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| Peter's in Wolverhampton. He wasn't a curate or a lay-preacher, but I remember he preached some very good sermons. COCKSPARROW HALL In the back lane on the right, going towards Chillington, there was a long low house, and next to it was Cocksparrow Hall. This was a two-storey building, one room up and one room down, but the room was only about eight feet long and the stairs led off it. Hanging on a hook was an old police-man�s helmet. There were one or two houses like that in Codsall Wood, for instance there was one in County Lane. |
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| Haymaking in Codsall Wood - The Crown Public House is in the foreground on the left |
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| CHIMNEY SWEEP When people wanted the chimney sweep about half a dozen of them would get together and elect to have their chimneys done on the same day. Then the sweep would come out for the day. His name was Plant and he came over from Brewood in his pony and trap. People in Codsall had Mr Milton. They used brushes in those days of course and the soot was a valuable fertiliser for the garden. RADIOS AND NEWSPAPERS Tom Bright realised that as there were no newspapers there was an opportunity here for someone to provide a service, so he began a delivery, but this wasn't until I was at the High School. My parents had the Birmingham Weekly Post, so that as Birmingham people they could keep in touch. In the same way, the employees who had come with the Gaskells from Liverpool had the Liverpool Weekly |
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