Sunday, 3 October 2010
Are You a Bell Ringer?
The St John's Church Restoration Group are looking to set up a handbell ringing group. Anyone interested please email Deb Brownlee at debbrownlee@hotmail.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention) only Black Country Night
RoosterSpake Presents The Legendary Dave Swarbrick (Fairport Convention)
Venue: "The Omma un Chain Music Club", The Crosswells Inn Langley
Date: Saturday October 30th Tickets £6.00
Contact: Lozz 01384 231013 lozz@blackcountrypodcasting.com
Only Black Country Appearance Don’t Miss!!
Full support Local Artists Support all local ‘live’ ‘original’ music.
Venue: "The Omma un Chain Music Club", The Crosswells Inn Langley
Date: Saturday October 30th Tickets £6.00
Contact: Lozz 01384 231013 lozz@blackcountrypodcasting.com
Only Black Country Appearance Don’t Miss!!
Full support Local Artists Support all local ‘live’ ‘original’ music.
Thursday, 19 August 2010
Women Chain Makers Strike
Wednesday 19 October 1910 marked the end of a nine week strike that involved around 1000 women chain makers living in the area immediately around Cradley Heath who refused to work until they all received the newly-agreed minimum rate of 2½d an hour. Small chain making was the first industry to obtain minimum wage legislation, and local people, rightly, look back on the part they played in this campaign with pride.
Thanks to the arrival of Pathé news in June 1910, the scandal of the women’s sweated labour attracted world-wide interest and sympathy from influential people who gave their support to the cause.
The meeting where the dispute ended was held in the schoolroom of Grainger’s Lane Primitive Methodist Church, the same place where it had begun on 22 August, when the formidable Mary Macarthur of the National Federation of Women Workers inspired the women to stand up for their rights. It was from these same premises that the women received their strike pay, and there that they held a mammoth tea-party with bread supplied by well-wishers. Sadly that building was demolished in 2007, after its congregation had re-located to Overend Methodist Mission. The leadership of the church in 1910 included people from all sections in the dispute, and some of their descendants are members at Overend today.
It seemed highly appropriate to commemorate the centenary of this event locally and so a celebration service is being held at Overend Church, Banner’s Lane, Cradley on Sunday 17 October at 6.00 pm. All are welcome to attend. Further details from Margaret Bradley 01384 567274.
Thanks to the arrival of Pathé news in June 1910, the scandal of the women’s sweated labour attracted world-wide interest and sympathy from influential people who gave their support to the cause.
The meeting where the dispute ended was held in the schoolroom of Grainger’s Lane Primitive Methodist Church, the same place where it had begun on 22 August, when the formidable Mary Macarthur of the National Federation of Women Workers inspired the women to stand up for their rights. It was from these same premises that the women received their strike pay, and there that they held a mammoth tea-party with bread supplied by well-wishers. Sadly that building was demolished in 2007, after its congregation had re-located to Overend Methodist Mission. The leadership of the church in 1910 included people from all sections in the dispute, and some of their descendants are members at Overend today.
It seemed highly appropriate to commemorate the centenary of this event locally and so a celebration service is being held at Overend Church, Banner’s Lane, Cradley on Sunday 17 October at 6.00 pm. All are welcome to attend. Further details from Margaret Bradley 01384 567274.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Sandwell - Forging Links project
I am an artist working on Forging Links, a project based in Sandwell that aims to engage the young people of Sandwell with the area’s industrious past and present. I wonder if you would be interested in helping the project by publishing this request for information on your website? Or passing it on to anyone you think might be interested?
What are your memories of Sandwell’s famous factories?
Do you have a story to tell about them?
Did you work for Patent Shaft, GKN or Accles and Pollock, just to name a few?
We would like you to send us your personal stories about Sandwell’s industries, so they can be brought to life through Forging Links.
Forging Links is a project that hopes to engage the young people of Sandwell with the area’s industrious past and present. Over the next 12 months we will be working with local people and Sandwell Council’s Museum Service and Community History and Archive Service to uncover the secrets of Sandwell’s industrial past. All the stories and memories collected will be used to create a website and exhibition which aims to present the heritage to a new generation.
If you would like to share your stories please send them to Forging Links, Multistory, 1st Floor, Landchard House, Victoria Street, West Bromwich, B70 8HY, or e-mail forginglinks@hotmail.com.
Kind Regards
Katie Shipley
http://www.katieshipley.com/
http://www.listeningtoyoureyes.blogspot.com/
What are your memories of Sandwell’s famous factories?
