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My parents wedding

Although I wasn't to be born for another 6 years, I remember my mother teling me about her wedding day here. My brother's name is Peter, I wonder if the connection is from this church?
A memory of Wolverhampton contributed by Sarah Hartley

Our part in Hitler's downfall

Tettenhall was a logistical centre for the Normandy Landings. Americans were stationed in Danescourt House - long since demolished.
However several of the troops have returned over the years, some of whom were "mothered" by Auntie Grace - Mrs Grace Green, who at the time was the stewardess of South Staffs Golf Club, situated next to Danescourt.
The Golf Club became a central reception centre for refugees from the London bombings and a phone call by Grace to the commanding officer, brought a fleet of jeeps and trucks in, to distribute the children to their host families.
A memory of Tettenhall contributed by John Green

Childhood Days

                                    Wrottesley Park

92 Wrottesley Park, it was a nice address, a suggestion of elegance perhaps, a hint of grandeur even. However there was nothing grand about the place we lived in even though it was part of the Wrottesley Estate. Home for me as a child in the fifties was part of a Nissen hut in a converted army camp but despite its lowly status I consider myself most fortunate to have spent most of my childhood there.

We were the Baby Boomer generation although we didn’t know that at the time. They were lean times, rationing was still in place and household items along ...read more here
A memory of Wrottesley Park contributed by Kathy Daulman

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