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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.
April 17: A new addition to the
articles menu, and to the
listed buildings section is the
story of Beckminster House and
the Sparrow family. The story of
Radio Wulfrun, New Cross Hospital's radio station, has been added to the
Health Services menu
in the health section of the
Services Hall in
the Exhibition. The
story of Union engines has been greatly extended in the
Josiah Parkes section in
the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers. A larger photograph of the interior of St. Jude's Church has
been added to the St. Jude's Church page
in the listed buildings section. A section
about Albert Peters, Darlaston's artist sign writer, has been added to the
World War 2 section in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and the section on industries
has been extended, as has the story of
Darlaston's windmill,
and The Inter-War Years
with a section about the
local councillors who had streets named after them.
Photos of assembly work in 1938 have been added to the
story of E.C.C. in
the museum electrical
engineering hall. A copy of the
Star 18/50 manual
has been added to the
Star Cars
section in the museum
transport hall.
March 17: Further additions have been
made to the Gazetteer of Lock
and Key Makers in the museum
locks and safes hall:
Chubb, Legge,
Bates,
Cyrus Price,
Thomas Skidmore, and
Gibbons.
Additions have also been made to the
story of Butler's Brewery,
Billinghams, the car dealer,
Fullwood tyres,
Steens printers in
the printers section
in the museum printing hall,
the Wearwell story in
the bicycle section
in the museum
transport hall, and the
industries section in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The section on old shops in the
exhibition shopping
arcade has been extended. A menu
has been added along with a page on
recent shop closures. A new
addition to
A Brief History of Darlaston
in the
industries section, is a
section on John Golcher Limited
of King's Hill. Additions have been made to
Into the Twentieth
Century, and World War One
survivors. Photographs of the factory interior have been added
to the story of Joseph
Evans & Sons in the
museum engineering hall.
Interior views of
the E.C.C. factory in 1902 have been added to the
story of E.C.C. in
the museum electrical
engineering hall. The story of
horse racing at Broad Meadows
in Horse Racing at
Wolverhampton has been extended.
February 17: The
Thomas Parker story has
been extended with additions to the section on the
Liverpool Overhead Railway,
the section about the
South Staffs Tramway, and the section about
The Oxford System of electricity
distribution. The section about the
electrification of the
South Staffs tramway in
A Public Transport
Revolution has been extended, as has the story of
Darlaston trams, and
nail and clock making in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The story of the ECC
has been extended with details of the
Elwell-Parker system
for electricity distribution. The section on
ploughing machines
in the story of
John Smith of Coven, in the
museum transport hall has been extended. The
industry section in
Wednesbury in the 1950s and
1960s has also been extended, and the
Rollings family history
section, in the family histories
section, has been
brought up-to-date. The story of
John Lea and Taylor's music
shop has been added to the
late 19th century
section of
The Story of Walsall, along
with additions to the section on
Walsall Power Station.
Additions have been made to the story of
St. Catherine's Convalescent
Home in the Health
section.
January 17: Some early adverts have been
added to the story of Rubery Owen
in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
along with a section on
Education. The World War One
Casualties section, the story of
New Roads,
Darlaston's trams, the
sections on GKN,
Pubs,
Close of the Century,
Into the Twentieth
Century, Industries, Charles Richards,
John Golchers, and
Notable People have all been extended. The story of
Joseph Evans and Sons
in the museum
Engineering hall has also been extended, as has the story of
Wolverhampton's Wholesale Market in the
Lost Buildings section, and the section on
the Staffordshire Tramways
Company in A Public
Transport Revolution. Additions to The
History of Wednesbury have been made in the following sections: the story of
early industries,
religion,
tube making,
transport,
growth,
Local Government,
The story of the Patent
Shaft & Axletree Company, the story of
F. H. Lloyd & Company Limited,
Electrical
Equipment Manufacturers, and
some shops and businesses in
the early 20th century. The story of
Bean cars in the
museum transport hall has
been extended. The story of the Midland Aero
Club's meetings at Dunstall Park Racecourse has been extended.
December 16:
A walk along old
Bilston Street in Old Photographs and
Images of Old Wolverhampton has been greatly extended. A new entry in
the Old Photographs and
Images of Old Wolverhampton menu is
scenes of Wolverhampton in the
1970s. Additions have been made to
Notable People,
Close of the Century,
Industries,
Churches,
Schools, and
GKN in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and additions have also been made to the
Frisky section in the museum
transport hall. The story of the
British Electric Traction
Company is a new addition to
A Public Transport
Revolution. Photos of The Woodhouse have been added to the
Edwin Butler Bayliss section
in the exhibition
art gallery, and a photo of a
James Butler lock has
been added to the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers. Additions have also been made to the story of
Edwin Richards & Sons
in the industry section in The
History of Wednesbury. The story of
The White House in Lower Green,
Tettenhall has been added to the
Tettenhall menu and the listed buildings
menu. A history of some
houses in Lower Street, also in the Tettenhall menu, has been extended.
Additions have been made to the story of A.B.C. Coupler Limited
in the museum transport
hall.
November 16: The story of the 1902 Wolverhampton
Art and Industrial Exhibition has been added to the
articles menu and the
museum entrance hall. The story of
Josiah Parkes in
the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers has been greatly extended, and a new section, telling the
story of Bradley & Foster,
has been added to
Iron and Steel Making
in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
as has more information on John and George Addenbrooke. The
History of Wednesbury has been extended, with additions to the following
sections: Industry,
Tube Making,
Education,
Local Government,
and also to the industries
section in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The story of
Penn Village in the 20th
century in the Penn Menu has
been greatly extended with some new photos, and additions have been made to
the story of the farms and fields
of Upper Penn. Several photos have been added to the story of the
Zeppelin air raid in
January, 1916. A new addition to the
articles menu, and
the exhibition is
the first part of Some
Wolverhampton Shops in the late Nineteenth Century. Additions have also
been made to
Wolf and
Shacklock
motorcycles.
