Homer Hill Park
The Friends of Homer Hill Park in Cradley are celebrating after securing a £10,000 grant for a new children's playground from the Big Lottery Fund's Awards for All programme which aims to enable others to make real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need.
The Friends of Homer Hill is a group of local residents dedicated to improving the facilities and usage of Homer Hill Park, Cradley's largest park. Their activities include fund-raising, organising events, and working with Dudley Council.
Children from local schools and nurseries will descend on the park on Saturday, 24 September 2011 at 10am for a sponsored Walkathon. The Walkathon will be in aid of Help for Heroes and the park itself, which is badly in need of paths to allow access year round to all of its areas for park visitors, including those less able, and wheel chair and pushchair users.
Sponsor Forms can be downloaded here (click on image right).
Read more about Homer Hill Park.
Cradley's Homer Hill Blues
Cradley's Homer Hill Park is the beneficiary of a new music venture by local Labour Councillor Richard Body. Richard has become a recording artist to raise money for improvements to the Park, formerly known as "the Rec." (Recreation Ground).
Richard sings and plays acoustic guitar. With help from guitar teacher Chris Hingley on lead guitar, he has recorded a CD of three Johnny Cash classics: Walk the Line, Folsom Prison and Cocaine Blues.
The CDs are for sale at £2 each. All proceeds from the sales are going towards improvements to Cradley's Homer Hill Park and Wollescote Community Centre. Copies are available from Cradley Labour Club, Windmill Market, Wynall Lane General Stores and the Beechtree Miners and Welfare Social Club, Wollescote.
Cradley Heritage Project - The Movie
The Cradley Then & Now 3xDVD set of 54 heritage films is now available. The film collection is broadly divided into; Cradley History & People, Work & Play and War & Peace. Featuring: Stories written, narrated and presented by local people with works by local artists and musicians.
The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant of £49,700 to Cradley Then & Now to record local Black Country history.
Through the Cradley Heritage Project the community is rediscovering Cradley's diverse past. Read more...
Cradley Women Chainmakers' Festival
On Saturday 18th September 2010 the Midlands TUC and Black Country Living Museum commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1910 strike of women chainmakers for a living wage.
The event recalled the fight of the Cradley Heath Women Chainmakers, who went on strike for ten weeks and were successful in winning the first ever minimum wage.
The event was hosted by and located at the Black Country Living Museum, Tipton Road, Dudley, West Midlands DY1 4SQ. Read more...
Cradley Map
Thanks to Google Earth™ and FotoTagger software we are able to bring you an aerial map of Cradley and the immediately surrounding district, with pointers naming the main areas, streets and buildings of the town.
We hope this will help you find your way around. If you do not see the place you are interested in, contact us and we will try to help.
Just click anywhere on the map image (right) for a full screen map. It may take a few seconds to load.
The Diary of Joseph Hingley 1911
This is old news. Joseph Hingley was born in Cradley in 1850 and emigrated to the United States in 1873 with two brothers, Noah and Simeon. In 1911, at age 61, Joseph left Portland, Oregon to visit his place of birth.
Joseph recorded his journey in a diary that his grandson has now transcribed and illustrated.
Cradley Links makes the Diary available to download and also has extracts from it to read here. Read more...
