DIGGING deep into the Bugle archives, we’ve found these recollections from Mrs Beryl Jones, who once wrote to us from her home in Oldbury, to share her memories of growing up in the district near to the Hawthorns, hallowed home of the Baggies.
Say the words ‘Grange Hill’ to anyone who grew up in the 1970s or ’80s, and they’ll think of a fictional London school which many of us watched on the BBC – as soon as we’d got home from our own school. But at the time this picture was taken, very...
A century ago, in early May 1926, the General Council of the Trades Union Congress called a General Strike in support of the Miners’ Union’s claims about pay and working conditions. A temporary Government coal subsidy to mine owners...
IN 2001, the UK Government encouraged the purchase of diesel cars aiming to protect the environment due to better CO2 performance, and offered reduced vehicle tax compared to petrol equivalents. In 1995 the market share for diesels...
