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Alderman John Ashley Kilvert JP (1833–1920) was an English soldier and later businessman and politician, who became Mayor of Wednesbury, then in Staffordshire, England. He served as a cavalryman with the 11th Hussars in the Crimean War, where he survived the Charge of the Light Brigade. His medals are displayed at Wednesbury Museum and Art ...
Thomas Frederick Worrall (1872–1957) was a Staffordshire-born manual worker and watercolourist.He lived for a time in Lancashire and in the upper Calder Valley area of Yorkshire but spent most of his adult life in Barry, in South Wales, where he was also deeply involved in politics and stood for parliament in the general election of 1923 representing the Labour Party.
Wednesbury (/ ˈ w ɛ n z b ər i / [1] locally [ˈwɛnzbriː]) is a market town in the Sandwell district, in the county of the West Midlands, England - historically in Staffordshire.It is located near the source of the River Tame, and is part of the Black Country.
Frederick Hackwood was born on 18 April 1851 at 69 High Street East, Wednesbury, to Enoch and Sarah Hackwood.His father was a tailor and the family had moved to Wednesbury from Stoke-on-Trent in the mid-18th century. [1]
The earliest known item of human remains discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales; it dates from about 230,000 years before present (BP) in the Lower Palaeolithic period, [1] and from then, there have been skeletal remains found of the Paleolithic Age man in multiple regions of Wales ...
In the 1536 acts of the Union, a Court of Great Sessions in Wales was created in Wales for four separate circuits. The circuits each had 3 counties involved. Some of the original territorial Marcher lordships were split into regional circuits and others were created from regions of the former Principality of Wales: [6] Anglesey, Caernarfon ...
Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery is a purpose-built Victorian art gallery in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England. It is notable for its Ruskin Pottery collection [ 1 ] and for hosting the first public display of the Stuckism art movement.
W. Wednesbury (UK Parliament constituency) 1932 Wednesbury by-election; Wednesbury Central railway station; Wednesbury Charity Cup; Wednesbury Herald; Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery