the section on
Shops and Businesses in the
early 20th Century and to
Churches and Religion. A new section about
Urban dairy farms in
Darlaston Green in the early 1900s has been added to
the
More articles about Darlaston's
past menu. More photos have been added to the story of
Diamond Motorcycles
in the museum transport hall.
September 19: The story of
Tony Smith and his
family has been added to the Tipton section along with a new
Tipton menu. The story of
The Local Board, the
Industries section, the
history of The Steel Nut & Joseph
Hampton Limited, the history of
Wilkes Limited, and the
Post War Years in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended. A new addition to
More Articles About Darlaston's
Past is Some Old
Darlaston Street Names. The story of
The Weldless Steel Tube Company
Limited in museum
engineering hall 3 has been extended. The story of
Reade Brothers & Company Limited
in the museum other
trades hall and the
exhibition chemists
section has also been extended. Additions have been made to the story of
J. Banks & Company Limited,
John Harper & Company Limited,
W. M. Pinson and Son Limited,
Arthur Shaw and Company Limited, and Joseph Waine & Company
Limited
in the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers. The
following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages have again been extended:
Industrial Town,
Religion and Churches, and
Into the 20th Century.
The 2019 Turner Wolverhampton Reunion
has been added to the
rallies section in the museum transport hall.
August 19: The story of
Tipton's industries has been
added to The Annals of Tipton
along with histories of coal
mining, local ironworks,
Beans Industries,
the Horseley Company,
Neptune Forge, Chain, Anchor and
Engine Works, Lee, Howl &
Company Limited, James Keir &
Company, Revo,
Roads and Railways, and the
references section. The
following sections in The Story of Walsall
have been extended: Into
the 19th Century, Sister
Dora, Industry,
Cholera, and The Second
Half of the 19th Century. The section about the
workhouse and cholera in Willenhall
Through the Ages has also been extended, as has the
GKN section,
World War Two, and the story of
Wilkins and Mitchell Limited in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The following sections in The
History of Wednesbury have also been extended:
Some shops and businesses
in the early 20th century,
The Borough Council and
Its Works, The Growth of the
Town, Into the 21st
Century, Churches and
Religion, the story of the
Patent Shaft and Axletree
Company, and Old Park
Works, in the Other
Industries section, and
Roads, Canals and Railways.
July 19: The
story of Bob Smith in
Into the 20th Century in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended, as has
Recent Times,
Industries and the history of
Easiclene in the Rubery Owen
section. The story of
Seamless Tubes has been added to the
Wednesfield menu and to the
museum engineering hall.
Descriptions of works visits by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers to
Walsall manufacturers has been added to the section on
John Shannon & Son Limited
and John Russell & Company
in the industries section
and the leather industry page in The Story of Walsall.
The stories of the
Electrical Construction Company and
Thomas Parker Limited in the
museum electrical and
electronic engineering hall have been extended. The story of
Wolverhampton's power
station in
Industries Alongside the BCN in the
museum other trades hall
has also been extended. , and to
Wednesfield Canal in
the Wednesfield section, and
also Into the 20th Century
in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The
DKR story in the
motorcycle section in
the museum transport hall
has been extended, as has the
DMW section with
images from a
'Bambi' catalogue.
June 19: Additions have been
made to the 1897 Wolverhampton
Business Review and to the
following sections in the
History of A.J.S.:
The Early Years and
The Later Years and
a 1925 A.J.S. catalogue
has been added to The
Middle Years. Details of the
early development of Tipton's libraries have been added to the
Local Government section
in
The Annals of Tipton. The
links page has been updated along with the
genealogy links. An article about the
running of one of Thomas
Parker's battery-powered trams in Sydney, has been added to the
Australia page in the story
of Thomas Parker. The
Elwell-Parker section has
also been extended. The
histories of James
Fellows & Son and
S. J. & E. Fellows Limited in the
metalware and holloware section
in the museum metalware hall
have been greatly extended. The
story of Sister Dora and the
industry section in The Story of Walsall
have been extended. The histories of
Wilkes Limited and
E. C. and J. Keay Limited in the
Industries section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
have been extended, as has the
Interwar Years section.
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