Gorsty Hill anniversary photos plea
I am pleased that the Bugle is still blowin’ loud and clear, thanks to Gavin, John and Dan.
I wonder if readers from the Old Hill/blackheath/ Halesowen area may have photographs they could share of anniversaries held at the Gorsty Hill Chapel back in the late 1930s?
My mother Mary (wife of the late Harry Taylor, co-founder and the first editor of the Bugle back in 1972) fondly recalls singing solos as a girl of about six years, on the stage inside the chapel, to a packed audience. But she has never seen any pictures taken at the time. If readers have any photographs of children at Gorsty Hill Chapel around that time, she would love to see them.
My mother was then Mary Sidaway, from nearby Granville Road. In the meantime, here is a picture of my mother about twenty years later, in the late 1950s, at Grange Road Mission, which was at the bottom of Waterfall Lane. It was taken at the time of a Sunday School treat/parade.
My father Harry grew up in Grange Road, just below ‘The Tump’, hence his pen-name, Aristotle Tump.
I am the young lad in the front of the picture, and my cousin Lesley (Roughton) is in my mother’s arms. All the best to the Bugle. Rob Taylor (Black Country Bugle, 1980-2013)
email: rob.taylor_53@talktalk. net