| Season:
Autumn 2000 |
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| Vol:
33 |
| No.
4 |
| Year:
2000 |
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| Editorial: |
The Society's fruitful association with Sutton Publishing Ltd ("Black Country in Old Photographs" series) continues and several more titles will be published before Christmas. In some cases the Society organises a launch, in others we just have a presence when the new book is launched. Either way the Society benefits. Further details will be found in the pullout and we offer members a service by post for these at the cover prices.
I have been fortunate always to be able to assemble for each magazine a collection of Black Country articles on a wide range of topics. In this issue, one article has "made it" a couple of years after receiving it, another immediately on receipt. It is a matter of balance. The latter article is on a subject close to my heart. Contributed by John Sanders, Chairman of the Friends of Broadfield House Glass Museum, it chronicles the steps taken quietly over nearly 2 years, to obtain the necessary Church of England authority to do some "grave robbing". About a month before the work could be done our cover was nearly blown when a correspondent to The Stourbridge News drew attention to the objects of our exercise (see page 49).
The December magazine, Vol. 34 No. 1 will be my 50th since suceeding my distinguished predecessor, the late Harold Parsons, who produced 83 issues over 21 years. The next magazine will be a 'special' of 100 pages to commemorate this particular minor landmark and will include a profile of a nationally known Black Country personality.
Stan Hill |
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things you can read about in this month's issue: |
| Black Country Personality - John Sparry - Stan Hill |
| Belbroughton's Scythe Industry - Alan Pilkington |
| A History and Archaeology of Wren's Nest East Basin - John Hemingway |
| Wilf Kelsey - Bilston's Carnival Knight - Ned Williams |
| Churches Around Pensnett and Bromley - Bernard Stokes |
| Saving the Carder Tomb Plaques - John V Sanders |
| The Rolfe Street Museum Project Completed - Ron Julian |
| More Thoughts on Dudley Grammar School - Ken Bakewell |
| Rowley Roadmen (poem) - Geoffrey Bubb |
| Theatre Fire Victims' Stone Restored - Ronald Griffin |
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