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Sedgmore's Grand Colliery Exhibition
The Bull Ring, Sedgley, that is the location where on a fateful night in April 1906, The Sedgmore’s Grand Colliery Exhibition Travelling Show, set up in Sedgley on its way to the Wolverhampton Annual Suntide Fair, burnt to the ground. The Show had been built up over many years by my Great Great Grandfather William James Sedgmore who, being born in 1841 in Cornwall, moved to South Wales and there married Thurza Venn in July 1867. I have been quietly researching over the years but as Sedgley was the final port of call for the Exhibition, I thought it fair to post this memory in the hope that someone may be aware of the Show and would like ...read more here
Contributed by John Sedgmore Blundell
West Midlands memories
Sedgmore's Grand Colliery Exhibition
The Bull Ring, Sedgley, that is the location where on a fateful night in April 1906, The Sedgmore’s Grand Colliery Exhibition Travelling Show, set up in Sedgley on its way to the Wolverhampton Annual Suntide Fair, burnt to the ground. The Show had been built up over many years by my Great Great Grandfather William James Sedgmore who, being born in 1841 in Cornwall, moved to South Wales and there married Thurza Venn in July 1867. I have been quietly researching over the years but as Sedgley was the final port of call for the Exhibition, I thought it fair to post this memory in the hope that someone may be aware of the Show and would like ...read more here
A memory of Sedgley contributed by John Sedgmore Blundell
Fatso & friend
It was 1970 before I found myself working in theis enclosure with 'Fatso' the male lion and his mate, whose name I, unfortunately cannot remember. I began working at Dudley zoo in 1970 as the Giraffe Keeper and was moved to the 'Cat Round' some three months later. I was responsible for the care of the lion and tiger enclosures, which were large pits as illustrated, a by-product of the open cast mining that had taken place there. The bears were housed in similar, if somewhat larger, ravines.
I left Dudley Zoo in 1971, but continued to work as a zoo keeper until my early retirement in 2003 in Australia.
But, Dudley was my first and ...read more here
A memory of Dudley contributed by Nicholas Ordinans
The Fox and Goose Public House
Hello from Australia. I was hoping that someone looking through these "memories" might remember The Fox and Goose Public House on Penn Road. I think that this is the picture of it. My mom was the cleaner there for a few years when my sisters and I were young and I can remember sitting on the steps outside the pub collecting car numbers in an old exercise book and drinking a bottle of Vimto and eating Smiths crisps while I waited for mom to finish cleaning, and then we'd walk all the way back home to Warstones estate where we lived, it was such a long way but we never minded then as we didn't have a car and money was ...read more here
A memory of Penn contributed by Kathy Adams nee Cook
Extracts From Sedgley & West Midlands books
Almost no building work was carried out at Dudley Castle for the 200 years between 1340 and 1540,
but in 1540 John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, set about rebuilding the residential block on a
grand scale. The results are seen here. From the extreme left are a pantry, kitchen, serving place, buttery,
hall, and great chamber, most of which had bedrooms above. In zoo days the single-storey building on
the right was the aquarium.
An extract from from"Dudley Living Memories".
Historically, castle
baileys were home
to many people, and
something of that feel
is captured in this view
of relaxing zoo visitors
enjoying sun and ice
creams in the mid
1950s. The windowed
building in the centre
was lodgings added to
the castle around 1690,
some of the last new
construction on the
site. Next to that is the
rear of the gatehouse,
which is contemporary
to the keep.
An extract from from"Dudley Living Memories".
A close up view of John
Dudley’s handiwork, showing
the hall, centre left, and great
chamber, centre right. The
castle’s downfall was in two
stages. After the end of the
Civil War, it was slighted (or
de-fortified). This destroyed
the castle walls, turrets
and gatehouse, but left the
residential side unharmed. The
second stage was a major fire
on 24 July 1750, which blazed
for two days and finished the
castle as a residence. Here
visitors to the zoo loll about,
largely unaware of the history
that surrounds them.
An extract from from"Dudley Living Memories".
The one thing that has
not changed about
Dudley Castle is the
spectacular views afforded
from Castle Hill. On the
apocryphal ‘clear day’ it is
possible to see the
Malvern Hills, Bromsgrove,
the Lickey Hills, Frankley
Beeches, Clent, Abberley
and the Clee Hills. Here the
view is out over some of
the castle’s outer buildings
along Castle Street and
into the Market Place.
St Edmund’s Church
is prominent in the
foreground, whilst on the
horizon is the outline of
St Andrew’s Church,
Netherton, which is almost
as prominent a local
landmark as the castle keep
itself.
An extract from from"Dudley Living Memories".
Also at the foot of Castle
Hill, on the same side
as Dudley Hippodrome,
was the railway station,
seen here from Castle
Hill Road Bridge. Closest
to the camera is Dudley
South signal box, which
projected out from the
end of the platform. By
this time its lower half had
been strengthened with a
formidable brick skirt.
A pannier tank rests in
No 3 bay platform on the
ex-GWR side, whilst the
ex-LMS platform to the right
is alive with passengers.
An extract from from"Dudley Living Memories".