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December 24:
Recent Times in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended, as has the story of
Darlaston Carnival
in the Articles about Darlaston's
Past menu in the Darlaston menu.
Into the 21st Century
in
The History of Wednesbury
has also been extended. Additions have also been made to the history of
Enoch Tonks & Sons Limited in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum. The section on pubs in Willenhall Through The Ages
in the Willenhall Menu has been extended.
Additions have also been made to the story of the
Guy Vixen, in
The Post War
Years in the history of
Guy Motors in the
museum transport
hall and also the story of
Swallow Motorcycles
in the motorcycles section.
Additions have been made to the following sections in
The Second Half of the
19th Century in
The Story of Walsall:
Hospitals,
Schools.
and the story of Taylor's Music
Shop. Additions have been made to
Into the 19th Century
and Recent Times including
The Story of Walsall Arboretum.
The section on Walsall's
industries and Some of
Crabtree's Products have both been extended, as has the section
about leather goods.
November 24:
Into The 20th Century
in Willenhall Through The Ages
in the Willenhall Menu has been extended.
Additions have been made to the story of
Charles Richards & Sons Limited
and the industries section
and The Grand Junction Railway
in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The story of James Beattie
Limited has been added to the
articles menu and the
shopping menu in
the exhibition. It's in
three parts, The Early Years,
Into the 20th Century and
Later Years. Another new
addition to the articles menu is the
1929 Official Guide to
Wolverhampton, which is in three parts:
Public Buildings,
Industries,
Local Adverts. Additions
have been made to the story of
The Stevens
Screw Company in the museum
engineering hall.
The following sections have also been extended:
Guy Motors in the
commercial
vehicles section in the
museum transport hall and
Guy Motors in the
coaches and buses section in the
museum transport
hall, Cannon Iron Foundries Limited in the
General Metalware and Holloware
section in the Museum Metalware Hall,
Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss Limited in
part 1 of Industries Alongside the Canal in the museum
other trades hall and
Davies Brothers in
part 7 of Industries Alongside the Canal.
Additions have also been made to The
1980s and The 1990s in Images of Wolverhampton
Polytechnic and to Wolverhampton
in the 1980s in Views of
Wolverhampton from the late 20th Century.
October 24:
The 1960s A Decade of Change in
the articles menu has been extended
as has the story of
Boulton Paul in the
aircraft section in the
museum transport hall and the
Heath Town section in the history of
Mander Brothers in the
Museum entrance hall. The section on
World War Two in
Dudley in the Past has also
been extended. The story of
John Perks & Sons Limited in the museum
Metalware Hall under
manufacturers has been
greatly extended. The Early Years
section and the 1950s and 1960s
section in Images of Wolverhampton
Polytechnic in the articles menu
has also been extended. A booklet about
The Greyhound & Punchbowl pub in Bilston has been added to the
pubs menu in the
entertainment hall in the
exhibition and to the
Bilston articles menu and also
to the new acquisitions
section
in the story of William Butler &
Company Limited. The story of
Yale & Towne Manufacturing
Company and Lowe & Fletcher
Limited in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum, has been extended. The
story of Midland Tar Distillers
Limited in Part One of
Industries Alongside the
BCN in the museum
other trades hall has also been extended.
September 24: The
1918 Official Wednesbury
Handbook has been added to
Into the 21st Century
in
The History of Wednesbury
and the sections on
The Borough Council and
its Works and Some Shops
and Businesses in the early 20th Century have been extended. The
following sections in
The Annals of Tipton have also
been extended: Tipton industries
section,
Coal Mines,
The Twentieth Century,
the explosion at Dudley Port,
Local Government
and the story of
E. E. Jeavons & Company Limited. The
1900 catalogue in the story
of Arthur Shaw and
Company Limited in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum, has been extended.
Additions have been made to the following sections in
A Brief History of Darlaston:
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds,
Wilkins and Mitchell (Servis washing
machines) and
Industries. Additions
have also been made to the following sections in the
museum engineering hall:
The Star Aluminium
Company Limited, and
Joshua Bigwood & Son Limited, also to the following sections in the
museum electrical
engineering hall:
Contactor
Switchgear Limited, and
The Final Years
of The Electric
Construction Company.
August 24: The story of
Joseph Sankey & Sons
Limited in the museum
metalware hall and the museum
engineering hall
has been extended. A 1961 trades
directory has been added to
Into the Twentieth Century
in Willenhall Through the Ages
and the section on The
Development of Local Government in Willenhall has been updated. The
section on Heath Town Works in
the history of Manders in the
museum entrance hall has been extended,
as has the story of Bayliss,
Jones & Bayliss in
Industries Alongside the BCN in the museum
other trades hall.
