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22 January 2010 ~ 4 Comments

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.

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…

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14 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

WAAN calendar launch this Wednesday

The Wednesfield Area Action Network (WAAN) is holding a launch event for their 2010 calendar at the Wolverhampton Archives building this Wednesday.
WAAN has been working closely with Wolverhampton Archives to produce a limited edition 2010 calendar featuring 24 historic photos of Wednesfield. Some of the photos span back over 100 years and show a very [...]

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05 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Historic Wednesfield: A flag for Wednesfield?

Over on iBostin.com, Phillip Tibbets, researcher of Heraldic Art and co-founder of Heartland Heritagewear has written an article about designing a flag for Wednesfield using elements of the town’s historic coat of arms.
Phillip’s flag design incorporates both colours and imagery from the coat of arms and he explains how some of these elements came about [...]

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10 October 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Historic Wednesfield: Trap Making

Last week we came across an article about Wednesfield’s history of trap making, so we thought we’d share it on WV11.
The Wednesfield area was renowned as the British centre for trap making during the Victorian era and the traps that were made in Wednesfield were exported in huge numbers around the world.
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