Competition: Tell us your Wednesfield memories and win a limited edition calendar
Recently the Wednesfield Area Action Network put together a very special 2010 calendar to celebrate Wednesfield’s history.
WAAN teamed up with staff from the Wolverhampton Archives who very kindly allowed the use of 24 historic photographs that depict Wednesfield’s past. WAAN’s members have picked photos featuring local landmarks, some of which still exist today in an effort to show how Wednesfield has changed over the years.
We have been lucky enough to get our hands on 12 of these glossy A4 calendars to give away to our readers. Read on to find out how to win a calendar…
If you’d like to win one of these fantastic limited edition calendars and own a little piece of local history, all you have to do is post a comment on the WV11 website by clicking here, and tell us your favourite Wednesfield memory. Your memory doesn’t have to be as old as some of these photos, we just want to hear your stories of every day life in the area.
We will pick our 12 favourite memories/stories and notify the winners – your stories will also be featured on the website. Please make sure you add your email address on the comments form in order for us to contact you.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.
Quite a recent memory but I thought I'd start things off.
I was in the supermarket last year as it was being re-branded as a Co-op and decided to buy my partner some sweets as she is fond of reminiscing when her grandparents used to buy her sweets on the weekend from Fine Fare. I heard a mobile phone ring and a little old women shouted down the handset.
"I'm in the Village buying bread at Fine Fare."
It doesn't matter what changes happen and whose name is plastered all over the walls somethings never change it's still the village and it's still Fine Fare.
Ha – How right you are Steve, My Great Grandad used to live in the high rise flats near New Cross and we used to go and visit with him every Friday morning, I remember there being lots of talk about "the village" and me having no idea what they were talking about – It was only a little later on that I realised they meant Wednesfield town and quite often in recent years I've caught myself calling it "the Village" too!!
I remember playing over Wednesfield flower park on the long 1970’s summer nights.Our house 15 South Avenue backed onto the alleyway which borders the Park, me and & Brothers used to play golf on the pitch and Putt course and climb the trees.
We used to play tracker on the park with about what seemed hundreds of other kids from the area. Or we used to get chased of the bowling green by the Parkie’ because we used to break dance on it with our Lino.
On saturdays it used to be 20 a side playing footie on top of the swing park, and when the parkie’ locked the gates we used to climb back over and finish our games.
Oh what memories, I miss them days!!
What a day it was when the Queen came to Wednesfield, our school Long knowle along with many others lined up in Lakefield to watch Her Majesty drive past i think she was wearing pink that day back in the 60s, but it was all over in a moment and i could be wrong of the colour.Back in them days i was more intrested in going to the Regal cinema on the corner of Alfred Squire road and High Street on a Saturday morning , walking from the Long knowle estate down Amos Lane over the park thru the flower gardens and out down the alleyway and into Wednesfield the back way.