October 16: Additions have been made to
Into the Twentieth
Century, and the
21st Century Rebuild in
the Recent Times section
of A Brief History of Darlaston.
Additions have also been made to
Into the Twentieth Century
in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The story of
Wolverhampton
Corporation's electrically powered trams has been added to
A Public Transport
Revolution. Additions have also been made to the story of
Turner cars in the museum
transport hall. The story of
Crabtree Limited in the
late 1940s, and product details from
Kirkpatrick's 1925 catalogue have been added to the
Industry section in
The Story of Walsall. Further
additions have been made to the story of
The Liverpool Overhead
Railway in the
Thomas Parker section,
the Products page
in the story of Electric
Construction Company, the
products page in the
history of the Turner
Manufacturing Company Limited, in the
museum Engineering Hall,
and the story of Bayliss, Jones
and Bayliss in Industries
Alongside the BCN, in the museum
Other Trades Hall.
Additions have been made to the following parts of the
bicycle section in
the museum transport hall:
Joseph Devey, and
Cogent / Wearwell. The
story of Josiah Parkes in
the
Gazetteer of Lock and Key
Makers in the museum has been extended.
September 16: Additions have been made to the
pubs section, the
Bentley section,
Iron and Steel,
The Inter-War Years, and the
story of Bentley Hall Brickworks in
A Brief History of Darlaston,
and to religion and churches,
and Canals, Roads and
Railways
in Willenhall
Through the Ages. The 1960s, a
Decade of Change has been extended, as has the story of
Ceres Works, and
Bayliss, Jones & Bayliss in
Industry Alongside the
BCN. More products have been added to the
Crabtree products page in the
industries section of
The Story of Walsall, along
with a section on Crabtree's
magazine, and the
Royal visit to Lincoln Works in 1962. The history of the Chromographic
Enamel Company Limited in the
enamel signs section in
the museum metalware hall
has been greatly extended. The story of
John Harper & Company Limited,
Samuel Parkes,
and H. & T. Vaughan
in the Gazetter of Lock and
Keymakers has also been extended, along with the following sections:
Joseph and John
Waine, Anglo American,
Charles Aubin,
Samuel Baker, David Bate and
Jonah Banks,
George Harley,
Cyrus Price,
Squire, Imperial, Lowe
and Fletcher, and A. Lewis,
John Worrall,
Kieft,
Goodwin,
Legge. The
Turner
Wolverhampton Reunion has been added to the
rallies section in the
museum transport hall.
August 16: Several adverts, and text have been
added to the industries
section, Iron and Steel
Making, Keay,
Charles Richards,
The Woden,
Samuel Platt, Recent Times,
Bentley,
World War 2, and Into
the Twentieth Century in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
Sections on trams,
the people who returned from the
First World War, cinemas,
and the post war years have also been added,
and the W.W.1 casualties
section has been extended. Some adverts have been added to the story of
Thomas Parker Limited in the
Thomas Parker section. A
new addition to the museum's entrance hall
is the story of Tarmac the
construction company. Additions have also been made to the
industries section,
Sanders
Switchgear, and
the Richard Garbett page
in
A history of Wednesbury. A
1911 catalogue has
been added to the history
of Joseph Evans in the
museum engineering hall.
Additions have been made to the story of
Cogent/Wearwell
bicycles in the museum
transport hall, and to the story of
Turner Sports Cars.
Photos of a corrugating machine have been added to the
Bigwood section in
the museum engineering
hall.
July 16: The Willenhall entry in the
1818 Staffordshire General &
Commercial Directory has been added to
Life in the 19th Century
in Willenhall
Through the Ages. Details of a patent have been added to the
Elwell-Parker section in
the story of
Thomas Parker. A new
addition to the articles menu is the
story of Wolverhampton's House of
Correction. Additions have been made to the
Griffin Works section in
industry
alongside the BCN. A new article,
Inventive Genius in Electrical Engineering: ECC of Wolverhampton
has been added to the articles menu
and to the story of Thomas
Parker. The story of James Russell & Sons Limited in the
tubes section in
A history of Wednesbury has been extended. Some images have been added
to Recent Times in
A Brief History of Darlaston.
The story of Mander-Kidd inks
has been added to the Manders
section in the museum entrance hall.
Three new additions to the articles menu
are: The story of Steelway,
Long Ago Days When Carts
Trundled Over the Cobbles, and
The Workers Who Toiled In
the Heat of the Factories, all by Dr. Carl Chinn. Additions have been
made to
From California And Montana With Lots 'N Between in
In Between Times.
June 16: Additions have been made to the
following sections in
A Brief History of Darlaston:
Nail Making and Clock Making,
New Roads and a Canal,
Notable People,
Recent Times,
Industries,
Charles Richards,
Wilkins and Mitchell,
David Etchells,
GKN,
Wellman, Smith & Owen,
Rubery Owen,
Rubery Owen Group,
Nuts and Bolts (Darlaston) Limited,
Iron and Steel Making, and
Garringtons.
The story of 'Iron Mad' John
Wilkinson in the articles menu
has been updated. The following sections of the story of
Thomas Parker have been
updated: Early Years,
Metropolitan Railway, and
Return to Coalbrookdale. The
Rollings family story in
the family history section has been
updated. Additions have been made to the following sections in
A history of Wednesbury:
F. H. Lloyd, and
Industries. The story of
The Old Steam Mill
in industry
alongside the BCN has been brought up-to-date. Additions have been made
to Into the Twentieth
Century in Willenhall
Through the Ages, and to Bayliss, Jones and
Bayliss, also in industry
alongside the BCN.
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