Do you have a story to tell about them?
Did you work for Patent Shaft, GKN or Accles and Pollock, just to name a few?
We would like you to send us your personal stories about Sandwell’s industries, so they can be brought to life through Forging Links.
Forging Links is a project that hopes to engage the young people of Sandwell with the area’s industrious past and present. Over the next 12 months we will be working with local people and Sandwell Council’s Museum Service and Community History and Archive Service to uncover the secrets of Sandwell’s industrial past. All the stories and memories collected will be used to create a website and exhibition which aims to present the heritage to a new generation.
If you would like to share your stories please send them to Forging Links, Multistory, 1st Floor, Landchard House, Victoria Street, West Bromwich, B70 8HY, or e-mail forginglinks@hotmail.com.
Kind Regards
Katie Shipley
http://www.katieshipley.com/
http://www.listeningtoyoureyes.blogspot.com/
Share the places you love at www.heartoflandscape.com
Everyone has their own special places – it might be a park or an area of countryside; an historic building or a modern development; it could be a place where you like to relax and unwind or socialise with friends. The interactive map on the Heart of Landscape website allows you to locate, share and celebrate your favourite places and landscapes in the Black Country.
Perhaps your landscape is a place you know well and have fond memories of; or maybe it’s a new place you’ve found that you want to tell others about.
The website will be open throughout June and July. Visit the website or listen to Beacon Radio for more information on the Heart of Landscape, including your chance to vote for your favourite place in the Black Country online during June. In July there will also be an Event Day at one of the landscapes on the map.
Whatever your favourite places might be, the Heart of Landscape website allows you to put them ‘on the map’ so that other people can learn about and enjoy them! You can also give your ideas for how they can be improved. All these ideas will be recorded and collected into a report on what makes the Black Country special.
http://www.heartoflandscape.com/
Perhaps your landscape is a place you know well and have fond memories of; or maybe it’s a new place you’ve found that you want to tell others about.
The website will be open throughout June and July. Visit the website or listen to Beacon Radio for more information on the Heart of Landscape, including your chance to vote for your favourite place in the Black Country online during June. In July there will also be an Event Day at one of the landscapes on the map.
Whatever your favourite places might be, the Heart of Landscape website allows you to put them ‘on the map’ so that other people can learn about and enjoy them! You can also give your ideas for how they can be improved. All these ideas will be recorded and collected into a report on what makes the Black Country special.
http://www.heartoflandscape.com/
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Tales from a churchyard – local history coffee morning - Tipton Library
Tales from a churchyard – local history coffee morning Tipton Library
Tuesday 27th July 10.30am – 12.30
Tipton Library is pleased to announce the latest in its popular series of local history coffee mornings when local author and historian Chris Smith will be coming in to talk about his latest book ‘Tales from a Churchyard’ on Tuesday 27th July at 10.30
The book tells tales of the churchyard at St John’s Church, Kates Hill which boasts many famous inhabitants including William Perry, the Tipton Slasher.
There will be copies of the book on sale and there will be a special raffle in aid of the Save St John’s Church appeal to win a local history goody bag
Robert Hazel, library manager, said that the events are always well attended and we look forward to another interesting morning. The book is full of wonderful stories and it should be a very popular event.
The event is FREE admission by ADVANCE ticket and tickets can be obtained by calling the library on 0121 557 1796
For more details on the campaign contact Deb Brownlee on 0787 119 5042. For more details on the library please contact Robert on 07500 608746
Tuesday 27th July 10.30am – 12.30
Tipton Library is pleased to announce the latest in its popular series of local history coffee mornings when local author and historian Chris Smith will be coming in to talk about his latest book ‘Tales from a Churchyard’ on Tuesday 27th July at 10.30
The book tells tales of the churchyard at St John’s Church, Kates Hill which boasts many famous inhabitants including William Perry, the Tipton Slasher.
There will be copies of the book on sale and there will be a special raffle in aid of the Save St John’s Church appeal to win a local history goody bag
Robert Hazel, library manager, said that the events are always well attended and we look forward to another interesting morning. The book is full of wonderful stories and it should be a very popular event.
