West Bromwich Albion

West Bromwich Albion
Author: Tony Matthews
Publisher: DB
Total Pages: 630
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Soccer teams
ISBN: 9781780910291

Written by well-known football author Tony Matthews, this book provides an official record of West Bromwich Albion Football Club since their formation in 1883.

The Legends of West Bromwich Albion

The Legends of West Bromwich Albion
Author: Tony Matthews
Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2010-09-01
Genre: Soccer players
ISBN: 9781859837993

This title boasts a selection of previously unpublished photographs, which makes it a must for all ardent supporters of West Bromwich Albion, old or young.

Sons of Albion

Sons of Albion
Author: Big Jon and Snarka Freethy
Publisher: Trafford on Demand Pub
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781425188559

"From the Clubhouse in the early Eighties, morphing into Section 5 in the heyday of football violence, West Bromwich Albion's hooligan element has a rightful place in the history of terrace culture. Stemming from a multi-racial region, the mix of black, white and Asian lads battled, home and away, for more than three decades. What started in the Seventies as small mobs clashing at Cardiff, Leeds and Forest, led to the organised, fashion-conscious masses taking centre stage at the Hawthorns in the Eighties before another wave came through in the Nineties. The book charts the exploits of three main faces who helped the firm earn its reputation as well contributions from other well known names that have played a crucial part over the years. Enjoying intense rivalries with neighbours Wolves and Villa, numbers swelled as hooliganism peaked. Many also followed England around the world which led to one lad's escapades hitting the headlines in Malaysia while others found themselves detained in Japan. Now the scene has faded and banning orders prevail, the lads look back over an era that hooked thousands up and down the country and give honest accounts of their time with a potentially underrated but respected firm.

The Three Degrees

The Three Degrees
Author: Paul Rees
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-07-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472106911

When Cyrille Regis became one of the first black players to be selected for the full England team, he was sent a package in the mail. Inside it was a silver bullet and a note that read: ‘You’ll get one of these through your knees if you step on our Wembley turf.’ In the 1978/79 football season Regis' club West Bromwich Albion, an unglamorous and little publicised club from the West Midlands, became the first British football team to field three black players: Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendon Batson. They did so against the backdrop of the most divisive and poisonous racial tension in the UK’s history – a time when the National Front movement was at its most virulent. This book will tell the story of a defining and groundbreaking chapter in the history of British football and the country as a whole. The story is one about sport but also as much one about social change.

West Bromwich Memories

West Bromwich Memories
Author: Terry Price
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1999-12-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780750946049

From a few Anglo-Saxon hamlets set in a mostly agricultural landscape, to the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, West Bromwich gradually developed into one of the most successful and prosperous towns in the Black Country. The resultant vast and diverse array of privately owned shops, together with innumerable and wide-ranging leisure activities evoke fond memories of a bygone age in present-day residents. Moments in the life of West Bromwich-born actress Madeleine Carroll are also recalled in a photographic tribute to her film and hitherto little-known humanitarian work. Relive those golden memories in this second selection of old West Bromwich photographs compiled by local author Terry Price, who takes another nostalgic look at shops, street scenes, schooldays and social activities in all parts of the borough during the last century. Almost 400 photographs, the majority coming from private unpublished collections, combined with the author's informative captions are sure to delight long-established residents and newcomers alike.

West Bromwich Yesterdays

West Bromwich Yesterdays
Author: Terry Price
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2011-11-01
Genre: West Bromwich (England)
ISBN: 9780752469980

Once known as ‘the Chicago of the Midlands’, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries West Bromwich was a renowned industrial town of a thousand trades without equal. Its bustling High Street also offered a range of goods and services which were unsurpassed anywhere in the Black Country, a reputation which can still evoke a sense of passion and pride among local residents when remembering ‘the good old days’. Many townspeople still eagerly recall those long summer days and evening spent attending the many and varied events held in the extremely popular Dartmouth Park, as well as a weekly visit to any one of the eleven cinemas which operated within the town centre and outer suburbs. Rekindle those lost memories once again by joining West Bromwich-born author and local historian Terry Price for another nostalgic walk down memory lane in this, his third collection of almost 400 old photographs depicting people, scenes and events in all parts of the borough over the last 100 years.

Some Records of Smethwick

Some Records of Smethwick
Author: Frederick William Hackwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1896
Genre: Smethwick (England)
ISBN: 9781858581835

First published in 1896 in a limited edition of 80 copies only, Hackwood's Smethwick is much sought after by book collectors and historians. Alan Vernon of A&B Books, Smethwick has added an introduction to explain the background of the book. This edition is limited to 750 numbered copies.