Black Country History blog posts
Those items with (V) contain links to YouTube videos.
- Woodside Iron Works c 1860
- Agenoria and Stourbridge Lion – two chronological conundrums
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 5. Woodside Iron works
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 4. National people and events
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 3. Local people and events
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 2. The family entries
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 1. Introduction
- Agenoria, Aristocrats and Iron Masters (V)
- The Brettells of Kingswinford
- Jonathan Stokes and Wordsley
- Dudley and its railways 1868
- Tansey Green Anglican Mission Room.
- The timeline of the Crooked House Affair (from January 2024)
- The Black Country – from the Stone Age to Domesday
- The Oak Farm (Crooked House) Mill and its watercourses
- The timeline of the Crooked House Affair (March to December 2023)
- The early history of the Crooked House
- The fields that survived
- A tale of two maps (V)
- Migration to the western Black Country, 1800 to 1850
- Reflections on “The whole world a Black Country” by Matt Stallard
- The Fowler maps of Kingswinford parish of 1822 and 1840
- The Pensnett Canal and Pensnett Railway
- Kingswinford Junction 1949
- The OWWR Kingswinford branch 1854
- The Pensnett Victoria Saxhorn Band
- The Tiled House Estate
- The Corbyn’s Hall Estate
- Kingswinford Landowners and Industrialists in the 19th Century – some surprising names
- Kingswinford families – the Corbyns, the Bendys and the Hodgetts. Part 3 – The Hodgetts of Shut End and Prestwood
- Kingswinford families – the Corbyns, the Bendys and the Hodgetts. Part 2 – The Bendys of Shut End and Holbeache
- Kingswinford families – the Corbyns, the Bendys and the Hodgetts. Part 1 – The Corbyns of Corbyn’s Hall
- Cricket and Football in Pensnett in the 19th Century
- The Kingswinford Tithe Agreement
- Kingswinford parish – associations with slavery
- A policeman’s life – Samuel Hicklin (1858-1924) Part 3
- A policeman’s life – Samuel Hicklin (1858-1924) Part 2
- A policeman’s life – Samuel Hicklin (1858-1924) Part 1 (V)
- The Earl of Dudley’s Railway – Accidents and incidents
- Coal mining in the Shut End and Corbyn’s Hall area
- Corbyn’s Hall from above
- The Shut End Primitive Methodist Chapel. Part 3 – Ministers and families
- The Shut End Primitive Methodist Chapel. Part 2 – The Baptismal Register
- The Shut End Primitive Methodist Chapel Part 1. Introduction and the chapel building
- The railways of Shut End and Corbyn’s Hall
- Land exchanges in the Ashwood Enclosure Act of 1784
- The Earl of Dudley’s Railway
Kingswinford Manor and Parish (ebook)
The second edition of the e book “Kingswinford Manor and Parish – New chapters from the history of Kingswinford, Staffordshire”, which considers aspects the history of Kingswinford Manor and Parish from the time of the Romans through to the end of the 19th century.
Ecclesiatical Affair (ebook)
The ebook “An Ecclesiastical Affair”, which sets out to tells the story of a series of events that shook the small Black Country parish of Pensnett in 1870.
Engineering, history and ecclesiology 