Great Wyrley’s Memorial Garden: A Potted History

Some of the War Memorial Committee outside of the gates, 1921. Unknown.

This article is an amalgam of different parts of the forthcoming Heritage Lottery funded book on the Great Wyrley area during the Great War. It pulls together the information on what is now the Great Wyrley Memorial Garden, in order to give a straight-forward, single narrative of one of the townships most sacred spaces… https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/wyrley-landywood/great-wyrley-memorial-garden-a-potted-history/

 

The Gift of Time (Part TWO)

The second part of a research story to be found in an old pocket watch and fob, this part looking at social conditions, family, work and Great War service for two families linked by the ICI company… https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/articles-other/the-gift-of-time-part-two/

Herbert Higgs AB: Jutland, the Somme of the Sea.

Herbert Thomas Higgs, in the Walsall Observer, 17 June 1916

Herbie Higgs turned out to be our only fallen sailor and the search for this man took me from Oldbury to Aldridge, then to Castleford (Yorkshire), then to Heath End (North Walsall) and finally to Great Wyrley. The story would take in not only his attestation to serve, but also that of a father that would outlive all of his natural children – a fate no parent deserves… https://wyrleyblog.wordpress.com/wyrley-landywood/great-wyrleys-fallen-wwi/herbert-higgs-ab-jutland-the-somme-of-the-sea/