The event is FREE admission by ADVANCE ticket and tickets can be obtained by calling the library on 0121 557 1796
For more details on the campaign contact Deb Brownlee on 0787 119 5042. For more details on the library please contact Robert on 07500 608746
Sunday, 4 July 2010
St John's Church Preservation Group news
Members of St John's Church Preservation Group aiming to save and restore St John's Church, Kates Hill are overjoyed following the news that a grant of £5000 from the Church Urban Fund has been approved which will go towards the cost of the essential feasibility study 'The Future For St John's Church', which engages specialist architects and community consultation experts to establish a sustainable future for the 170 year old Grade II listed building and includes assessing local demand for the church to be re-opened as an Anglican place of worship.
This means that grants totalling £12,000 have now been approved towards the initial appeal for £31,000 which was made up of £5000 for a new Lightning Conductor, £16,000 for waterproofing works and £10,000 for the feasibility study. The new grant means that Preservation Group funds formerly allocated to the feasibility study can now be used towards the waterproofing.
A grant of £5000 was recently approved by Dudley Council Central Dudley Area Committee for the Lightning Conductor, and a grant of £2000 was also recently granted by the Diocese of Worcester towards the feasibility study. Deb Brownlee chair of the Preservation Group "We have been working closely with the church authorities through the St John's Church Steering Group chaired by Archdeacon of Dudley Fred Trethewey and the grants now approved along with £14,000 we have raised to date means that we are now just a tantalising £5000 away from getting the restoration work started. We urge our supporters not only to share in our joy at receiving such magnificent help both from Dudley Council and the Church authorities but also to help us with a big push now to get this last few thousand in so that work can start. What a day it will be when the scaffolding goes up!"
Archdeacon Fred Trethewey says: “I am delighted that the Church Urban Fund has awarded the PCC of St John’s a grant of £5000 towards the costs of a feasibility study on the future of St John’s Church building. This is in addition to a grant of £2000 which has been made through the Diocese of Worcester. It will enable the Steering Group to progress its investigation into future possibilities and also enable funds to be released to carry out repairs on the building”. Patron of the group Dr Carl Chinn, "This shows just what incredible results can be achieved with a combination of support from local people and partnership working. I call on the people of the Black Country to throw their full weight behind the St John's Church Preservation Group and make sure that this last £5000 is raised in record time."
Anyone wishing to help can send donations to St John's Church Preservation Group, The Old School House, St John's Road, Kates Hill, Dudley, DY2 7JT. Donations of tombola prizes especially bottles and unwanted gift sets are also desperately needed and can be brought to the Preservation Group stall on Dudley Market any Saturday or to their new drop in centre in the Old School House which is open Monday to Friday.
Supporters can also run or jog to help raise funds at the Kates Hill Fun Run, organised by the St John's Church Preservation Group as part of the St Thomas's Community Games Programme and taking place on Wednesday 7 July on Green Park, Kates Hill. The run consists of up to 8 laps of the park, total distance just over 2 miles. Entry costs £2 for adults and £1 for children. Registration starts from 5pm on the day and the run starts at 7pm. Anyone who can obtain further sponsorship can get a sponsorship form from savestjohnschurch@hotmail.co.uk or by calling into the drop in centre. Telephone contact number is 0787 119 5042. There will be catering on site and anyone running in fancy dress will receive a small extra prize. All proceeds will go towards the church waterproofing appeal.
Supporters are also encouraged to collect their loose change and organise any other events they can eg coffee mornings and jumble sales to help raise funds. More information about the work of the Preservation Group can be found on http://www.savestjohnschurch.zoomshare.com/or by visiting the group on their Dudley Market Stall every Saturday. Donations can be sent to St John’s Church Preservation Group, The Old School House, St John’s Road, Dudley, DY2 7JT.
This means that grants totalling £12,000 have now been approved towards the initial appeal for £31,000 which was made up of £5000 for a new Lightning Conductor, £16,000 for waterproofing works and £10,000 for the feasibility study. The new grant means that Preservation Group funds formerly allocated to the feasibility study can now be used towards the waterproofing.
A grant of £5000 was recently approved by Dudley Council Central Dudley Area Committee for the Lightning Conductor, and a grant of £2000 was also recently granted by the Diocese of Worcester towards the feasibility study. Deb Brownlee chair of the Preservation Group "We have been working closely with the church authorities through the St John's Church Steering Group chaired by Archdeacon of Dudley Fred Trethewey and the grants now approved along with £14,000 we have raised to date means that we are now just a tantalising £5000 away from getting the restoration work started. We urge our supporters not only to share in our joy at receiving such magnificent help both from Dudley Council and the Church authorities but also to help us with a big push now to get this last few thousand in so that work can start. What a day it will be when the scaffolding goes up!"
