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International Piano Star Jonathan Powell will be playing back home this weekend. Jonathan spent his childhood in Wolverhampton, near St Michael and All Angels Church, Tettenhall, and sang as a boy chorister there in the late 1970s. He will be at St Michael’s on Saturday at 3pm playing a century of Polish music including music by Szymankowski, Szymanowska and lots of Chopin. The programme…

The Friends of Wolverhampton City Archives annual Local History Fair will be held at the Molineux Hotel Building on Saturday 23rd November (10-4). There is a small fee for admission to the listed building which is home to Wolverhampton Archive. A poster for Trapeze at The Woolpack, Wolverhampton There will be children’s activities and lots of history, archaeological and community exhibits with…

Today is the 80th anniversary of #Wolverhampton's second presentation #Spitfire - The #Wulfrun - being allocated to No19 Squadron for sweeps and Circus operations during #WW2

The Inspirer Spitfire AB917 (front) and Wulfrun (P8175) scale models created by Neil Willis and Andy Walker for the 80th anniversary of the Wolverhampton Express & Star and Wolverhampton Mayor’s Fighter Funds By Stephen King and Jim Barrow An exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of what may have been the first World War II fighter aircraft fund of any UK town, a second fund, two Spitfire…

Today is the 80th anniversary of #Wolverhampton's second presentation #Spitfire - The #Wulfrun - being allocated to No19 Squadron for sweeps and Circus operations during #WW2

The Inspirer Spitfire AB917 (front) and Wulfrun (P8175) scale models created by Neil Willis and Andy Walker for the 80th anniversary of the Wolverhampton Express & Star and Wolverhampton Mayor’s Fighter Funds By Stephen King and Jim Barrow An exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of what may have been the first World War II fighter aircraft fund of any UK town, a second fund, two Spitfire…

Eightieth anniversary of Queen presenting colours to Royal Dutch forces at Wrottesley

The August 1941 Wolverhampton Express and Star front page photograph of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Bernhard at the ceremony where she presented colours to the Royal Dutch forces at their Wrottesley Park base By Angus Dunphy and Jim Barrow August 27th is the 80th anniversary of the Queen of the Netherlands presenting colours to Royal Dutch forces based at Wrottesley Park on Wolverhampton’s…

Remembrance week centenaries of WW1 Memorial trees

By Jim Barrow

Appropriate reading and poppy mask for the centenaries of the plantings of two sets of the Wolverhampton WW1 Memorial Trees

The 2020 Covid-19 pandemic has made remembrance very different – as it was in Wolverhampton a century ago.

Remembrance Sunday, on the second Sunday of the month closest to November 11, known as Remembrance Day, has a two minute silence at 11am.…

Centenaries of the WW1 Memorial Trees of Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton

Riches Street trees in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton

Roads of Remembrance in Wolverhampton

How trees were used to commemorate the fallen.

Jim Barrow

The centenaries of ‘Green’ tributes to those who lived, studied and worked in Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, and who fell in the First World War is this month – October 2020.

It was part of a scheme initiated by Wolverhampton Mayor,…

The first of the many?

The Inspirer Spitfire AB917 (front) and Wulfrun (P8175) scale models created by Neil Willis and Andy Walker for the 80th anniversary of the Wolverhampton Express & Star and Wolverhampton Mayor’s Fighter Funds

By Stephen King and Jim Barrow

An exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of what may have been the first World War II fighter aircraft fund of any UK town, a second fund, two Spitfire…

Pension ‘Liberation’

Pension scheme members could see £1bn of their pension cash moved to firms who are singling them out and claiming that they can help them get at their pension cash early this year. So far it is estimated that £600m has gone to ‘Pension Liberation’ schemes so far – but numbers of transfers are rising. With people under pressure trying to pay mortgages, loans, credit card bills and everyday living…

Just the ticket for a rail ramble round Switzerland and France to see the England Lionesses’ group games in the Women’s World Cup- and random stream of unconsciousness dredged up on the trains from Nice to Le Havre for the match against Argentina.

The trains took the strain from Wolverhampton To London and then to Paris via Eurostar before Paris to Geneva for a few beers with Kiwi nephew David…