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Tony Brockhouse's illustration of Jim Jones' Black Country Ballads
The images below, drawn in the 1970s and provided by Tony Brockhouse's family, were originally intended to illustrate some of Jim Jones' Black Country Ballads in a book. However, because of funding issues, the book was never produced. On this page we are able to present them in something like the form for which they were intended.
Joby Jack's Gardin
From "From under the smoke"
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From "Widening Circles"
Jonah and the Wheel
Grorty Liza Monumint
From "Widening Circles"
Isaiah's Rhubarb Wine
Dynamic Tenshun
From "Widening Circles"
Flyin' Objecks
From Warwickshire and Worcestershire Life
Air Dews
From the Dudley Herald
Some queer folk
From the Dudley Herald
A jug o' coed wearter
From the Dudley Herald
Breakdown Ballad of the Steelmen
Match of the day
From the Dudley Herald
Salt o' the earth
From the Dudley Herald
Pigs pudding and cabbage
From "From under the smoke"
Tony Brockhouse in the 1990s
Drawing for Jim Jones' "Thought for the Wick" in the Dudley Herald