The story of Chubb locks and
safes in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum has also been extended. A
new addition to the Articles on Local
History menu is 1930s
Photos and Adverts of Wolverhampton. The story of
Reade Brothers, manufacturing
chemists in the Other
Trades Hall in the museum has been updated and additions have been made
to the story of
St. Catherine's
Convalescent Home in the Penn
menu in Local Areas. The
section called Into The
20th Century in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has also been extended.
July 24:
Part 3 in the story of
Molineux House and Family in
the General History section in the
articles menu has been extended. The
section on the Fine Art and
Industrial Exhibition in the General
History
section has also been extended, as has
Into the 21st Century
in
The History of Wednesbury
and the section on the
Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College in
Images of Wolverhampton Polytechnic
in the articles menu. Additions have
been made to the story of the
Star Aluminium
Company Limited in the
museum Engineering Hall
3 and to
The Decline and Fall in the story of
Sunbeam Motorcycles
in the motorcycle section
in the museum transport hall.
Additions have also been made to the story of
Wolverhampton Power
Station in Industries
Alongside the BCN in the
Other Trades Hall.
The history of Charles Lathe & Company Limited in the
Industries Section in the
Annals of Tipton has been
extended as has the history of
Joseph Evans & Sons in
the museum engineering
hall. 1919 to
1939 in the history of the
Villiers Engineering
Company Limited in the museum
engineering hall
has also been extended.
June 24: The section on the
Royal Hospital in Images
of Cleveland Road in the old
photographs section in the articles menu,
has been extended. The section on
Walsall pubs in
The Story of Walsall has also
been extended as has The
Early 20th Century. Additions have also been made to the story of
Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss
Limited in Industries
Alongside the Canal in the museum
Other Trades Hall. A
new addition to the list of
manufacturers in the
museum metalware hall is
J. & A. Bratt & Sons Limited of Ablow Street. The history of
David Etchells & Son Limited
in the industries section
in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended, as has the history of the
Darlaston Bolt & Nut Company.
Additions have also been made to
Into The 20th Century.
The section on industry in
The History of Wednesbury
has also been extended as has
Images of Wolverhampton From
Old Postcards and More
Images of Wolverhampton From Old Postcards, both in the
Old Photographs And Images Of Wolverhampton
And The Surrounding Area menu. Additions have also been made to the
story of C. & L. Hill
Limited in
The Industrial Town
section in
Willenhall Through the Ages.
May 24: The following sections in
Images of Wolverhampton Polytechnic have been extended:
The Department of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering, The 1970s
and Bereavements. A new
addition to Old Photographs and Images of
Wolverhampton and the Surrounding Area in the
Articles menu is
Views of the
Black Country in the Early 21st Century, in the following sections:
Wolverhampton City
Centre,
Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton,
Penn Road,
Wolverhampton,
Worcester Street,
Wolverhampton,
Raglan Street and Alexandra Street, Wolverhampton,
Corn
Hill, Springfield and Dixon Street, Wolverhampton,
Wolverhampton Canal
and Low Level Station,
Old Wolverhampton
Factories, Misc
Wolverhampton, Bilston Town Centre, and the Crooked House,
Walsall History
Fair and The Lock Museum, and
Darlaston Town
Centre. The
Churches and Religion section in
The History of Wednesbury has been extended, as has
The Borough Council and
its Works along with
Other Industries and
Early Industries.
Additions have been made to the
Final Years in
the story of E.C.C.
in the museum electrical
and electronic engineering hall.
April 24:
Additions have been made to the
foundries section,
in the industries section
of
West Bromwich Through the
Ages and to References.
Other new additions to the West Bromwich section are as follows: An
1861 trade directory, with the following sections -
trade directory 1,
trade directory 2,
trade directory 3,
trade directory 4,
trade directory 5 and
trade directory 6.
Also The Post War Years.
Additions have also been made to the following sections in
Willenhall Through the Ages:
The Industrial Town,
Public Houses, and
Into the 20th Century.
The story of Josiah Parkes &
Sons Limited in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum, has also been extended.
The Wolverhampton section
of Views of the Black Country,
a Record of Change has been extended. It is in
Old Photographs and Images of Wolverhampton
and the Surrounding Area in the Articles
menu. The following sections in
The Story of Walsall have
been extended: Recent Times
and References. The
Twentieth Century in
The Annals of Tipton has also been extended, as has
public houses as well as
The Growing Town.
March 24: Additions have been made to
the story of
Arthur H. Moss safe maker
and Cyrus Price in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum.
