Walsall An Illustrated History

Richly illustrated with more than ninety photographs, both archive and modern, this is a comprehensive history of Walsall, 'the town of 100 trades'. All aspects of the town's history are here, from law and order and politics (where the tactics traditionally included riots, corruption, bomb making and the burning of effigies - one prospective parliamentary candidate even promised that, if returned, he would 'marry one of the electors' daughters') to transport, education and health and the history of the Saddlers football club. Of course, no book on the town would be complete without 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.