“That’s me in the middle showing me pants”

Melvyn Dodd helped run a voluntary youth group called The Woodcraft Folk.

Pictures of the Zoo from the 1960’s.

A great selection of 1980s images from Karen Thomas.

Jan sent us a lovely selection of family photos.

Dudley Town Football Club through the decades.

Darren ‘Rat’ Radburn kindly shared these amazing photos taken in the early eighties of him and his punk friends hanging out in the pubs, bars and JB’s.

Chris found some slides to scan from his family visit to the zoo in the sixties.

Arthur Harris shares his memories

See more pictures of Anthony’s experience of being a first generation Mod in Dudley.

Levene Brown got in touch to talk about her experience of being a ‘Girl Friday’ in the seventies for the Dudley Herald newspaper. See the video here….

We are looking for creative outputs of these stories. Do you have an idea that can engage Dudley communities and get people excited? If so we have 4 x micro-commissions of £500 each.

Nick Hedges photography showcases the industrial heritage at the heart of the Black Country.

Brilliant four-part TV series for BBC called Archie Hill Comes Home.

John Price considers the life and work. of Black Country writer Archie Hill.

Over a period of 43 years, the likes of Radiohead, The Stone Roses, U2, Blur, The Charlatans and Judas Priest all performed on the legendary stage there before they cracked the big time. “We turned down Queen though because they wanted an extra £50,” says Sam Jukes, the club's owner.

Graduate Records was an independent label, which started off as an extension of David and Susan Virr's record shop business based at 1 Union Street, Dudley.

Back in 2015 to celebrate the launch of the Dudley JB’s book, the author Geoff Tristram was after stories and memories To include in the publication, so being an illustrator Ash submitted his in the form of a comic strip.

Meet foundry man Bob Wright, also my dad, as he breaks from his taciturn humdrum and through just two evocative photographs he recollects with vivid description yet melancholy anecdote as being a skilled Black Country foundry man.

In February we started the month with the keys to our new Dudley High Street space in our hands. We had set about a plan to get the space, an ex insurance branch, cleaned up, spruced up and freshly painted. We’d invited our collective members of like-minded ‘doers’ to join us in the plans for the space and help us shape its use.