Wednesbury

There is also a common of vast extent, called Wednesbury-old-field, in which are the vestiges of many hundreds of coal-pits, long in disuse, which the curious antiquarian would deem as long in sinking, as the mountain of cinders in rising.

An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769

Louise Larvin, assistant headteacher at Stuart Bathurst Catholic High school in Wednesbury in the West Midlands, said she had spent hundreds of wasted hours over four years planning for a new building.

Angry parents march on parliament to defend school building projects 2010

I do not think it to be Wednesbury unreasonable and I think it is unlikely that Art 3 is breached.

Ronald Biggs, and the real ale of English freedom 2009

As for the one-third (or more) of each programme spent pleading for texts, before eventually reciting the incisive thoughts of Maureen from Lowestoft, or Geoffrey from Wednesbury, surely I'm not the only one screaming at the TV: 'You're the news programme - you tell us!'?

Back to you in the Studio Fiona. Cluck Cluck. 2006

It was after the show at Wednesbury that one tall man, humping a suspicious parcel, when returning late amid a dense particular on his home way from the second house of the Boore and Burgess Christy

Finnegans Wake 2006

      All the same, it was a thrill to be re-elected, and my supporters turned out in strength throughout the constituency in Tivedale, Oldbury, Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich.

Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography Bothroyd, Betty 1988

` You sound as though you've been badly tricked recently, Miss Wednesbury ...

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

He thought that the Patent Shaft and Axletree Company, at Wednesbury, were at the present moment putting down an open-hearth furnace on the basic process.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various

Wednesbury Old Church eighty years ago used to tell the story of the vicar of Wednesbury, who one very sultry afternoon retired into the vestry, which was under the western tower, to don his black gown while a hymn was being sung by the expectant congregation.

The Parish Clerk 1892

To this day old Wednesbury natives say "hapern" for apron, and "sues" for shoes.

The Parish Clerk 1892