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SIMON BRIERCLIFFE

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Wolverhampton

After Carribee Island: the eve of destruction

7 Jul 2018
This post follows some preceding ones on the continuing history of the area once known as Carribee Island in Wolverhampton. This area, designated a slum, was pulled down in the…
Irish…

After Carribee Island: the Great War

12 Apr 2018
This post follows on from these two about the afterlife of Carribee Island, for forty years the assumed - and stigmatised - home of Wolverhampton's Irish population in the nineteenth…
Black Country…

After Carribee Island: the persistent Irish quarter?

14 Jan 201821 Mar 2018
My PhD research on the Stafford Street area of Wolverhampton finishes, pretty much, in 1877: the date that Parliament approved the Wolverhampton Improvement Scheme which led to the demolition of…
History…

Walkies

21 Mar 201628 May 2018
Just a quick one to say a massive thank you to everyone that came out on a bright - but chilly - Saturday to have a walk around one of the…
Housing…

The Other immigrants of Carribee Island: Wolverhampton’s Jewish community 1

1 Feb 20161 Feb 2016
My PhD research focuses on a small section of Wolverhampton town centre in the nineteenth century that was well-known - perhaps notorious, even - for it's substantial Irish immigrant population.…

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