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Walsall Worthies

The Local Heritage series, exploring local history around Walsall Metropolitan Borough, is compiled by Stuart Williams of Walsall Local History Centre and published monthly in the Walsall Chronicle. Click on the links below to meet some of Walsall's most notable characters:

Captain Alf Parker - Veteran and Inspiration

Revd. John Baylie - A Founder of the Bloxwich National School

John Henry Carless, V.C. - a Walsall hero of the Great War

From Red Books to the Red Planet - W. Henry Robinson

Joseph Tonks of Willenhall - the Poor Man's Doctor

Pat Collins - The Bloxwich Showman

W. H. Duignan - a Walsall Irishman at the Heart of the Town

Sister Dora - Victorian Walsall's Nursing Pioneer