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Chairman’s Note: This is the first post in a series entitled “WV101”, a look at the building blocks of Wolverhampton history. It is intended as an ongoing series of blog… Read More »Guy Motors’ Global Reach: From Wolverhampton to the World

In recent times there has been much talk of erecting monuments to historic British figures from a minority background. In Wolverhampton, a plaque to a very worthy recipient fitting this… Read More »Douglas Morris Harris: A Hidden Hero

For the organisation’s second talk of the year, our Vice-Chair, Quintin Watt, will look at fatal transport accidents between 1820 and 1920. In this short excerpt, Quintin looks at some… Read More »The Dangers of Road Travel in Wolverhampton

The Wolverhampton Synagogue is a dimuniative building, but hid a secret to its past for many years. Finally in 2020, the secret was revealed, and from the most unlikely of… Read More »Wolverhampton Synagogue and its Hidden History

Carribee Island was home to Wolverhampton’s “Irish Quarter”, and the population was often the butt of the joke, or outright hostility. Echoes of this, such as “Paddy and Murphy” jokes… Read More »Do You Know of the Lord’s Prayer?

An article by Quintin Watt, Approx. reading time of 6 minutes. The story of the High Green Lamp, or Gas Pillar, lasted a little over twenty years.  The Wolverhampton Gas… Read More »Out of Darkness Cometh The Lamp

Tickets are now on sale for our inaugural fundraiser event, celebrating Sunbeam’s first land speed world record on 17th May 1922. Come and join us in Wolverhampton, birth place of… Read More »Our Story Begins…