Book description
A Grim Almanac of the Black Country is a day-by-day catalogue of
366 ghastly tales from around the area. Full of dreadful deeds,
strange disappearances and a multitude of murders, this almanac
explores the darker side of the Black Country's past. Here are stories
of tragedy, torment and the truly unfortunate with diverse tales of
mining disasters, freak weather, bizarre deaths and terrible
accidents, including the gunpowder explosion at a factory in tipton
which claimed nineteen lives in 1922. Also featured is the corpse in
West Bromwich that was twice wrongly identified in 1929, the collapse
of a concert hall roof in Walsall in 1921, and the two labourers
buried in molten glass near Stourbridge in 1893. All these, plus tales
of fires, catastrophes, suicides, thefts and executions, are here.
Generously illustrated, this chronicle is an entertaining and readable
record of the Black Country's grim past. Read on... if you dare!