Archdeacon Fred Trethewey says: “I am delighted that the Church Urban Fund has awarded the PCC of St John’s a grant of £5000 towards the costs of a feasibility study on the future of St John’s Church building. This is in addition to a grant of £2000 which has been made through the Diocese of Worcester. It will enable the Steering Group to progress its investigation into future possibilities and also enable funds to be released to carry out repairs on the building”. Patron of the group Dr Carl Chinn, "This shows just what incredible results can be achieved with a combination of support from local people and partnership working. I call on the people of the Black Country to throw their full weight behind the St John's Church Preservation Group and make sure that this last £5000 is raised in record time."
Anyone wishing to help can send donations to St John's Church Preservation Group, The Old School House, St John's Road, Kates Hill, Dudley, DY2 7JT. Donations of tombola prizes especially bottles and unwanted gift sets are also desperately needed and can be brought to the Preservation Group stall on Dudley Market any Saturday or to their new drop in centre in the Old School House which is open Monday to Friday.
Supporters can also run or jog to help raise funds at the Kates Hill Fun Run, organised by the St John's Church Preservation Group as part of the St Thomas's Community Games Programme and taking place on Wednesday 7 July on Green Park, Kates Hill. The run consists of up to 8 laps of the park, total distance just over 2 miles. Entry costs £2 for adults and £1 for children. Registration starts from 5pm on the day and the run starts at 7pm. Anyone who can obtain further sponsorship can get a sponsorship form from savestjohnschurch@hotmail.co.uk or by calling into the drop in centre. Telephone contact number is 0787 119 5042. There will be catering on site and anyone running in fancy dress will receive a small extra prize. All proceeds will go towards the church waterproofing appeal.
Supporters are also encouraged to collect their loose change and organise any other events they can eg coffee mornings and jumble sales to help raise funds. More information about the work of the Preservation Group can be found on http://www.savestjohnschurch.zoomshare.com/or by visiting the group on their Dudley Market Stall every Saturday. Donations can be sent to St John’s Church Preservation Group, The Old School House, St John’s Road, Dudley, DY2 7JT.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
BACK TO 1837 – BUT WHERE DO YOU GO THEN?
A one-day course designed to help people to research their family tree before 1837 will be held on Saturday 9 October 2010 at the Birmingham & Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham.
The course, co-ordinated by Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH) ,will cover Parish Registers and Bishop’s Transcripts; indexes; poor law records; early Wills and Inventories. Most of these records prior to civil registration in 1837 are held at local record offices and libraries and are not available on the internet.
The course starts at 10.00am and finishes at 4pm. The cost is £5 for non-members of the Society. The Society’s bookshop will also be available on the day.
For further details, please contact Jackie Cotterill on 01562 743912, email: gensec@bmsgh.org or visit the BMSGH website on http://www.bmsgh.org/
The course, co-ordinated by Birmingham & Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry (BMSGH) ,will cover Parish Registers and Bishop’s Transcripts; indexes; poor law records; early Wills and Inventories. Most of these records prior to civil registration in 1837 are held at local record offices and libraries and are not available on the internet.
The course starts at 10.00am and finishes at 4pm. The cost is £5 for non-members of the Society. The Society’s bookshop will also be available on the day.
For further details, please contact Jackie Cotterill on 01562 743912, email: gensec@bmsgh.org or visit the BMSGH website on http://www.bmsgh.org/
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Dawn to Dusk in the Black Country by Giggetty
Brian Langtry, the founder member of the Black Country folk group Giggetty, has contacted me recently. Many years ago he did several black and white drawings featured in The Blackcountryman magazine, several of them illustrating the poems of Jim William Jones Dudley’s foremost serious poet who is featured on the “Dawn to Dusk” CD.
The album “Dawn to Dusk in the Black Country” was the first and best selling album produced by Giggetty and copies can be seen to change hands on auction sites quite frequently the album having become something of a collectors item.
Brian has recently digitally re-mastered the album, which can be purchased from http://www.giggetty.co.uk/ and is now setting about getting the availability of this to the many interested folk of the Black Country.
I have suggested that Brian pens something for the next issue of The Blackcountryman, so we can learn a little more about Giggetty's past.
The album “Dawn to Dusk in the Black Country” was the first and best selling album produced by Giggetty and copies can be seen to change hands on auction sites quite frequently the album having become something of a collectors item.
Brian has recently digitally re-mastered the album, which can be purchased from http://www.giggetty.co.uk/ and is now setting about getting the availability of this to the many interested folk of the Black Country.
