ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS… Story references and further reading ‘Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?’ Wikipedia: Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%3F Brian Haughton – ‘Bella in the Wych Elm: a Midlands Murder Mystery’ http://brian-haughton.com/articles/bella_in_the_wych-elm/ Welcome to Stourbridge. Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? The story that still haunts the area, seventy years on http://www.stourbridge.com/bella-wych-elm.htm ‘Is this Bella in the Wych Elm? Unravelling the mystery of the skull found in a tree trunk.’ Allison Vale, The Independent 22 March 2013 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/is-this-the-bella-in-the-wych-elm- unravelling-the-mystery-of-the-skull-found-in-a-tree-trunk-8546497.html Ghost written. The Guardian 14 June 2003. Composer Simon Holt writes about his opera Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/jun/14/classicalmusicandopera.artsfeatures Wild Edric at the Stiperstones Edric the Wild - Another wild Shropshire man. http://www.discovershropshire.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/theme:20061002151 230 Eadric the Wild https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadric_the_Wild Edric and the Stiperstones http://www.shropshiregallery.co.uk/legends/wildedric.html ‘Tales of Wild Edric’ by Richard 'Mogsy' Walker http://www.whitedragon.org.uk/articles/edric.htm Wild Edric: a narrative poem by Nigel Sustins Marchlands Books 2008. isbn 13 - 978-0955858901 Edric the Wild: Sons of Mercia volume 3 (novel) by Jayden Woods CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2012. isbn 13 - 978-1475231250 Photo Jigsaw of Wild Edric and Elf Maidens. Mary Evans at Media Storehouse Fiddler Foley on the Fiddle: Industrial Espionage in the Industrial Revolution General Richard Foley on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Foley_(ironmaster) The Project Gutenberg EBook of the Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical, by Frank H. Stauffer p.138 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41762/41762-h/41762-h.htm ‘How one family of Midland manufacturers profited from the English Civil War’ By Chris Upton, Birmingham Post, Feb 25 2011 http://www.birminghampost.net/life-leisure-birmingham- guide/postfeatures/2011/02/25/the-profits-of-civil-war-65233- 28214119/2/ there is a longer version of this article at http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+profits+of+civil+war%3B+The+Midland s+armed+soldiers+of+the+English...-a0249835622 The Seventeenth Century Foleys: Iron, Wealth and Vision 1580 - 1716 by Roy Peacock. The Black Country Society Other references and Information on Fiddler Foley The Foley Family Volume One By Tony Freer Minshull History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales By Charles Wilkin, p.328 The Literary Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts By Lovell Augustus Reeve, John Mounteney Jephson, Henry Christmas, Shirley Brooks, George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1st Earl of Munster), p. 804 NB. available as a free ebook from Google books http://www.kinveronline.co.uk/tag/puddler/ The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder By Errol Trzebinski, p. 36 General Information on Nailmaking http://www.blackcountrymuse.com/nailmaking.htm The Black Country Nail Trade by Arthur Willets. referenced at http://www.sedgleymanor.com/trades/nailmakers2.html Two Colourful Worlds Collide: the Mander brothers and the Indian Princesses We are grateful to staff at Wightwick Manor for their help with the research for this story. The Mander family on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mander_family Wightwick Manor http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wightwick-manor/ Manchester Despatch, Feb 27 1914 Daily Express, Feb 27 1914 Standard, Feb 27 1914 Two countries. Two families. Two marriages - a script by Jason Woodward commissioned by Wightwick Manor in conjunction with Surdhwani South Asian Arts as part of the Whose Story? project The Ramayana or Rama’s Journey Ramayana on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana Complete translation online (long!) http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ Summary of story online http://www.mythome.org/RamaSummary.html There are many many retellings of the Ramayana in English, one readily available on Amazon is The Ramayana: a modern retelling of the Great Indian Epic By Ramesh Menon, North Point Press, New York, 2003 The Legend of St Brade – a love story St Brade and Other Legends in Oldbury: the town of the Four Moons by Dave Reeves, The Moving Finger, 1994 Picturesque Oldbury Past & Present by Henry McKean. Midland Printing Co 1900 Ye Legend of St. Brade: a story of the crusades, ballad by Arthur W. Fox Ooz going to Dudley Zoo? Cavernous Tales of Polar Explorers ‘Exploring Dudley Tunnel and Limestone Mines in the 1970s’ - Black Country Bugle http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Exploring-Dudley-Tunnel-and-Limestone-Mines- in-the-1970s-15052013.htm Information, photos and videos of Dudley Zoo http://chantelleroy27.blogspot.co.uk/2012_09_01_archive.html Dudley Zoo building designs http://www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/around-dzg/tectons ‘Dudley Zoo: Save the Tectons’ by Sophie Campbell. Daily Telegraph 13.11.2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/sophie-campbell/6554794/Dudley-Zoo- Save-the-Tectons-architecture.html ‘Memories of visiting Dudley Zoo’ http://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=14199 Life at the Zoo in the 1950s The Zoo Keeper by DHS Risdon. Ward Lock Educational Co Ltd, 1960 The Mermaid of Blake Mere http://www.peakmermaid.co.uk/page/legend http://www.imaginingstaffordshire.org.uk/mystery/mys2.htm http://mondrem.net/myths/Blake_Mere_Mermaid.html http://ludchurchmyblog.wordpress.com/places-of-other-local-interest/the-mermaid-of- blakemere/ (includes extracts from a poem about the maiden) ‘Fancy Wild Swimming?’ http://wildswim.com/mermaids-pool-nr-leek The Fighting Cock Lectern of St Bartholemew's Church, Wednesbury St Bartholomew’s http://www.stbartswednesbury.com/ http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/STS/Wednesbury/StBartholomew/ http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/articles/Wednesbury/Churches.htm http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Eight-hundred-years-of-St-Barts-Wednesbury- 15062011.htm History of Wednesbury Church told in Victorian Verse - Black Country Bugle 18/1/2007 http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/HISTORY-OF-WEDNESBURY-CHURCH-brTOLD-IN- VICTORIAN-VERSE-2.htm History and context of cock-fighting Wikipedia on cock-fighting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockfight ‘Once popular and socially acceptable: cock-fighting’ By Ed Crews, article on the historical context of the sport published on the Colonial Williamsburg website which includes remarks on the European and North American history of the pastime. http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn08/rooster.cfm http://thehistoryofwednesbury.wordpress.com/tag/cock-fighting/ England’s Revelry: A history of popular sports and pastimes, 1660-1830 By Emma Griffin, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005, p.151 -154 The Cradley Heath Women Chainmakers’ Strike http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc/explorefurther/images/cradleyheath/ http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=22388 http://www.cradleylinks.co.uk/1910strike.htm also see http://www.chrisgeorgecards.com/product/cradley-heath-women-chain-makers-strike-1910 The White Slaves of England by Robert Harborough Sherard, publisher James Bowden, London 1897 Come with me for a walk through Bilston Market For more information on characters of old Bilston see Freeman's Black Country Folk by John Freeman. Black Country Society, 1970 A pdf copy of this booklet is available to download from our website: www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk .