People who live in Heath Town are being given an opportunity to improve their area with more than £500,000 for community facilities. In 2008, Wolverhampton City Council decided to transfer management of Heath Town from the Heath Town Estate Management Board, a Tenant Management Organisation, to Wolverhampton Homes. The former Tenant Management Organisation had £559,216 […]
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We recently attempted to contact all of the Parliamentary candidates standing for Wolverhampton North East in the general election to ask them if they had a message for the readers of WV11 – the people who can choose to elect them in this Thursday’s general election. Unfortunately we were only able to find contact emails […]
Former Mayor of Wolverhampton Phil Bateman is leading calls for Wolverhampton City Council to mark the anniversary of the Battle of Wodensfield (Wednesfield) which took place between the Anglo Saxons and the Danes on the 4th & 5th of August 1100 years ago. Phil said: “There is a strong local opinion that the City Council […]
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…
Two of Wednesfield’s most popular watering holes have recently been reviewed by the PubBlog. Both the The Vine Inn and The Pyle Cock have a lot of history and remain ‘traditional’ style pubs despite it being 2010… But what we want to know is which of Wednesfield’s pubs is your favourite? Vote in our poll […]
Blogger ‘Captain Ahab’ has written an in depth post about Bentley Canal which passes through Wednesfield. The blog post not only contains a detailed history of the Canal and it’s origins, but also includes ‘then and now’ photos of the Canal from 1992 before much of the re-development work in the area began. One such […]
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. Read the […]