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John Parker was born in the small district of Toll End in the heart of the Black Country in 1921, the son of a clay miner and grandson of a coal miner and a boatman. After forty years living and working in and around London, with his wife Dorothy and two children, he retired at the age of sixty and moved with Dorothy to Stratford upon Avon.

Presents an account of an organisation that has faced crises and challenges, but one that has risen to become a strong and modern business without ever sacrificing its founding ideal of helping ordinary people to improve the lives of them and their families.

Traces the origins of Midland Heart to the 1920s when it became 'passionate about communities', improving slum housing in Birmingham and campaigning for clearance. This book portrays developments in the inter-war period and beyond, when a range of other housing associations were created as part of the response to the Shelter homeless campaign.

Born in 1699, into an aristocratic family, Henrietta St John as she then was, had the world at her feet. But an unsatisfactory marriage to Robert Knight, later Lord Luxborough, alleged misconduct and subsequent banishment, could have destroyed a woman of lesser character. This book tells the tale of her courage and persistence.

Presents the story of a 45 year journey to 109 countries. This work describes organisations that include the Twenty Two Club in Birmingham, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and the Outward Bound Trust.

Moving through the ages, from the chantries of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, to the busy eighteenth century organists whose enterprise led to the great nineteenth century Musical Festivals and culminating in the age of the orchestra in the twentieth, this book describes how the foundation was laid.

George Edward Allen started Motor Coach operations in the late 1920s from Darwin Street in the Balsall Heath district of Birmingham. The company specialised in private hire, excursions and holiday coach travel. This work contains a collection of photographs to illustrate the history of the company and of those taken over.

When Hitler invaded Poland, little did he realise that, not only was he taking on the allies, but also a group of Boy Scouts from Streetly, known as the 'Yellow Six'. Their hilarious attempts to assist the war effort are chronicled by their modestly named L*E*A*D*E*R.

Takes you on a tour through the wacky West Midlands. This work uncovers some of the region's fine characters, from Hoover blowing housewives to Subbuteo streakers. It also contains the tale of the man who lives on bacon butties alone and the football fan that has missed only five matches in 60 years.

For 175 years, men and women of the Metropolitan Police have helped to safeguard London. In peacetime and in war, they have frequently risked their own lives to protect the citizens of the capital. Sadly, not all those who earned medals survived to collect them.

This title tells the 18th century story of Eliza Asbury, uncoupling many of the myths that have grown up about the Asbury family. She lived in Great Barr where hostility to her Methodist faith was never far from the surface and her son Frank was the first Protestant Bishop in North America.

Residuary Legatee is the title given by the author to her role as Headmaster's wife at two well known Midland public schools. The author's description of the characters she met along the way make for interesting and amusing reading.

This is a collection of essays, some short, some relatively long, dealing with places or personalities connected in some way with the Cotswolds. The extent of the topics covered is wide, ranging from the "Cotswold Olimpicks" to John Wesley, and from the Arts & Crafts movement to Vaughan Williams.