Bringing you the best of another year
WE may only just be fetching our big coats out again, but with the clocks going back this week, the nights are drawing in and yes, Christmas is just nine weeks away.
And it’s not a Black Country Christmas without the Bugle Annual, so to get you in the mood, here is a sneak preview of next year’s edition.
Nostalgic
As always, we’ve packed its glossy pages with some of our favourite Bugle stories from the previous twelve months, and the hardest part has been deciding what to leave out.
We think we’ve come up with a decent mix of nostalgic nuggets, covering the whole of our area and several generations.
Our front cover this year, courtesy of our friends at Dudley Archives, shows a wonderful scene from 1957, with two mothers and their children walking through Dudley Market Place, off to see the Queen on her visit to the town.
Inside, you can see factory workers in the ’40s, street carnivals in the ’50s, and revisit the pubs and clubs at the heart of the Midlands’ Beat Boom of the ’60s.
We’ll take you inside the yard which cut up countless steam locomotives for scrap, to some of our grandest old theatres, down the mines and through our old streets, as well as taking a look at life as it used to be, with our columnist Gail Middleton.
Everything you love about the Bugle is here, just as you’ve come to expect. ■ There’s all this and loads more, and it’s still only £4.99. The Bugle Annual 2020 will be on sale next week from local retailers.