Meetings – 4th February and Beyond
Meeting – 4th February 2020
Our next meeting at St Saviour’s Church Hall is on Tuesday 4th February at 8pm when we once again welcome Terry Daniels presenting ‘Made in Oldbury: Industrial History Based on Ten Objects – Part Two’.
We enjoyed Part One last year, and it is interesting to speculate on which objects he will select this time with such a wide variety of trades and manufacturers to choose from.
Terry has spent all his working life in the plastics industry in Oldbury. He is chair of Langley Local History Society and Oldbury Local History Group. Writing and lecturing on the history of the area, he has also produced a number of books.
Visitors are most welcome at all our events.
See hhfs.org.uk for details and contacts.
Future Meetings
March 3rd An Introduction to Archives – Rachel Brown, Archivist, Dudley Archives
April 7th The Last Days of Steelmaking at Round Oak – Keith Hodgkins
May 5th Social Evening (Ticket Only)
June 2nd Shelsley Walsh: The Story of a Village – Max Hunt
July 7th Henry VIII and the Field of Cloth of Gold – Dr Gillian White
September 1st William Shenstone – Julian Hunt
October 6th AGM followed by:
Clent Village: A Brief Look Back (Part 1) Paul Timmins,Chairman, Clent History Society
November 3rd The Major Repairs to the External Fabric of Tyntesfield – Derek Clarke RIBA
December 1st King Richard III: Hero? Murderer? Loyal Brother? – Max Keen
Middlefield Lane, Hagley – A Short History
The idea for this new publication was originally developed by the late Dr Peter Bloore, who lived in Middlefield Lane. He was a member of Hagley Historical and Field Society and also Hagley Parish Archivist. His widow offered the file to the Archive Group and they decided that they would continue his research and aim at publishing a summary of his work plus contributions from people, who lived or had lived in the Lane or had first hand knowledge of the residents. The results are now available as an illustrated book of fifty-two pages.
 Middlefield Lane front |
 Middlefield Lane back |
The book is priced at £4 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical and Field Society.
Hagley Miscellanea written by John-Homery Folkes
The book “Hagley Miscellanea” by John-Homery Folkes, the architect of St.Saviour’s Hall, was first published in 1974. It was for private circulation and only 25 copies were printed. Forty years later it is considered sufficiently interesting to merit this reprint. The author (born 1906) has gathered a wide range of reminiscences that together give a picture of Hagley’s inhabitants, houses, industries, celebrations and entertainments in the century and more before the explosion of house-building in the 1960s.
The book includes: the early days of the railway station; the building of St. Saviour’s church and planning the cemetery; houses large and small; an attempt at encroachment in Church Street; the Rifle Corps and the Range; the nursemaid question!; Hagley celebrities; the Sunday postal delivery and church attendance and an eyewitness account of the fire at Hagley Hall on Christmas Eve 1925. The “Illustrations” section includes the programme for the Coronation Celebration of June 1911.
The book is priced at £5 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical and Field Society.
Hagley: A Village at War 1914 – 1918
The Society has now launched a new book entitled ‘Hagley: A Village at War 1914 – 1918’, researched and written by local author and member, Pat Dunn. It is based on the ‘Hagley Parish Magazines’ of the period and describes how the people of Hagley dealt with the problems presented by the Great War on the Home Front. The people and places featured on the front cover of June’s issue of the Hagley Village News feature in the book along with many others.
The book is priced at £4 and can be ordered online from Hagley Historical & Field Society. Click on the book cover below to view the first few pages.
