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Black Country Society
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Black Country Society Blog
Welcome to the Black Country Society blog. We will post here on a variety of topics of interest to Society members. A (moderated) comment facility is available so readers can share their own thoughts on the topics that are posted. We would love to hear your ideas and material for future blog posts in all these categories. Please do get in touch with us using the webmaster contact form on the contact page.
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BCS bookshop back open for business!
Celebrating the re-opening of the Black Country Society online shop
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Feb 171 min read
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Audio tours in the Black Country – an appeal for help
The Black Country Society has recently been approached by a company whose product is the mobile phone app Guidl. Guidl is specifically...
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Jul 26, 20242 min read
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Black Country Society Walk around the canal network from Dudley Port. 12th June 2024
Report by Dave Galley, Photographs by Graham Beckley It's too good to be true that so far this year we have enjoyed good weather on our...
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Jun 19, 20242 min read
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The Quarry Bank walk - June 5th 2024
Following the route of the walk surveyed by Ned Williams and John James. 2001 – see here. Dave Galley wrote the following report of the...
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Jun 14, 20246 min read
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Black Country Society Walk around Willenhall - Wednesday 15th May 2024.
Walk around Willenhall
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May 26, 20244 min read
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Black Country Society Walk around Wolverhampton's War memorials May 8th 2024
Report by Dave Galley Suddenly it's that time of year when the members of the society look out their walking gear for the BCS summer...
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May 21, 20243 min read
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Apr 12, 20240 min read
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Babolutely Fabulous!
Babsolutely Fabulous is written by former Birmingham Poet Laureate and Guardian journalist Adrian Johnson for Grusha’s Theatre Company of...
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Mar 21, 20241 min read
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The Christian Heritage Centre - an introduction
By Roland Burrows, a trustee of the Christian Heritage Centre. The Christian Heritage Centre was opened in 2011 with the purpose of...
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Mar 10, 20242 min read
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A Christmas message from Graham Worton - the President of the Black Country Society
Graham is Keeper of Geology and the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark coordinator at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery. He writes below of...
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Dec 29, 20236 min read
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The Carnegie Library Legacy in the Black Country by Steve James
An updated version of an article that first appeared in the Blackcountryman, 56.4, Winter 2023 Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American...
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Dec 13, 20235 min read
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Press release - Local author reveals fascinating story behind new landmark building in Wordsley
Stourbridge Glass Museum; how it came into being Sparrow Publishing : ISBN 978-1-7399212-2-4 : 56pp softback, lavishly illustrated in...
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Nov 30, 20232 min read
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Black Country Ramblings
The Society has recently been sent a pdf of "Black Country Ramblings" by Dorothy Cooper, which sets out her childhood reminiscences in...
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Nov 20, 20231 min read
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The gravity defying mystery of the Crooked House
Another blog by Steve Roughton, author of "What really caused the Crooked House to tilt" Entering the front door of The Crooked House,...
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Oct 13, 20233 min read
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What really caused the Crooked House to tilt?
A guest blog by Steve Roughton As a Chartered Civil and Structural Engineer, Steve has over 30 years’ experience defying gravity,...
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Oct 3, 20234 min read
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The Crooked House remembered
The Black Country Society is shocked and saddened by the recent fire and subsequent demolition of the Crooked House. As a Society we have...
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Aug 23, 20232 min read
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The destruction of the Crooked House - a statement from the Black Country Society
The Black Country Society abhors the destruction of the Crooked House public house, along with the obvious inadequacies of current...
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Aug 22, 20232 min read
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Can you help with an undergraduate research project?
Phoebe Goodwin is an undergraduate geography student from the University of Manchester who is studying Black Country place identity for...
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Jul 17, 20231 min read
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On this day - April to June
A collection of the "On this day" Twitter and Facebook posts compiled by Jack Price from April to June 2023 14/04/1912 #OTD in...
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Jun 30, 20232 min read
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Black Country Society walk 31/5/2023 - Bradley Canal Restoration
We assembled outside the gates to the Canal and river trust’s workshop in Bradley lane. By the time we were ready to move off we were up...
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Jun 1, 20231 min read
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