Features-Bloxwich
Feature: The incredible shrinking Bloxwich anvil stones!
23 Oct 09 15:12
The incredible shrinking anvil stones!
Stuart Willimas Bloxidge Tallygraph 21 Aug 07
In Bloxwich Park, the first thing one notices when entering from High Street is an intriguing relic of what was once the keynote trade of Bloxwich - the making of awl blades, needles, nails, spurs and other light metalwork...
YamYam Bloxwich news
Feature: The Old Wesleyan Chapel at Bloxwich
11 Oct 09 05:00
The Old Wesleyan Chapel at Bloxwich
Stuart Williams Bloxidge Tallygraph 11 Oct 09
Wesleyan Methodism, founded in 1739 by clergyman and preacher John Wesley, gained an early foothold in Bloxwich and flourished there from the late eighteenth century. In 1795, the Bloxwich Wesleyans decided to make a nearby flax oven their official chapel....
Wesley Centre John Wesley faces mobs in Wednesbury and Walsall
Wikipedia John Wesley
Feature: The Ancient Inns of Bloxwich by @TheTallygraph
06 Oct 09 15:39
The Ancient Inns of Bloxwich
Stuart Williams Bloxidge Tallygraph 6 Oct 09
Bloxwich once boasted more pubs of historic and architectural interest than anywhere else in the Borough, except perhaps on Walsall’s Church Hill...
Feature: Rev John Baylie & the Bloxwich National School by @TheTallygraph
03 Oct 09 13:19
Rev John Baylie & the Bloxwich National School
Stuart Williams Bloxidge Tallygraph 3 Oct 09
One of the oldest and most important features of Bloxwich life is the popular Victorian ‘National’ School on the High Street, now Bloxwich CE Primary School, which celebrated its 175th Anniversary in May 2003. The driving force behind the founding of the ‘National’ was Rev John Baylie, who did much to promote education in Bloxwich, and the legacy of ‘his’ school has stood the test of time over many generations...
Bloxwich CE Primary School Home
Feature: The Eagle has landed
20 Jul 09 15:38
The Eagle has landed
Bloxidge Tallygraph 20 July 09
Forty years ago today, humanity made its first giant leap to the Moon. I was aged 9 at the time, and it was an adventure I will never forget, albeit my family and I were a quarter million miles away, viewing the action on a fuzzy black and white television in a council house in Blakenall...
Telegraph 20 Jul Astronauts were neglected by Nasa
Space 20 Jul Apollo 11 marked with spacewalk
Telegraph 20 Jul Astronauts queue for the loo
Guardian 20 Jul Astronauts call for mission to Mars
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Feature
Neil Armstrong on the moon landing
Telegraph 17 July 09
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins talk about the Apollo 11 moon landing on Newseum's 30th anniversary programme in 1999...
Feature: The History of Bloxwich Carnival
19 Jul 09 03:26
The History of Bloxwich Carnival
Bloxidge Tallygraph 19 July 09
Bloxwich Carnivals began with the aim of supporting the community, and have continued to do so throughout their history. Today, the Carnival is the most important community event of the year in the town...
Saturday 1 August 2009
King George V Playing Fields, Bloxwich
12 noon Carnival opens
12.30pm Crowning of Carnival Queen plus awards
4.30pm Close
Adults £1.50, children up to age 16, 50p, under 5's free
Feature: Pat Collins, the Bloxwich showman's lion tamer - Captain Herbert Clarke, extraordinary life and adventures
05 Jul 09 14:13
Story of Captain Herbert Clarke
Pat Collins' lion tamer
The Bloxidge Tallygraph 5 July 09
For the first time ever on the internet, the story has been told of one of the great animal trainers from the grand old days of the circus. The life of Herbert Vincent Clarke is one of adventure and daring, from waggon-boy to top lion-tamer, travelling the world, he worked with the Bloxwich Showman Pat Collins before finally retiring in Brownhills. Stuart Williams, Edditer of the Bloxidge Tallygraph, presents a wonderfully researched, well written and amply illustrated account of an extraordinary man...