Archive for the ‘Cinema’ Category

Harrison’s Club, opened in 1909. from a postcard printed around 1921.

This is the third of three sub-articles that make up the section in the forthcoming Great Wyrley in the Great War book on the position of the township prior to the war breaking out. This one looks at social life in the Great Wyrley area…

Great Wyrley and the Great War: Before the War (3/3)

The Reedswood tank sometime between 1925 and 1934. W05861: Walsall Local History Centre

PART 4: opens with a review of changes in Walsall and the army between the Crimea and WWI, then Walsall’s experience of WWI in general… https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/?page_id=6402&preview=true

The Imperial while under transformation to a Wetherspoon's outlet. September 1997. (Stuart Williams)

The Imperial while under transformation to a Wetherspoon’s outlet. September 1997.
(Stuart Williams)

The final episode of the three-part history of the Walsall Imperial: this one deals with censorship, Sunday trading, the rise of televison, closure, conversion to a bingo hall and finally, its rebirth as a Wetherspoon’s. https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/walsall/the-walsall-imperial-1868-2014/the-walsall-imperial-3/

May 1914, plans submittied to Walsall Council for the rebuilding of the Imperial.

May 1914, plans submittied to Walsall Council for the rebuilding of the Imperial.


The second of a three-part history of the Walsall Imperial: early films, censorship, the Battle of the Somme, talkies and Technicolor – the rise and the start of the decline of the Imperial https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/walsall/the-walsall-imperial-1868-2014/the-walsall-imperial-2/

The first part of a three-part history of the Walsall Imperial: Built in 1868 as the Agricultural Hall, it has been a corn exchange, public venue, concert hall, theatre, cinema, bingo hall and finally a Wetherspoon’s pub…https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/walsall/the-walsall-imperial-1/

The Imperial, 1899

The Imperial, 1899