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A local mining accident – more information available
A couple of days ago I asked for information about a local mining accident, suffered by the Grandfather of reader Gill Joesbury, but the request it was a bit of a mission impossible, as we didn't have...
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New road safety initiative for Brownhills
You all know that I love local wildlife - and that I'm particularly fond of the local deer population, who have sadly been involved in many accidents with vehicles in recent years on roads around our...
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November 1993 – Getting back on the tracks?
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 50 of the long lost freesheet, from November 1993 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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Brock and roll
This isn't very pleasant, so I'll be short and to the point - people, we have a burgeoning badger population at the moment as these guys come in from the fringes of local countryside into town, just as...
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December 1993 – Brownhills School – run successfully on the premise of care
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 51 of the long lost freesheet, from December 1993 for you to peruse and download. I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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Five treated after three vehicle collision in Brownhills High Street
News is just coming in of a three-vehicle crash in Brownhills High Street this evening, just near Silver Court/Farmfoods area, near the junction of Silver Street. Continue reading →
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January 1994 – Are we being pushed out again?
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 52 of the long lost freesheet, from January 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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It must be election time
A news story drifted into my feed in the last couple of days, which was also flagged up to me by top local history bloke Clive Roberts and the young David Evans: it seems that Brownhills High Street...
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February 1994 – Local trader purchases derelict buildings
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 53 of the long lost freesheet, from Febuary 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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March 1994 – Plans to replace eyesore buildings
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 54 of the long lost freesheet, from March 1994 for you to peruse and download. I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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April 1994 – Industrialists at war with neighbour
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 55 of the long lost freesheet, from April 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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May 1994 – Sad loss of Terry Clarke
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 56 of the long lost freesheet, from May 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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June 1994 – Nearly Thirty Years on the Beat
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 57 of the long lost freesheet, from June 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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July 1994 –Amazing feat in L.A. – but dragging feet in Clayhanger
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 58 of the long lost freesheet, from July 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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August 1994 –Fierce attack at BNNR public enquiry
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 59 of the long lost freesheet, from July 1994 for you to peruse and download. I've had an incredible response to featuring these long,...
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September 1994 –Brownhills loses another service
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 60 of the long lost freesheet, from September 1994 for you to peruse and download. I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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October 1994 –Vandalism Strikes Again!
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 61 of the long lost freesheet, from October 1994 for you to peruse and download. I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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December 1994 –Is the government really fit to govern?
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 63 of the long lost freesheet, from December 1994 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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January 1995 –Environmental nightmare continues with latest mining bid
Continuing the scans of the Brownhills Gazette - I present issue 64 of the long lost freesheet, from January 1995 for you to peruse and download - I've had an incredible response to featuring these...
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Accident in Sadler Road this evening?
I know very little about this one but friend of the blog @AntrigbyAjrigby tweeted me tonight (9:15pm Friday 17th July 2015) to say there had been an accident in Sadler Road, Brownhills, and the the...
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Road accident on M6 Toll island this evening
I've had a load of enquiries about an accident tonight up by the M6 toll slip road island just off the A5195 and Ogley Hay Road north of the A5 between Chasetown and Hammerwich - as luck would have...
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Police appeal for witnesses to Shelfield collision
Yesterday (Wednesday 5th August 2015) there was a nasty traffic accident at the Spring Cottage junction on the A461 Lichfield Road at Shelfield, in which an elderly lady was seriously hurt. Continue...
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Man trapped in car on M6 Toll following incident on Saturday evening
I've had a few enquiries overnight as to what happened on the M6 Toll last night (Saturday, 12th September 2015), just near the Pool Lane Bridge at Chasewater; access to the motorway was closed for a...
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Road accident on Lichfield Road, Shire Oak – can you help?
Yesterday afternoon (Saturday, 24th October 2015), there was a serious accident on the A461 Lichfield Road, Sandhills, north east of Shire Oak - I believe the incident to have been around the...
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A town united in mourning
The Grove Pit Disaster that took the lives of fourteen men on October 1st, 1930 left deep scars on the Brownhills and Norton communities - and the funeral and memorial service for the men taken was a...
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Was the investigation into the Grove Pit Disaster a whitewash?
The 1st October 2016 was the 86th anniversary of the worst modern-day pit disaster in our area, the Grove Pit Disaster, in which fourteen miners perished following an explosion a mile and a half below...
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Car smashes through garage in early morning Brownhills crash
In the early morning today (Saturday, 22nd October 2016) residents in Kingfisher Close, on the Watermead Estate, Brownhills were awoken by a car leaving the road and smashing through the wall of their...
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Accident on Miner Island, yesterday evening?
I note yesterday evening at rush hour (around 5:30pm, 3rd November 2016) there seems to have been some kind of accident at the Pelsall Road side of the Miner Island in Brownhills. Continue reading →
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Pedestrian injured in collision in Brownhills: can you help find the car please?
Hi folks - there's been a collision in Brownhills this evening in which a pedestrian has been injured requiring emergency services attention, and it seems the driver of the vehicle involved failed to...
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Two injured in second Ogley Road crash in ten days
I'm sad to report that yesterday evening (Wednesday 21st December 2016) there was a serious road traffic incident on the Ogley Road near it's junction with the Lichfield Road at Co-op Corner in...
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Serious road traffic incident ongoing in Walsall Wood
Images and details kindly supplied by Stephen Hill [Updated 2:00pm Traffic now clearing – Cheers, Bob] There’s been a nasty accident in Walsall Wood this lunchtime (Wednesday 4th January 2017), and...
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Road accidents on Pelsall Road and near the M6 Toll this evening
I'm receiving bits of information about a couple of road accidents this evening (Saturday, 11th February 2017) - a clearly quite serious one on the Pelsall Road between Brownhills and the Fingerpost,...
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Ongoing incident: Accident at Ogley Road/High Street junction in Brownhills
Monday, 13th February 2017, 1:53pm - Traffic is currently backing up in the Brownhills area due to a collision between a lorry and a car at the junction by the former Warreners Arms pub, where Ogley...
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Urgent: Police appeal for witnesses to Rushall collision
Walsall police this afternoon issued the following appeal for witnesses to come forward who may have seen the Mercedes Convertible, pictured below, on Wednesday last (19th April 2017) after in was...
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Child injured in traffic accident near Castlefort School, Walsall Wood
I'm aware of ongoing reports of a car accident involving a child in Blakemore Road, Walsall Wood near Castlefort School this morning (Friday 15th September 2017). Continue reading →
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Serous traffic incident on Lichfield Road, Shire Oak – avoid the area
This morning, Friday 6th October 2017, there has been a road traffic incident on the A461 between the Shire Oak Crossroads and Streets Corner junction - The A461 Lichfield Road at Shire Oak Hill has...
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Car crashes into former shop on Lindon Road, Brownhills
There was a very nasty car accident on the Walsall Wood/Brownhills border last night (Wednesday 14th March 2018) when a car crashed into the former butcher's shop on the corner of Pauls Coppice and...
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Police appeal following fatal collision in Walsall Wood
As many of you will know, there has been a fatal road traffic collision in Walsall Wood High Street in the early hours of this morning (Saturday 25th November 2018) as a result of which a 28 year old...
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Police name victim of Walsall Wood collision and charge Walsall man
Carl Moore. Image from West Midlands Police. Continue reading
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Young boy taken to hospital following suspected hit and run incident in...
The air ambulance was called this afternoon to an incident in Brownhills High Street when a two ear old was hit by a van in what is suspected to be a hit and run incident. Continue reading
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