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The Cradley Then & Now 3xDVD set of 54 heritage films (around 6 hours in all) is broadly divided into: Cradley History & People, Work & Play and War & Peace.

Aspects of the community's unique character, what its people have experienced at work and play, as well as their exploits during the years of war, are explored.

Featuring: Stories that reflect life in Cradley and the Black Country over the centuries - written, narrated and presented by local people with works by local artists and musicians.

Cradley Then & Now Heritage Project

The 3xDVD set:

UK £20.00 (FREE Postage and Packing) or £7.00 each

Worldwide £24.99 (+ £5.00 Postage and Packing)

Halesowen and Cradley (2 DVDs)

VOLUME 1 Halesowen: Original film of Halesowen recorded in 1965. Reproduced with music from local artists. A fascinating insight into life in old Halesowen. Highlights include: Leasowes Park; Golf Club; Halesowen Railway Station, Pannier (No.3607); Stewarts & Lloyds; Town Centre development; College, Grammar & Technical Schools; Walter Somers; James Grove & Sons; Halesowen Cricket & Town Football, and much more.

Beech Tree Colliery: Former miners and surface workers speak about the pit and its closure. Chainmaking: Women who made chain, chain strikers & chain makers; Small chain to the Titanic chain and anchor. Flint Fields of Oldnall: Mesolithic flints on Oldnall fields; Romano British pottery.

VOLUME 2 Vanishing Britain: Hand Made Chain: Original short black and white film recorded in 1961 with chainmaker Will Bloomer at the chain works of Jones & Lloyd.

Brick: A Forgotten Industry: Local people talk about the importance of brick making to the development of industry.

Gardeners: Growing fruit, flowers vegetables, shrubs and trees is something that many people enjoy.

Cub Scouts & Brownies: The Black Country has a long association with the scout and guide movements since their foundation.

Pigs: This is a short account of how pigs were fed on left-over scraps and later slaughtered for the table.

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Each Volume (DVD):

UK £12.99 (+ £1.50 Postage and Packing)

Worldwide £12.99 (+ £5.00 Postage and Packing)

Cradley Heath DVD

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12.99

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Cradley has a long and rich history and is fortunate also in being well endowed with local historians who have recorded and interpreted it, in word, song, drawings and paintings, and more recently, in film.

All the books and other media listed below are available by post. Please e-mail Jill Guest for details of postal charges and for overseas postage if available. We can arrange for PayPal to be used for overseas purchasers.

NEW BOOKS (2018)

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Some of Cradley's Finest, World War Two, The men named on the Cradley War Memorial - and some that aren't

This is Terry's encyclopedic follow-up to "Cradley's Finest - World War 1". The cover may be similar but the content is totally new, all 557 pages.

[Published by Midland Film and Art, 2017]

Terry Evans

on, Coal & Roses, A study of a 19th century Black Country family of ironmasters in the towns of Moxley, Darlaston, Wednesbury, Bilston and Old Hill

[Published by the Black Country Society, February 2018]

Please order direct from the author by emailing Keith Robinson

Keith Robinson

9.99

Some of Cradley's Finest, World War One, The Men Named on the Cradley War Memorial - and some that aren't

Cradley Heritage Films (DVD) (July 2011)

Lye and Wollescote Cemetery and Chapels

A Black Country Miscellany, Aspects of West Midlands History

CRADLEY (AND NEARBY) BOOKS FOR SALE

Title	Author	Price
Some of Cradley's Finest, World War One, The Men Named on the Cradley War Memorial - and some that aren't [Published by Cradley Then & Now]	Terry Evans	12.00
A Black Country Miscellany, Aspects of West Midlands History	Andrew Homer	7.99 + postage / packaging
The Lost 29, Remembering the soldiers of the Great War buried and commmemorated in the Lye & Wollescote Cemetery [Published by West Midlands Historic Trust]	Jean Weston and Marlene Price	9.99
Cradley Celebrates the Coronation 1953 What we did in 1953, including Morris Dancing and a ladies' and gents' knobbly knees competition! Margaret's latest book is packed with information: names, dates, places, documents and photographs.	Researched and compiled by Margaret Bradley	5.00
Cradley Then and Now, A book by Cradley folk, for Cradley folk		5.00
Cradley Heritage Trail - A guide to a walk around 70+ historic Cradley locations. You can download the Trail for free from this web site, but it’ so much easier to carry a small book around with you!	Cradley Then & Now Heritage Project	4.00
The Cradley Heath Women Chain-makers' Strike of 1910	Margaret Bradley	6.00
History of Cradley, Cradley Mills on the Stour, A study of the development of Cradley water mills from agricultural to industrial to extinction.	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	9.00
Cradley Looking Back (this is Peter's 3rd book, the first two are now out of print and thus unavailable)	Peter Barnsley	3.00 (reduced price)
Fragments from the History of Cradley, 22 Essays	Norman Bird	5.00
Victory in Europe, Cradley in 1945	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	5.00
History of Cradley Chapels Part 1 1700-1800	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	4.00
History of Cradley Chapels Part 2 1800-1900	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	7.00
History of Cradley Chapels Part 3 1900-2000	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	7.50
History of Cradley, Cradley Baptist Trust Deeds 1778-1863, A study and transcript of property deeds relating to Cradley Baptist Church	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	4.50
History of Cradley, 1782 Survey, A Study of Cradley and the Enclosure Book	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	4.50
History of Cradley, Wills and Inventories, A Study of Life in Cradley in the 16th & 17th Centuries	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	11.00
History of Cradley, Court Rolls Part 1 1519-1558	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	8.00
History of Cradley, Court Rolls Part 2 1565-1596	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	8.00
History of Cradley, Court Rolls Part 3 1609-1644	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	14.00
History of Cradley, Tithe Maps & Schedules, A study and transcription of Cradley Tithe Map & Apportionment 1843	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	6.00
A Mirror to the Flock, A Transcription of the Notebooks of Rev. James Hesselgrave Thompson, Notebook One - 1857	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	6.00
A Mirror to the Flock, A Transcription of the Notebooks of Rev. James Hesselgrave Thompson, Notebook Two - 1863	Margaret Bradley and Barry Blunt	4.00
A Mirror to the Flock - both the above Notebooks purchased together		9.00
The History of Corngreaves Hall	Margaret Bradley	5.00
Oldnall from prehistoric times to present	Margaret Bradley	5.00
From Lye 'to Parts beyond the Seas'	Don Cochrane	5.00
History of Park Lane Chapel, Netherend and Diary of the War Years 1939-45 at Netherend Chapel	Rev A.J. Heale. Transcribed from original documents by Jill Guest	6.00
Cradley, A History (gold cover)	Cliff Willetts	3.50
When I Was a Boy (Books I, II and III combined) - Cliff's memories of Cradley and Two Gates around 1900	Cliff Willetts	3.00
Two Gates Ragged School, Through the Years, 1867 to 2003	Barry Willetts	5.00