West Bromwich Through the
Ages has been also been extended with new sections about
Education and
The War Years and
additions to Poor Law
Union, Into the
Twentieth Century and
References. The History of
Wednesbury has also been extended with an addition to
The Growth of the Town. The
section about Electric
Traction on Wolverhampton Tramways in a
Public Service
Revolution, in the buses section in the
Transport Services
Hall in the Exhibition
has been also extended, as has the story of the
George Hotel in
The Story of Walsall. The section on the
South Staffordshire trams in The
Electric Construction Corporation section of the story of
Thomas Parker in
Lives of Local People in
People and Genealogy has also been
extended, as has the section on
Thomas Parker Limited. Also extended is the story of
Years of Growth, the story of
churches and chapels
and also the story of the inter-war years, all in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
February 24:
Additions have been made to the history of
John Harper & Company Limited,
Josiah Parkes & Sons Limited and the Anglo American
Lock Company Limited
in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum and also to the industries
section in
The Annals of Tipton. The following sections in
The Story of Walsall have
been extended: Pubs,
The Inter-War Years,
Recent Times, and
Into the 19th Century.
Additions have also been made to
A Description, Directory and
Images of Old Tettenhall, in the
Tettenhall Menu. The following
sections in The History of
Wednesbury have been extended:
The Borough Council and
its Works, Public Houses,
The Growth of the Town and Into the
21st Century. The section called
Pubs on old Postcards, in
Recent Times, in
Dudley in the Past has been extended. The story of
Iron and Steel Making
in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has also been extended.
West Bromwich Through the
Ages has been extended with a new section:
Into the Twentieth
Century. The section on
Recent Times in Coseley Through the Ages
has also been extended with a few adverts.
Views of Wolverhampton from the Late
Twentieth Century has been added to the
Old Photographs and Images Menu.
January 24:
Additions have been made to the story of
Archibald Kendrick and also Samuel Withers & Company Limited
(in
the wf to wz section) in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum and also to the story of
William Mills Limited and
William Sanders
& Company in the
industries section of The History of
Wednesbury.
The industries section in
The Annals of Tipton has also been extended. The story of West
Bromwich's Roads, Canals and Railways has been added to
West Bromwich Through the
Ages and additions have been made to
Churches and Religion.
Another new addition is the story of
West Bromwich's industry,
including sections on
foundries and
patternmaking, spring making,
Jensen cars,
J. Brockhouse &
Company Limited,
George Salter & Company Limited,
Archibald Kenrick and
Sons Limited, and
References.
More photos have been added to
the story of
F. H. Lloyd & Company Limited,
The 1940s and early 1950s in the
industries sections in
A Brief History of Darlaston
and The History of Wednesbury.
The section on the
Villiers Engineering Company in the story of
Sunbeam bicycles in
the museum transport hall
has been extended.
December 23:
Additions have been made to the story of
The Woodlands in the
Penn Menu, in
Local Areas, in the
Articles menu. Additions have also been
made to the story of Joseph
Benton and part
3 of the story of
James Gibbons
Limited, in the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers in the museum. Additions have been made
to Times of Change in
At the Flicks in the
Cinemas section
in the
Entertainment Hall in the
Exhibition. Additions
have also been made to More
Accessories, Cameras and Lenses in
The Corfield Story in
the museum entrance hall and also to
the story of Bayliss, Jones and
Bayliss Limited in the
metalware and holloware section in the
metalware hall in the
entrance hall in the
museum. Additions have also been made to
the story of Reade Brothers &
Company Limited in the
Other Trades Hall in
the museum.
Into the 20th Century
in
The Story of Walsall has been
extended, as has Walsall
Arboretum, Recent Times,
The Second Half of the
19th Century, The Inter-War
Years, Into the 19th
Century and A brief History of
Pelsall that is in Recent Times.
November 23:
The story of
Upper Penn in the 19th
Century in the Articles on Local
Areas Menu has been extended. The
Other Industries section
in The History of Wednesbury
has also been extended, as has
the cinemas section, the
trams section, the
Darlaston Pubs
section, Churches and
Chapels, Education,
Into the 20th Century
and the story of
Charles Richards & Sons Limited
and Wilkes Limited, both in
the industries section in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
Additions have also been made to
Recent Times,
The Inter-War Years and
the 12th to 14th century in
Dudley in the Past. Two new sections have been added to
West Bromwich Through the
Ages. They are The Oak
House and Early Growth and
The Poor Law Union and
the Municipal Borough. Additions have been made to the following
sections in
The Story of Walsall:
Recent Times,
The Second Half of the
19th Century, The Inter-War
Years, and Parish Churches
and Chapels of Ease, in
Churches and Religion, also
Into the 19th Century.
More photos have been added to
Into the 21st Century
and Churches
in The History of Wednesbury.
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