Workshop about finding your ancestors in unexpected places
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Have you compiled a family tree but want to know more about how your ancestors lived? Then Walsall Local History Centre has just the thing for you!
A workshop in Essex Street will examine archives and other sources which you can use to bring your ancestors to life if they attended a non-Anglican church or chapel.
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Exhibition celebrates Walsall's historic royal connection
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A new exhibition looking at Walsall's links with the Royal Family has opened at Walsall Local History Centre.
‘Walsall and the Royal Family’, which reproduces many fascinating documents, photographs and ephemera dating from the time of the first Queen Elizabeth to the present sovereign, is all set to form a very special part of Walsall’s celebrations of this year's Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Museum display celebrates achievement and diversity in Walsall
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A new display at Walsall Museum this month celebrates the achievements of Walsall’s Black Reading Group, who were among the first winners of a Mayor’s Civic Award in 2003.
The Black Reading Group is a multi-cultural group based at Walsall Central Library and meets regularly to read Black authors and develop their own writing. In 2005 the group published ‘Dis n Dat’, a collection of poems and other writings by members of the group. Copies of ‘Dis n Dat’, as well as examples of some of the other books the group has read over the years and photos of some of their activities are on show in the display. The display was put together with the assistance of Carl Green, a representative of the group who received the Civic Award on their behalf in 2003.
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Share your Royal memories with Walsall Museum
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Walsall Royal fans are being invited to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year with Walsall Museum - which will be marking the monarch's 60th year with two special displays.
From Tuesday 6 March until Saturday 14 April, the museum will be displaying Jubilee and Royal memorabilia and photographs on loan from local people.
From 15 May to 30 June, visitors will be able to see a selection of historic artefacts from the museum’s collection to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Queen’s visit to the Crabtree Factory on 24 May 1962.
This collection includes the visitor’s book signed by Her Majesty.
And residents can play their own part in these displays by loaning any items or keepsakes from previous Royal occasions and Jubilees to go on show in the museum.
Walsall workshop putting flesh on the bones of family history
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A workshop is being held at Walsall Local History Centre for residents to discover more about their family and where they lived.
The workshop at Walsall Local History Centre, Essex Street, shows people how to find out about the places where their ancestors lived, the jobs which they did and how they spent their leisure time.
Councillor Anthony Harris, cabinet member for leisure at Walsall Council, said: “Once family historians have some names and dates for their ancestors they start wondering what their lives were like. This workshop will look at how to build up a picture of the communities in which they lived, worked and played.
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