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Christmas cards and calendars

Currently Dudley Archives holds a small number of the Society Christmas Cards and Calendars as follows

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  • 1970, Christmas cards, 1970

  • 1971, Calendar, 1971: 12 original drawings of the Black Country by Austin Moseley, text by Winston Homer, DA/WS

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Over Summer 2024 the following additional material will be deposited in Dudley Archives

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  • 1967 to 1980s, BCS Christmas Cards: 43 individual designs, in Dudley Archives

  • 1973-2005 Black Country Calendar 1973. 1974, 1976-1999, 2001, 2005

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Images of the covers of the Christmas Cards and Calendars are already mounted on this web site - linked via the buttons above.

First Day Covers and postcards

In the 1970s the Society produced a number of first day covers. These are held in Dudley Archives, and images of them have been placed on the web site.

 

  • 1970, First Day Cover - Reopening of the Titford Canal

  • 1972, First Day Cover - Aaron Manby. 1822-1972. (10 June 1972)

  • 1973, First Day Cover - The Wesley Riots, Wednesbury,1743- 1973 (20 October 1973)

  • 1973, First Day Cover - Wolverhampton Trolleybus Inauguration 50th Anniversary. 1923-1973

  • 1973, First Day Cover - Reopening of Dudley canal Tunnel

  • 1979, First Day Cover - The Agenoria, 1829-1979

 

Two sets of postcards were also produced around the same time.  These are again held in Dudley Archives, and images of them have been placed on the web site

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  • Set of five `Past and Present` postcards. (in presentation envelope)

  • Set of seven chain making postcards

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Artefacts

In the 1970s and 1980s the Society commissioned a number of commemorative items as follows.

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  • 1967 Medallion to commemorate the closure of Baggeridge Colliery

  • 1969 Medallion to commemorate 1769 to 1969 Canals and motorways

  • 1972 Medallion to commemorate 150th anniversary of sailing of SS Aaron Manby

  • 1976 Medallion to commemorate 200th anniversary of Bloomfield Colliery Engine

  • 1979 Goblet produced for the Society to mark the 150th Anniversary of the running of the Stourbridge Lion in the USA

  • 1980 Medallion to commemorate the closure of Blast Furnace "Elizabeth" at Bilston in 1976

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Examples of the second and third of these are held in the Society Archive. Photographs of all of them are mounted on this web site and can be accessed using the button above.  In addition the Society Archive contains a number of other artefacts.

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  • Bulldog stickers

  • Black Country Society Stickers

  • Black Country Society badges

  • Black Country Society cup

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Maps

The following maps are held in either Dudley Archives (DA) or the Society Archives (SA)

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  • 1970, Birmingham Canal system and neighbouring canals based on the 1901 canal map, DA

  • 1972, Black Country Tramway System about 1920. (1972), SA

  • Undated, Black Country and its rural hinterland, SA

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