Great Wyrley LHS have a Local History Open Day at the Great Wyrley WMC (now GW Sports & Social Club) on Walsall Road next Saturday June 19th from 11am – 4pm. We will be there together with other Local History Societies from Bridgtown, Burntwood, Pelsall and the Cannock Chase Mining Museum. We will have a scanner available so that any photographs will be copied on the spot. Also Ian Wykes talk on the Anglo Saxon Hoard is only a week away on Thursday 24th June and there are still a few tickets available at £2.50. Email or telephone me on 01922 414772.
We have had a few more family trees added to our Database this week. They are the Bradbury, Showell, Thomas, Dace and Goodfellow family trees but they also include the Whitehouses, Locketts, Russells, Bakers and Ridgeways.
We have had another donation from the Bale family and it is quite a remarkable Diary/Scrapbook entitled ‘Great Wyrley Secondary Modern School – 4th Year Journey to North Wales 1948′. Beautifully assembled it contains photographs, postcards, maps, timetables, drawings and written accounts by the boys themselves as well as Mr Bale. Entries are included from Graham Bennett, E Pearse, Colin Booker, Derek Smith and Ernest Thacker and we are appealing for anyone who remembers this trip, or if they know where these ‘lads’ are today. The book is added to the ‘Cuthbert Bale Collection’ and can only be viewed at our Base. More memories have been sent in from an old ‘Bomker’ who has been exiled for 45 years but he remembers ‘Coggers’ and the ‘Pretty Woman’s’ Fish and Chip shop and much more nostalgia.
Our base is open this Tuesday as usual from 10am – 4pm.
trevor.cheslynhayhistory@talktalk.net

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