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A few years ago Castle Bromwich Youth & Community Partnership produced an audio heritage tour of Castle Bromwich. Bill Dargue and the North Arden Local History Society have kindly included some of the audio stops in a...

As the country gears up to vote in what has been termed the “Brexit Election”, we’ve been given some thought to the universal suffrage movement and the right to vote. For many groups of people the right to vote...

During the 1700s, there was no police force and it was victims and private individuals who had to initiate prosecutions. In the second half of the eighteenth century potential prosecutors banded together to form Societies for the Prosecution of Felons. This happened in Castle Bromwich. In 1834 fed up with their property and crops being stolen and their turnips "injured", wealthy land owners formed the Castle Bromwich Association for the Prosecution of Felons and started handing out rewards to people helping in the detection or apprehension of the culprits.