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The Effluent society
Further to my post last week, regarding the plans by The Ashtenne Industrial Fund Unit Trust to demolish Brownhills Business Park and construct housing, granted on appeal by the Planning Inspectorate,...
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Working in a coal mine…
Since covering the anniversary of The Grove Pit Disaster – the worst such event in our area’s mining history – I’ve only peripherally touched on the subject of the local mines. After some prompting by...
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The truth will out
I see that Peter ‘Pedro’ Cutler continues his diligent and painstaking examination of the Harrison Company, family and concerns. The Harrisons, readers will recall, were wealthy mine owners hereabouts,...
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Face to face
Following on from my post last week where I featured local historian Gerald Reece’s research and loving reproductions of the mapping for the the proposed Norton Branch of the South Staffordshire...
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Peake performance
I had a posting schedule for this weekend, but like so many things I plan, it seems to have flown out the window - when the fascinating thread about Captain T.V. Peake was developing, mostly when I was...
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Vapour trials
The really fascinating thing about curating this blog is the way it inspires people to look into not just history, but the retelling of it; I have been banging on for years that we need to be careful...
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An electoral deformity
It's interesting to note that Peter 'Pedro' Cutler is coming over all iconoclastic again - and I, for one, welcome it, as Peter has a fine record of kicking over the statues of the local mining history...
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Safe as houses?
I'm pleased to say that, somewhat like rust, Peter 'Pedro' Cutler never sleeps, and his tireless and somewhat relentless pursuit of the evidential history behind some of the commonly accepted...
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Lamping it
For those who missed it, I had an interesting question commented to an old post in the week, and I thought I'd make a post out of it as it deserves a wider audience - this certainly sounds like a...
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