I have suggested that Brian pens something for the next issue of The Blackcountryman, so we can learn a little more about Giggetty's past.
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
TIPTON HARRIERS CENTENARY PROJECT - NEWSLETTER 3, MAY 2010
What’s been going on? It has been some months since we last updated you on what has been going on. In some ways the project has been overwhelmed with kind responses and offers of information to the various appeals.
The focus has been on the first 50 years and various material has been assembled to allow a “write up” of the period to 1960. This has been painstaking work involving trawling through minute books, newspaper archives and every copy of Athletics Weekly to try to find details of the Harriers and their athletic & social activities.
Each archive has to be scanned, read and documented properly and then returned safely. A number of informal interviews have been done with the likes of Allan Rushmer, Doug Fownes, Ron Bentley, Jack Corfield, Fred Tonks, Joe Gripton, Keith Boydon, Alf Breakwell & Harry Haden who have all given a fascinating insight into the Harriers and what the Club meant to them.
Keith Atkins & Peter Griffiths have done a presentation on the Harriers & the Project at the Public Library in Tipton attended by around 30 people. Later in the year the Library hopes to have a presentation on Sport in Tipton with the Harriers & Athletics playing a significant role. More on this when it arrives.
What is still to be done? To give you some idea of the scale of the work done to date there is already over 2400 pages of A4 notes in the form of a chronology that lists what the Harriers have been doing over the years. This document, in it’s own right, forms a significant historical statement of the history of the Harriers. It will of course continue to grow as new facts, figures and stories are unearthed and added. A large amount of facts are being amassed, but this needs filtering and transformed into a readable and interesting document.
There is a significant period to cover. The group have yet to look in detail at the career and contribution of Jack Holden, and to cover the Track & Field aspects of the Club that took off during the early 1970’s. Early approaches have been made to to Ray Fletcher & Alan Clay for their recollections on this aspect of the history. It is hoped to interview past members such as Roger Walters (sprinter and renowned coach) for their recollections of the sport in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s when track and field league competition was just taking off. This will compliment the material contained within the extensive writings of Roy Langford.
If you have any thoughts, recollections or ideas as to who should be spoken to then please get in touch.
What will be produced later this year is something that will relate the history, evolution and spirit of the Harriers. To this end Peter Griffiths has started the massive task of authoring this document.
It appears that the Club have lost track of a number of key club trophies and cups. We would like to try & track them down in order to photograph them and restore them to their proper place. If you know the whereabouts of any Club awards please let us know.
Official Function & Reunion Plans - Sadly unable to report much progress on this matter as the Club Committee have only just started to devote time and effort into thinking about the Centenary any events it plans to hold to help celebrate the occasion. Tom Wood, current Chairman, says this is in now in hand.
How Can You Help? We may have been inundated but that does not mean we do not want to hear from you. If you have any material and recollections that you feel could be included then please come forward and contact any of the three named at the bottom of this entry. If you feel you can write something down then please do so. It does not matter if it is handwritten or typed. If you are in contact with any other old members or their families then please pass a copy of this on to them. Also please let us have their contact details.
What are we after? One aspect we feel we would like to explore is to see if we have any old film material taken of the Harriers in action. Does anyone have any old cine films that contain footage of say road relays, track meetings, boxing day handicaps? Have they been converted to video/DVD? If you have, then please get in contact to add this different historical aspect to the project.
It is now clear that we are missing Club Minutes from 1976 onwards and would like anyone who may be has sets hidden away in a file/box to let us have them. Copies of AGM Annual Reports etc. would be a good insight as they often contained a resume of the activities of the club during the year.
We are still after any of the following:
Old photographs
Scrapbooks
Club magazines
Newspaper cuttings
Race programmes
Race results
Tipton 10 Mile Race Results
Club badges & stickers
Club Ties
Old club memorabilia
In fact we are interested in anything if it relates to Tipton Harriers. It doe not matter if it is just 1 or 100 items. We are interested.
We would like to borrow any items and as part of assembling as big an archive of material on the
Harriers for future generations we will then get them scanned/photographed. This might take a few weeks depending on how much there is.
Rest assured it will be safe with us and by helping out we will be preserving a valuable part of our local and national heritage. So get in your lofts and sort us out some stuff!
Please get in contact with Keith Atkins (see below).
