Walsall: An Illustrated History

Illustrated with more than ninety photographs, both archive and modern, this comprehensive history of Walsall presents various aspects of the town’s history, from law and order and politics to transport, education and health and the history of the Saddlers football club. It includes the histories of those industries which have made the region famous, including ironwork, leatherwork, lorinery, buckle making and brewing, and mining for ironstone, limestone, dolerite and coal, and stories of well-known residents of the past.