The Latest Museum Arrivals – Including a Local Colliery Wagon Plate

This Cannock & Rugeley Colliery wagion plate is not the most common item ever seen in the museum – in fact, no-one we have asked has ever seen one!  This obviously makes it a bit special.  Unfortunately, it has a crack (repaired) through the right-hand bolt hole – I wonder how that happened?!

This next item, a book for the library, has come along at a good time – as we have recently seen the return of the horse-drawn parcels van.

It should be pointed out that the horses in this book used to pull carts, vans, etc. unlike the Chasewater Railway Museum version, which seems to prefer to ride in them!

The final item was a raffle prize at the recent Gerald Reece talk about Brownhills, and shows Brownhills High Street in the early 1900s, won by one of the museum staff.  If you’ve seen the photo on Brownhills Bob’s site, the bald headed bloke on the back row, right-hand side!

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