Contacts
Keith Atkins – 01902 674335
36 Shenley Avenue, Woodsetton, Dudley, DY1 4LR
Pete Griffiths – 0121 458 2880
62 Old Oak Rd, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 9AJ
Chris Holloway – 01225 309124
tipton.harrier@yahoo.co.uk
The focus has been on the first 50 years and various material has been assembled to allow a “write up” of the period to 1960. This has been painstaking work involving trawling through minute books, newspaper archives and every copy of Athletics Weekly to try to find details of the Harriers and their athletic & social activities.
Each archive has to be scanned, read and documented properly and then returned safely. A number of informal interviews have been done with the likes of Allan Rushmer, Doug Fownes, Ron Bentley, Jack Corfield, Fred Tonks, Joe Gripton, Keith Boydon, Alf Breakwell & Harry Haden who have all given a fascinating insight into the Harriers and what the Club meant to them.
Keith Atkins & Peter Griffiths have done a presentation on the Harriers & the Project at the Public Library in Tipton attended by around 30 people. Later in the year the Library hopes to have a presentation on Sport in Tipton with the Harriers & Athletics playing a significant role. More on this when it arrives.
What is still to be done? To give you some idea of the scale of the work done to date there is already over 2400 pages of A4 notes in the form of a chronology that lists what the Harriers have been doing over the years. This document, in it’s own right, forms a significant historical statement of the history of the Harriers. It will of course continue to grow as new facts, figures and stories are unearthed and added. A large amount of facts are being amassed, but this needs filtering and transformed into a readable and interesting document.
There is a significant period to cover. The group have yet to look in detail at the career and contribution of Jack Holden, and to cover the Track & Field aspects of the Club that took off during the early 1970’s. Early approaches have been made to to Ray Fletcher & Alan Clay for their recollections on this aspect of the history. It is hoped to interview past members such as Roger Walters (sprinter and renowned coach) for their recollections of the sport in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s when track and field league competition was just taking off. This will compliment the material contained within the extensive writings of Roy Langford.
If you have any thoughts, recollections or ideas as to who should be spoken to then please get in touch.
What will be produced later this year is something that will relate the history, evolution and spirit of the Harriers. To this end Peter Griffiths has started the massive task of authoring this document.
It appears that the Club have lost track of a number of key club trophies and cups. We would like to try & track them down in order to photograph them and restore them to their proper place. If you know the whereabouts of any Club awards please let us know.
Official Function & Reunion Plans - Sadly unable to report much progress on this matter as the Club Committee have only just started to devote time and effort into thinking about the Centenary any events it plans to hold to help celebrate the occasion. Tom Wood, current Chairman, says this is in now in hand.
How Can You Help? We may have been inundated but that does not mean we do not want to hear from you. If you have any material and recollections that you feel could be included then please come forward and contact any of the three named at the bottom of this entry. If you feel you can write something down then please do so. It does not matter if it is handwritten or typed. If you are in contact with any other old members or their families then please pass a copy of this on to them. Also please let us have their contact details.
What are we after? One aspect we feel we would like to explore is to see if we have any old film material taken of the Harriers in action. Does anyone have any old cine films that contain footage of say road relays, track meetings, boxing day handicaps? Have they been converted to video/DVD? If you have, then please get in contact to add this different historical aspect to the project.
It is now clear that we are missing Club Minutes from 1976 onwards and would like anyone who may be has sets hidden away in a file/box to let us have them. Copies of AGM Annual Reports etc. would be a good insight as they often contained a resume of the activities of the club during the year.
We are still after any of the following:
Old photographs
Scrapbooks
Club magazines
Newspaper cuttings
Race programmes
Race results
Tipton 10 Mile Race Results
Club badges & stickers
Club Ties
Old club memorabilia
In fact we are interested in anything if it relates to Tipton Harriers. It doe not matter if it is just 1 or 100 items. We are interested.
We would like to borrow any items and as part of assembling as big an archive of material on the
Harriers for future generations we will then get them scanned/photographed. This might take a few weeks depending on how much there is.
Rest assured it will be safe with us and by helping out we will be preserving a valuable part of our local and national heritage. So get in your lofts and sort us out some stuff!
Please get in contact with Keith Atkins (see below).
Contacts
Keith Atkins – 01902 674335
36 Shenley Avenue, Woodsetton, Dudley, DY1 4LR
Pete Griffiths – 0121 458 2880
62 Old Oak Rd, Kings Norton, Birmingham, B38 9AJ
Chris Holloway – 01225 309124
tipton.harrier@yahoo.co.uk
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