Singularities of Bodfish
-a talk with slides-
A very ordinary English family, but as well as the usual ag labs it includes a village idiot, a prize fighter, a jailbird, a gold prospector, a multi-millionaire - not the mention the whaling captains and the eskimos!
My local/family history/general interest talks - click on a title for more details
Easy as ABC (illustrated)
Singularities of Bodfish (with slides)
How We Lived Then (with slides)
Beer, Bets and Bull-Baiting (illustrated)
Cavalier Dogs and Rounhead Rogues (illustrated)
The Theatre Royal Fire Tragedy (illustrated)
The History of Smethwick (with slides)
Mad Dogs and Marie Marten
Smethwick in the Second World War (illustrated)
The Mollett Family of Smethwick Grove (illustrated)
Early Years at Soho
Skulduggery at Soho
The following talks are of particular interest to Smethwick - please phone me if you would like to know more - my contact details are below
Blue Gates and Beyond (illustrated)
Strange Tales From Smethwick (illustrated)
The Landscape of Warley (with slides)
Bygone Bearwood
From the Bear to the Barleycorn
Made in Smethwick
Old Church to Londonderry
People of Smethwick
Round About Old Church
Smethwick in 1900
Smethwick New Village
Smethwick's Other Wars
The Lost Mansions of Cape Hill
Up and Down Spon Lane
Wanderings in Warley
Windmill Lane to Six Ways
please contact me to discuss and arrange a booking
email: m.bodfish@aston.ac.uk
phone: 0121 429 6551
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