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February 19: Additions have been made to
the early history of Turner
cars and to
Decline and
Fall in the
history of Sunbeam Motorcycles in the museum transport hall
and to the Wolverhampton
Railway Gazette in the
exhibition
transport services hall. Improved photos have been added along with the
following new articles:
Priestfield Station
1854 to 1972, Sins of
the Fathers, Dudley
in 1928 and A visit to
Wolverhampton in 1932. Additions have also been made to the story of
Wearwell Cycles and
the story of the
Star Engineering Company and the
Star
factories in the museum transport hall.
The story of GKN in the
industries section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended.
Details of Thomas Parker's locomotives have been added to
the locomotive menu
in the museum transport hall.
A new addition to the articles menu
is Richard Sells' description of the
unveiling of the John Wilkinson
blue plaque at Bradley. The story of
Joseph
Devey and his cycles and the story of the
Humber Cycles manufactured in Wolverhampton has been extended in the
cycles section in the museum transport hall.
The industries section in Willenhall
Through the Ages has been extended.
January 19: Some details of
Fisher & Company who made
locks in Wolverhampton, has been added to the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers. A
detailed account of
Jack Turner's early career has been added to the
Turner Sports Car
section in the museum
transport hall. Additions have been made to the
pubs section in
Shops and Pubs in Old Penn,
and to Penn Village in the 20th
Century. More photos have been added to the story of
Light Delivery Vehicles
(LDV), the history of
Turner Sports Cars and the story of
DKR Scooters Limited,
all in the museum transport hall.
Additions have been made to the history of the
Yale and Towne Manufacturing
Company, John Harper and
Company Limited and Henry Harrison
and Sons Limited in the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers. Additions have also been made to
The Industrial Town in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The story of
Comrade Cycles in the
industries section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended, as has part
three of the history of Rubery
Owen. The story of
Wednesbury's pubs in The
History of Wednesbury has also been extended.
A brief history of
Brownhills and A brief
history of Pelsall have been added to
Recent Times in
The Story of Walsall.
December 18: The story of the Patent
Shaft Steel Works and Old Park Works has been greatly extended in the
industries section in The
History of Wednesbury:
The Early Years, Old
Park Works, Take Over,
Development Schemes,
The Factory in the Late
1970s, and Closure.
Additions have been made to the following sections in the story of
William Butler & Company Limited:
More Changes,
A New Order, and
Further Expansion.
Additions have also been made to
The Early Years in the
story of local historian, the late
Jim Boulton, in
Lives of Local People. The story of
Her Majesty's Theatre in Walsall, in
Into the 19th Century,
in
The Story of Walsall has been
extended. Photos have been added to the pubs
section, the history of
Samuel Platts, and the story of
Rubery Owen & Company Limited in the
Industries section, and to
Churches and Chapels,
and Recent
Times in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
Additions have been made to the following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages: Public
Houses, Life in the
19th Century, The
Development of Local Government, and
Religion and Churches.
November 18: A memory of E. H. Burton
and Sons, ironmongers, has been added to
Recent Times in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and additions have been made to the
history of Rubery Owen.
The story of Caldmore Green Picture House, and the Empire Cinema in Freer
Street has been added to
Into the 20th Century
in
The Story of Walsall, and a
photo has been added to Recent
Times. The story of
J. Brockhouse &
Company Limited and the Brockhouse Group, in the museum
Engineering Hall
has been extended. A
new addition to The Annals of
Tipton is the story of Tipton's
roads and railways. A copy of
the L.D.V. By-Van and
Tri-Van service manual has been added to the
L.D.V. section in the museum transport hall,
and a copy of the
specifications and the service instructions for a D.M.W. Bambi scooter has
been added to the
D.M.W. story,
also in the museum transport hall.
Additions have also been made to the following sections in The
History of Wednesbury: The
Growth of the Town and
Into the 21st Century. St.
Peter's Medieval Chancel has been added to the
religion menu in
history in the community and
the articles menu.
October 18: A
George Cheadle lock has
been added to the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers. A new addition to The Growth of the Town in The
History of Wednesbury is the
Wednesbury entry in Harrison,
Harrod and Company's 1861 Directory and Gazetteer of Staffordshire,
along with several adverts from 1861. A
police service menu
has been added to the
services hall in
the exhibition, along
with an article about PC James Jones.
