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2009 Round-Up

The latest news on what Ned has got up to in 2009 and what the future holds can be found here: http://www.nedwilliams.co.uk/news/2009-update/189

Quarry Bank & The Delphi

This is Ned Williams and the Mount Pleasant Local History Group’s third book about Quarry Bank and this time they take a fresh look at this little Black Country township, plus the even smaller place next door – simply known as The Delph. The area covered is part of the modern Metropolitan Borough of Dudley – the capital of the Black Country. All human life was to be found in these communities of colliers, brickyard workers and bucket-bashers before the days when motorists roared by on their way to the Merry Hill Shopping Centre. This collection of old photographs will make you pause awhile and explore some of the old shops, chapels, canals, vanished industrial enterprises, workshops and byways you never knew existed.

Book Purchase

Amazon; Quarry Bank and The Delph: Britain in Old Photographs