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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.
January 18: Additions have been made to
the pubs section, and
pub photos;
Samuel Platt Limited and
Charles Richards & Sons Limited in the
Industries section, and
Into the Twentieth
Century in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and a section about local war hero
Fred Brown has been added to the
World War Two section. Additions have also been made to the following
sections in
The Story of Walsall:
Recent Times, and
John Lea & Taylor's Music Shop.
Some adverts have been added to the
industries section in Willenhall
Through the Ages, and additions have been made to the following
sections: Canals, Roads and
Railways, Local Government,
Religion and Churches,
Local Personalities and
Prominent Families,
Into the Twentieth Century,
1818 Staffordshire General and Commercial Directory,
1918 Midland Counties of
England Trades Directory,
Life in the Nineteenth
Century, References, and
Public Houses. The following sections in the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers have been extended:
Yale and Towne Manufacturing
Company, Abel Fletcher and
Sons Limited, W. M.
Pinson and Son Limited, and
Withers.
December 17: The
section on Wednesbury War Memorial
in World War One and the War Memorial in
The History of Wednesbury
has been extended, as has the
Casualties Section in
Into the Twentieth
Century, and Notable
19th Century Darlastonians in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The history of
William Sanders & Company in the industry section of
The History of Wednesbury
has also been extended. More photographs have been added to the story of Wearwell, Wolf, and
Wulfruna motorcycles in the motorcycle section
in the museum transport hall.
More additions have been made to the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers in the following sections:
J. Banks and Company Limited,
Clifford Brothers,
Thomas Poole and Sons,
John Sawbridge and Sons Limited,
A and E Squire, and
John Waine and Sons
(Willenhall) Limited. Additions have also been made to the story of
Wolverhampton Die
Casting Limited in the
museum engineering hall
3, Herbertson &
Company Limited in
Industries Alongside the BCN, The
history of E.C.C.
in the museum electrical
engineering hall, and the
story of Billinghams in
the Exhibition
transport hall. The story of
John
Thompson Limited has been extended.
November 17: The following sections in
the story of Rubery Owen & Company
Limited in the
Industries Section in
A Brief History of Darlaston
have been extended: Expansion,
Easiclene, and The Later Years.
The links section has been updated, as has
the genealogical links section.
Additions have been made to the
following sections in The
History of Wednesbury:
Education and schools,
Further Education and the Municipal Technical School and College of Commerce,
Tame Valley Site of the West
Bromwich College of Commerce and Technology, the story of
Edwin Richards and Sons
in the industry section,
the growth of the town in the
nineteenth century,
The Borough Council and its Works,
History of Public Houses,
Into The Twenty First
Century, Churches and
Religion, References, and Roads,
Canals, and Railways. The story of the
Turner Manufacturing Company
Limited in
Engineering Hall 2 in the museum,
has been extended. The Story of
John Marston and his family in
Family Histories in People and
Genealogy has also been extended, as has the story of
Wolverhampton's Lorain
trams in
Electric Tramcars in the Black Country in
A Public Transport
Revolution.
October 17: Additions have been made to
the story of
William Sanders and Company (Wednesbury) Limited, Switchgear manufacturers, and
Into the 21st Century in The
History of Wednesbury. The story of the
1926 Agricultural Exhibition at
Tettenhall has been added to the
exhibitions menu and the
articles menu. The story of the
Wolverhampton Municipal School
of Art and Crafts has been added to the
articles menu and to the
museum entrance hall. The story of
Clyno motorcycles,
and DMW
motorcycles in
the motorcycle section
in the museum transport hall
has been extended, as has the story of
Clyno cars in the
cars section, also in the museum transport hall.
Additions have also been made to the following sections: the story of
Guy cars, in
the cars section in the
museum transport hall, the story of
Guy commercial
vehicles, in the commercial vehicle section in the
museum transport hall,
the story of Guy buses, in the
bus section in the
museum transport hall, the
story of the Sunbeam Motor Car Company Limited in the
cars section in the
museum transport hall, and the story of
A.J.S. motorcycles in the
motorcycles section in the museum transport hall.
September 17: The story of
Cornelius Whitehouse in
the tubes section in
Wednesbury Industries in The
History of Wednesbury has been extended. The Story of
Brotherton Tubes in
Industries Alongside the
BCN, in the museum
Other Industries Hall, has been updated. The story of
The Woodlands at Penn has been
added to the Penn menu, and the
articles menu. Additions have been
made to the following sections in the story of
Sunbeam Cars:
The French
Connection, and
Sunbeam, Talbot, and Darracq. More details of the
slum properties at Town
End Bank has been added to
The Story of Walsall.
