It’s Not Only Zebedee Who Boings | Programme 16 | May 2022A bridge in Netherton which was daubed with the words ‘Astle Is The King’ after he scored the winning goal for West Bromwich Albion in the 1968 F A Cup Final has been given a makeover. The graffiti has often been removed only for…
Birmingham’s famous statue of three industrialists Matthew Boulton, James Watt and William Murdoch has been returned to Centenary Square.
A new independent bookshop, Blue Sheep Books, has opened in the Black Country. It is bucking the trend and fighting back against online sales. Curently, its best-selling publications are books about the local area including those about West Bromwich Albion.
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 Sports Argus was a much-respected Saturday night sports paper in the West Midlands.
The Brew ‘Us Bugle & Birmingham Heritage Herald issue 52 December 2021 Ladywood History Group’s magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary with a Christmas themed issue. Stories include: memories of 1930s Christmases in Ladywood; The Lord Mayor’s Christmas card of 100 years ago; the 70th anniversary of the death of Dame Elizabeth Cadbury; Cyril Runnels-Moss, son of the…
Doorstep History | Programme 54 – December 2021 ‘Beer at Home means Davenports’ was once a popular saying, however, the name disappeared in the late 1980s but has recently been revived and the company is relaunching its delivery service- with bottled beer once again being delivered straight from brewery to your home. Davenports always was…
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…
In the late Victorian era George Dixon was a pioneering educationalist in Birmingham. A school in the city still bears his name. In July 2021, a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque was unveiled on the site of one his former schools, which is now the Ikon Gallery on Brindleyplace. Latest
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
This programme remembers the day the Queen opened the International Convention on 12 June 1991. 30 years on we are looking to interview former pupils of Ladywood School who took part in filming of the redevelopment of the area, some of whom are featured in this programme, which shows what the area was like in…
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.…