“I never realised it'd go viral!”

The Pen indicated authority in our household, Mother being able to run the household efficiently. 

We love these photographs sent in by Karen Thomas of the Dudley Punk and Goth days.

Do you know anyone in these pictures?

Dudley based photographer Tia Lloyd took inspiration to undertake this project came from their curiosity in the skinhead subculture as well as an interest in the misconception and poor stereotypes skinheads have been branded with since the 80’s.

Windrush Day marks the anniversary of the arrival of MV Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury, near London, on 22 June 1948. The arrival of the Empire Windrush nearly 73 years ago marked a seminal moment in Britain’s history and has come to represent the rich diversity of this nation.

My grandfather’s on both sides of my family migrated from Jamaica to Dudley in the 1950’s as part of the Windrush Generation. Unknown to each other, they embarked on the adventure across the Atlantic Ocean, landing on Himley Road that was well known for renting shared accommodation to young Caribbean migrants.

Dudley poet Laura Jane Round performs her poem ‘Portrait of a 20th Century Ladies Toilet’

Artist Paul Bloomer discusses his etching based on a Sunday afternoon at Fens Pools,

Paul Bloomer was born and raised in the heavily industrialised Black Country and did not consciously choose to become an artist. But at some point in his life the urge to create was so great that he had little choice in the matter.

Dudley artist Paul Bloomer discusses his large scale drawing ‘The Despondent Poet’, showing ‘a Black Country factory worker though he’s secretly a poet inside – without anyone knowing it.’

A wide selection of photos from Louise

This is Victoria Terrace in Dudley where my father Ezra lived at number 10.

my Dad’s Wolves season ticket from 1977-78!

Kit is an elderly care service user of Home Instead Dudley. Here she very kindly shares her beautifully handwritten story of her schooldays.

This was taken at the Guest Hospital around 1971

I was girl Friday at Dudley Herald

His 1989 charcoal drawing Children of the Furnace – a grotesque, epic pub panorama of binge-drinking and dope-smoking – ‘was the most accurate representation of my generation that I could draw. ‘

Karen sent us in these great photographs to our ‘Growing up in Dudley’ Facebook page.

Arthur Harris share the story of how he met the young Punks of Dudley in 1980.