Mechanical details of the
Bean 14 have been added to the
story of Bean cars in
the museum
transport hall. Additions have been made to the following sections in
the story of Thomas Parker
in the museum electrical
and electronic engineering hall:
Early Years, and
The Elwell-Parker steam engine.
Another article from 'The Engineer' has been added to the
Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss story
in Industries Alongside the
BCN. The story of Charles
Richards & Sons in the
Industries Section of
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended. A new addition to the
vehicle rallies section
is a report on the
2017 Turner
Wolverhampton Reunion at Bantock Park.
August 17: A new addition to the story
of Sunbeam cars in the
museum transport hall is a
section on the
mechanics from the Experimental Department. The story of the
Owen Organisation in the
Industries section of
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been greatly extended with many new sections and additions to existing
sections: The Early Years,
Expansion,
Easiclene,
The Later Years,
Sons of Rest,
Subsidiaries,
C and L Hill,
Bentley Hall Brick Company,
Chains Limited,
Nuts & Bolts (Darlaston) Limited,
Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company,
A. G. Sutherland Limited,
Salopian Engineers Limited,
Motor Panels (Coventry) Limited,
Rubery, Owen & Company Limited,
Wrexham, Rogers & Jackson
Limited, Electro-Hydraulics
Limited, Rubery Owen
(Warrington) Limited, Camelinat
& Company Limited, Birmingham. A section containing images of pages
from John Waine & Sons'
catalogues has been added to the
John Waine & Sons section in the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers. Images have also been added to the
Lowe & Fletcher section,
the section about
Heenan, Beddow and Sturmey Limited, and the
Yale section.
July 17: Additions have been made to the
Elwell-Parker Limited
section, in
the story of Thomas Parker,
and the History of Joseph
Evans and Sons. A new addition to the
articles menu is the story of the Wolverhampton
1884 Fine Art and Industrial
Exhibition. James
Allen bicycles have been added to the
bicycles menu in the
museum transport hall. An
exhibition section has been added to
History in the Community.
Details of an
Australian trial of a Guy gas producer have been added to the
story of Guy
Motors in the museum
transport hall, along with Guy photos in
The Early
Inter-War Years,
World War 2, and
Images of Guy
Vehicles. The story of
Guy Motors passenger
vehicles has been extended with the addition of an article about the
OND chassis, which has been added to
The Late 1920s.
A new addition to the story of
Guy cars is a contemporary
article from an Australian magazine. The story of
Henry Meadows
Limited in the
museum engineering hall has been extended, and an article about the
Meadows 1,795 cc.
engine has been added to the Meadows section. A photo of Lea Road
Congregational Church has been added to the 'People
of Bantock House', and the story of
Clyno motorcycles in
the museum transport hall
has been extended.
June 17: A new section has been added to
the Local Personalities and
Prominent Families section of
Willenhall Through the Ages.
It is the Willenhall entry in
Harrison, Harrod & Company's 1861 Staffordshire Directory. An
advert for Thomas Cooper,
Junior has been added to the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers. Additions have been made to the story of
The Old Steam Mill
in Wolverhampton.
A Brief History of Darlaston
has been extended with additions to
Into the Twentieth
Century the story of
Charles Richards & Sons Limited in the
Industries section, and Recent Times.
A new section showing lost
buildings has been added. The
Darlaston section in
Harrison, Harrod & Company's Staffordshire Directory has been added to
Years of Growth. Additions have been made to the story of
Star cars in
World War One, in the museum
transport hall, and to the history of the
Patent Shaft and Axletree
Company, in the industries
section of The
History of Wednesbury. Photos of old Willenhall have been added to
The Development of
Local Government, and
Into the 20th Century in
Willenhall Through the Ages.
May 17: The industries section in
The Story of Walsall has been
extended with a section on
Eyland & Sons. Further additions have been made to the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers: John Badger &
Cookson & Company, J. E.
Bates & Sons Limited, the
Chatwood Safe Company, and Colledge & Bridgen Limited,
Bramah, W. Beard & Son,
H. & T. Vaughan,
Hobbs, Hart & Company,
Yale, and
W. & R. Leggott. Photos
have been added to the story of
Snow Hill Congregational Church
in the History of Penn U.R.C.
Additions have been made to the story of
Bean Lorries,
A.J.S. cars, and
Guy Motors in the
museum transport hall. The additions to Guy Motors are in the following
sections:
The Guy 'ON'
from Australia,
Guy adverts,
The Inter-War
Years,
The Late 1920s,
The Guy 6-wheeled
chassis, and The Post
War Years. Additions have also been made to the story of
The Patent Shaft & Axletree
Company, and the story of
Sanders
Switchgear in the Industries
Section in The
History of Wednesbury. The story of a
racing tragedy,
and the death of
Tom Barrett in the
history of Sunbeam cars in the museum
transport hall has been extended.
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