The following sections in
A Brief History of Darlaston
have been updated: Local
Government, Notable
19th Century Darlastonians,
Rubery Owen, and Rubery Owen The
Early Years. The story of the
Darlaston Iron Bridge and
Roofing Company, and The Bridge and Roofing Company has been added to
the Darlaston Industries
section. Additions have also been made to
Star commercial vehicles
in the museum transport hall. A lovely photo of Shannon's Mill has been added
to the industries section in
The Story of Walsall, and
photos have been added to the pubs
section.
The story of
John Bagnall and Sons Limited
has been added to the
Industries section in The
History of Wednesbury, and the story of
Cornelius Whitehouse has
been extended.
September 18: A section about
Captain J. S. Irving
has been added to
After the War in the story of
Sunbeam cars. A new
addition to the Darlaston
listed buildings section is
All Saints' Church
in Walsall Road. The story of
Churches and Religion has been added to
The Annals of Tipton along
with the story of local canals.
Additions have been made to the story of
Sydney Guy in
Lives of Local People, to the
story of Bean Cars and
Bean lorries
in the museum transport hall,
to the Arrival and Reception in
Queen Victoria's Visit to
Wolverhampton, and to the story of the
Patent Shaft and Axletree
Company in the industries section
in The
History of Wednesbury. Photos have been added to the following sections in the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers:
Chubb,
George Price, Richard M.
Lord, Arthur H. Moss,
Thomas Skidmore & Son, and Stephen Cox & Son Limited.
The section about clock
making in Darlaston,
in
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended. Details of the
2018 Turner Wolverhampton Reunion have been added to the
rallies section in the museum transport hall.
August 18: The story of
Stafford Road
Gasworks in part eight of
Industries Alongside the
BCN has been extended. A photo has been added to the
story of King's Hill School
in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and the story of Herbert's Park Colliery and Ironworks has been added to
Early Growth.
The S.T.D. section in
the story of Sunbeam cars
in the museum transport hall
has also been extended. The
naming of Thomas Parker Drive has been added to the
Thomas Parker section in
the museum's Electrical
and Electronic Engineering Hall. The
History of Mander Brothers in
the Museum entrance hall has been
divided into sections and greatly updated. New sections include
The Early Years,
Wednesfield Works,
John Street Works,
Heath Town Works,
Charles Bassett's Memories, and
Sports and Social Activities. An
addition has been made to the Mills
section in Bushbury
Parish and People, and the story of the
A.J.S. building in Retreat Street, in the
A.J.S.
factories section has been extended. The following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages have been updated:
The Development of
Local Government, and
Into The 20th Century.
July 18: Additions have been made to the following sections in
Guy commercial vehicles
in the museum transport hall:
The Early
Inter-War Years,
Into The 1930s,
World War 2,
The Post
War Years,
The Final Chapter, and
Industrial
Relations and the Welfare Club. Additions have also been made to the
following sections in
Guy buses in the museum transport hall:
The Early Inter-War
Years, Into The
1930s, World War
2, The Post War
Years, The Final
Chapter, and
Industrial Relations and the Welfare Club. The
Guy cars section in the museum transport hall
has also been updated. The story of the
Rev. Octavius
F. Walton in
Lives of Local People has been updated. Additions have been made to the
following sections in the
list of bicycle
manufacturers in the museum transport hall:
Joseph Devey & Company,
and Humber & Company
Limited. A new addition to both the
articles menu and the
Tettenhall menu is The
history of Tettenhall Wood House - 1833 to 1969. Additions have been
made to the story of
Viking Cycles in the museum
transport hall. New links have been added to the
links page which has also been updated.
June 18: Additions have been made to
Into the 21st Century,
Tube Making,
Old Park Works and the
Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, and the story of
William Sanders
& Company Limited
in the industries section
in The
History of Wednesbury, and to the following sections in
The Story of Walsall:
St. Matthew's Church, and
Iron Foundries. Details of
the Russian Colliery, and additions to the story of Bills and Mills have been added to
Iron and Steel Making
in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and additions have also been made to the following:
Recent Times,
Years of Growth,
Industries,
pubs, and
World War Two.
The Reverend Bill Enoch's
memories of Chubb in the Chubb
menu in the museum
engineering hall has been updated, as has the story of
A.J.S. cars in the museum transport hall.
