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CHURCHES OF THE BLACK COUNTRY
ISBN 978 1906663049
| Tim Bridges
Tim Bridges has been very helpful to St John's Church Preservation Group.
As a renowned expert on churches and church architecture he provided invaluable advice for the application to English Heritage for listed status.
| Features most if not all of the Anglican Churches in the Black Country.
St John's Church is featured along with two photographs on page 49
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BLACK COUNTRY MEMORIES
ISBN 10: 1 85858 266 0 ISBN 13: 978 185858 266 5
| Dr Carl Chinn
Dr Chinn is patron of St John's Church Preservation Group
| Chapter 1 page 1
The Tipton Slasher
For many years Dr Chinn believed he was a great great great nephew of William Perry the Tipton Slasher but sadly on closer research this turned out not to be the case.
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A POCKETFUL OF MEMORIES
ST JOHN'S CHURCH
| Greg Stokes
Greg is Kates Hill born and bred and until recently still lived near to St John's Church.
He promotes his own and other author's writing through his organisation 'Kates Hill Press' and is also a regular on the Poetry and Storytelling circuit.
http://www.kateshillpress.co.uk/
| Work in progress publication due 2010/2011
All proceeds will go to
St John's Church Preservation Group
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TALES FROM A CHURCHYARD, ST JOHN'S, KATES HILL, DUDLEY
VOLUME 1
| BY CHRIS SMITH
Chris Smith, editor (Village Voice), historian, author, PR consultant, publisher, speaker
village voice website
| Launched 6.2.10
Reviewed in Black Country Bugle
Black Countryman Magazine
Birmingham Society for Genealogy and Herald magazine
Check out reader reviews on facebook site Save St John's Church, Kates Hill, Dudley
| Launched to rave reviews
Available from
- St John's Church Preservation Group Drop In Centre, St John's Road, Kates Hill, Dudley, DY2 7JT open Monday to Friday 9.30am to 4.30pm
Call in to purchase at £7.50 or send chq £8.99 for mail order
Also from:
Dudley Archive
Black Country Bugle shop
Quality Hotel, Dudley reception
SJC Preservation Group stall on Dudley Market on Saturdays
Tiwana's in High View Street, Kates Hill, open 7 days
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| Michael Taylor
http://www.michaeltaylorauthor.com/index1.html
Michael Taylor grew up in Kates Hill, Dudley and attended St John's Church. He was a leader in St John's Church Youth Club
He has featured St John's Church in seven of his nine novels. Each of them provide well researched social history as well as wonderful romantic story telling.
Michael is a founder member of St John's Church Preservation Group (2007).
| The Romantic Novelists'
Association
Research by 'The Sunday Mercury' in 1998 revealed that out of
700 members of the Romantic Novelists' Association only 20 were men and, of
those, Michael Taylor was the only one who did not use a female pseudonym.
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THE TIPTON SLASHER
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Perry Beauchamp
| Perry
Beauchamp has been researching the Tipton Slasher for nearly 20 years.
His enforced retirement due to Parkinsons Disease prompted him to
finally sit down and 'write the book'.
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BLACK COUNTRY ANECDOTES AND JOKES
(not yet published) | Professor David Hughes | Work in progress publication due 2010/2011 | |
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