EPW024713 ENGLAND (1928). St Matthew's Church and environs, Walsall, 1928

Walsall Town Hall

The dome of the Carlton Hotel in High Street.

Bullocks Row

The Ditch

Upper Rushall Street

The Guildhall and police station.

Walsall School of Art.

The Brotherhood building.

Ablewell Street.

Church Street, in 1928 devoid of all the housing that used to line both sides of the street. My great grandfather, Henry Moseley (picture attached) was born at 8 Church Street in May 1850. The 1851 census shows the Moseleys shared number 8 with six members of the Whittall family!

The premises of what was The Barley Mow pub. At the time of the photograph being taken it was delicensed and was used as a shop. The watercolour and gouache painting shows the pub in its heyday around 1895.

A few doors up from the Duke of York pub at number 35 Dudley Street lived Mary Berwick, my wife's great, great aunt. Mary was widowed in 1861 and moved from Green Lane to Dudley Street where she lived and carried on her butchery business. The 1871 Census list the occupants as being:- Mary (head, widow) 44, Butcher - b. Walsall Joseph (son, single) 22, Butcher’s assistant - b. Walsall Mary Jane (dau, single) 16 - b. Walsall Elizabeth (dau) 14, Scholar - b. Walsall Eliza (dau) 11, Scholar - b. Walsall Mary Meeson (mother, widow) 76 - b. Walsall In 1876 an incident occurred where Mary threatened a neighbour who had in turn threatened Mary's daughter Elizabeth. Both parties went to court but the judge decided it was six of one and half dozen of another but fined both women one shilling each nevertheless! Mary died in 1902 and left over £7,000 after investing in various businesses in Walsall.

The first factory of J. A. Crabtree Company Limited on Upper Rushall Street, previously occupied by another well known Walsall company, John Leckie Limited. The premises are now part of the Lyndon House Hotel although it has lost one storey, down from three to two now. The top storey facing onto Upp. Rushall Street was the office of John Crabtree.

Old Blue Coat School (Girls & Infants c.1885)

Duke of York, 31 Dudley Street.

55 George Street My paternal grandparents lived here from the late 1920s to the early 1980s. My father's name was William Henry Jones.

Hill Street

Bridge Street

Freer Street

Park Street

High Street