The following additions have been made to the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers: John
Arnold & Company, William
and John Lea, and the section on
George Price Limited has
been extended, as has the section on
Hill's Foundry in
Part 5 of
Industries Alongside the
BCN, the section about
Eagle Works, and the section about
the wharves in
part 2.
May 18: The story of
Reynolds' Restaurant in
the museum food hall has been
extended. A new addition to the Articles
on Local History section is the
Story of the Wolverhampton Town
Commissioners. Another addition to the same section is the story of the
Charter of Incorporation and the
Wolverhampton Centenary Pageant. A new menu,
articles about Wednesbury has
been added to the main Wednesbury menu. The
new menu contains a new article,
Wednesbury adverts from 1908.
Additions have been made to the following sections in The
History of Wednesbury:
Roads, Canals and Railways,
Churches and Religion,
The Growth of the Town, and
The Borough Council and
its Works. The history
of Bean cars in the cars
section in the museum transport hall
has been extended. Additions have also been made to the following sections
in the story of Thomas Parker:
The Early Years, and
Return to Coalbrookdale. The
following sections in Willenhall
Through the Ages have been updated:
Local Personalities and
Prominent Families,
Life in the Nineteenth Century, and
Pigot & Company’s Staffordshire
directory of 1842.
April 18:
A Stroll along Old
Bilston Street in
Old Photographs and Images of Wolverhampton
and the Surrounding Area has been extended, as has the story of
E. C. and J. Keay Limited in
the
Industries Section in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The story of the Mechanical and
Electrical Engineering Company Limited and EMCO Limited in the
industries section in
The Story of Walsall has also been
extended, as has the story of
ABC Coupler Limited in the
train section of
the museum transport hall,
and the story of
G. H. Kidson Limited in the
museum food hall. Another new addition has been added to
the Walsall menu. It is a section containing
adverts from the 1934 and 1936
editions of the Walsall Red Book and Directory. More additions have been
made to
The Story of Walsall in the
following sections: Hospitals,
Churches and Religion,
Second Half of the
Nineteenth Century, and
Into the Nineteenth
Century. Additions have been made to the following pages in the
Wolverhampton Street Names section in the
articles menu: Street names B,
Street names G,
Street names O,
Street names S, and
Street names W.
March 18: A new addition to
Old Photographs and Images of Wolverhampton
and the Surrounding Area is
views from St. Peter's Church tower, taken in 1988. Photographs have
been added to the Recent
Times section in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The following additions have been made to the
story of Star
cars in the museum transport hall:
higher quality images in the section about the
Star photo
album, in the
Star Works
section, and images of Dick Lisle's racing achievements in
The Racing Years.
The history of F. H. Lloyd and Company
Limited has been greatly increased in size and linked to both the
Darlaston industry section
and the Wednesbury industry
section. It includes hundreds of photos, some from the staff magazine,
and factory photos. A new addition to the
trams and buses section
in the exhibition
transport services hall and old
photographs and images of Wolverhampton and the surrounding area is a
selection of photos from
Roger Taft's wonderful photograph collection. Photos have been added to
New Roads, and
Recent Times in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
February 18: The story of
phosphorus production at Heath
Town in the E.C.C. section in
the story of Thomas Parker
has been extended. An
education menu
has been added to the
Services Hall in the
Exhibition. It contains a history of the
Wolverhampton School of Art
and Crafts, a history of
St. Stephen's Church of England Primary School, and
Images of Wolverhampton Polytechnic,
Images of the Polytechnic's 'C Block',
and Images of the Old Post Office
in Lichfield Street. The last three sections have also been added to
Old Photographs and Images of Wolverhampton
and the Surrounding Area. Photographs of Bill Perkins and his family
have been added to the section on
Sunbeam mechanics
in the Sunbeam cars section
in the museum transport hall.
Additions have been made to the story of
Thomas Perry and Son
Limited, and John
Evans has been added to the Gazetteer
of Lock and Key Makers, in the
museum engineering hall.
Some photos of Bayliss,
Jones and Bayliss fencing and gates have been added to the story of
Bayliss, Jones and Bayliss
in part one of
Industries alongside the
BCN. Photos have been added to the following sections in
The Story of Walsall:
Pubs,
Early 19th Century,
World War 1 and
Taylor's Music Shop.
Additions have been made to
Wolverhampton Street Names in the
articles menu.
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