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Welcome to the website for the VILLAGE VOICE series of community magazines. We hope that you enjoy browsing through the various sections and that you find something of interest in our pages. We are keen to have your comments - please use the form on our Contact page.

WELCOME

NEWS

We are proud to announce that the second book under the ARCOS imprint has been launched.

Entitled ‘Tales From A Graveyard’ it feature the stories of some of those commemorated at St John’s Church, Kates Hill, Dudley. These include ‘The Tipton Slasher’ plus leading educationalist Marion Richardson, a member of the ‘Dambusters’ squadron and brewery owner Julia Hanson. Readers can purchase the book at a specially discounted price - full details are in our ‘Books’ section.

The winners of our January competition who each win a family ticket to Cadbury World in Birmingham are

SIMONE GRIFFIN

from Amblecote and

BOB HUGHES

from Wombourne.

Congratulations to you both.

Watch out for further information about a brand new edition of

VILLAGE VOICE

coming soon - together with TWO new books due to be published shortly.

A selection of our editorial features both in the current issues and from previous issues are included...just navigate to the appropriate pages to see some of the information that we have included in our different editions over recent months .

Sedgley.....

Kingswinford....

Stourbridge....

Wombourne....

EDITORIAL

ADVERTISERS

We have a comprehensive index to our recent advertisers. If you do use their services please mention that you have seen their advertisement on VILLAGE VOICE. After all, without their support we could not afford to produce your favourite community magazine!

BRAINTEASERS

Over the last few months we have featured a series of BrainTeasers - and we thought that it would be fun to include some of the best on this site.

Try them for yourself...

LOCAL ROOTS

Currently under construction is a separate section specially for family historians including links to various on-line resources. More details soon.....

LINKS

We have also included a number of links to our favourite websites in a number of categories. If you would like yours added just contact us and we will include it in the appropriate section. Please note, however we do not include commercial sites.

VILLAGE

VOICE

is now

years old!

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We are always on the look-out for good photographs showing life around the region. If you have any old photos that we could borrow (or you could email a copy of to us) then please get in touch. We are particularly interested in any old buildings that have since been demolished and family groups from the 1920s and 1930s. Drop us a note if you can help.

Himley Church - one of the buildings in the area that has a long and interesting history.

DID YOU

KNOW?

Over the last five years over 180 editions of VILLAGE VOICE have been published. This represents some 360,000 copies distributed to homes and businesses in and around Dudley and South Staffordshire.

COMPETITION

In each issue of VILLAGE VOICE we have a special competition open to all readers.

Normally the prizes are family tickets to top entertainment attractions in the area - and entry to the competitions is FREE!

Check out the latest and enter on-line. Who knows you could be the next winner!