The Throstle Club Programme 2 June 2023 The Throstle Club is a programme produced by Black Country Radio Xtra and presented by Norman Bartlam and Bob Downing. It is a monthly programme which looks back on the long and proud history of West Bromwich Albion featuring interviews with former players and reminiscences from supporters of the club. Programme…
Programme 1 produced in May 2023 looks at key events from May in days gone by including the 1968 F A Cup Final at Wembley, Albion’s promotion play-off of May 1993 and Tony Brown’s England cap in 1971.
Doorstep History Programme 62 | November 2022 In March 1918, Sec Lt Kenneth Wastell of the Royal Flying Corps, from Ladywood, Birmingham lost his life in a tragic flying accident when his plane hit a church spire at St Ives in East Anglia. He was only 19 years old and he gave his life for…
HEATWAVE 2006 STYLE As you may have noticed the July 2022 heatwave is underway and here’s a look at Ladywood’s hottest day in July 2006.
Work began in March 1957, 65 years ago this month, to construct Birmingham’s Inner Ring Road. Latest
Birmingham celebrates The Queen’s Green Canopy campaign March 2022 School children from Yenton Primary School, Erdington, helped by Commonwealth Games marathon hopeful Hayley Carruthers planted trees in Pype Hayes Park. This was part of the The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative which aims to green-up areas of the Commonwealth during the monarch’s Platinum Jubilee year. Latest
The West Bromwich Albion Former Players Association has launched a book which looks at their achievements since 2003. Geoff Snape, the secretary, talks about the book ‘Old Baggies: The Story’ and we also hear from former players Ray Wilson and Brendon Batson with a guest appearance by Willie Johnston.
Albion Foundation Blind Football TeamMore on the Albion Foundation Blind Football Team and their links with the England side.https://youtu.be/rhjMynXPRyM
It’s Not Only Zebedee Who Boings Programme 12 The West Bromwich Albion Foundation’s Blind Football Team has reached such a high standard that many of the participants have played in the national side. This week, Jonathan Pugh, the England Blind Football Team Coach, attended a training session and we went along to meet him. September…
https://youtu.be/K1PDtMA34DI Doorstep History Programme 53 A memorial stone depicting the former chapel was revealed as part of the new Garden of Memory at Warstone Lane Cemetery, on 31 August 2021. The scheme – funded in partnership between the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Birmingham City Council and Jewellery Quarter Development Trust – also saw restoration works carried out at…
A group of dedicated Albion fans have been tidying up the Hawthorns Memorial Garden and took time out to remember former goalkeeper Alan Miller. Latest
During the February 2021 half term holiday staff and helpers at St George’s Primary School joined forces with Midland Langar Seva Society to hold a food bank which served over 200 hot meals a day to residents of Ladywood and Edgbaston. In addition around 1,100 bags of food were distributed to the homes of people…
In this programme we feature Alistair Robertson who looks back at his West Bromwich Albion first team debut in October 1969. Latest
In this programme we visit Hill Top, West Bromwich, where the remains of an aircraft gun emplacement can be seen, eighty years after it was last used to defend Birmingham and the Black Country from enemy aircraft in World War II. Latest
It has been announced that former England footballer, Bobby Charlton, has been diagnosed with Dementia. We look back to October 2016 to his visit to Dudley where he unveiled a plaque to honour his former friend Duncan Edwards, on what would have been Duncan’s 80th birthday. Latest
A Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque was unveiled at a church in Hay Mills adjacent to the Horsfall & Webster factory. It honours the memory of James Horsfall and his company which manufactured the wire for the first successful Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable which, in 1866, connected the continents of Europe and America by electronic communication for the first time.…
To celebrate Birmingham History Week 2020 we are looking back at some of the local history stories that we have featured on TNT News over the years. Today we are at the Icknield Port Loop as it looked in January 2004. Latest
As West Bromwich Albion gain promotion to the Premier League chairman of the WBA Supporters’ Club, John Homer and WBA photographer Laurie Rampling look back on the season and pay tribute to West Brom legend Chris Brunt. Latest
This special programme commemorates the 20th anniversary of West Bromwich Albion’s last win at Wembley. We meet Elliott Morris, the man who scored the winning goal in April 2000 when The Baggies won the Football League Youth Alliance Cup in a penalty shoot out against Scunthorpe United. Elliott was the goalkeeper! Other stories you may…
This edition has a few lighter stories to cheer up West Bromwich Albion fans during the Coronavirus lockdown. It features stories from lifelong supporters David Jones & Glynis Wright, and club photographer Laurie Rampling. Two former players Graham Williams and Mickey Fudge also add their stories.