THE BLOXIDGE TALLYGRAPH
The online news and local history magazine for Bloxwich - Edditid by a Bloxidge mon!
Late Summer Edditorial
Well, Summer finally did get going, if only in fits and starts, which was fortunate for Bloxwich Carnival and this month's Council- organised Bloxwich Fun Day. Sadly the weather was unkind to Lower Farm Community Association who had to abandon their own Fun Day on the estate due to the intermittent bad weather and the state of the ground.
They do say that the sun shines on the righteous, well that probably doesn't apply to me (even though I did go to the Sunshine School in my formative years!) but the sun has been shining on The Bloxidge Tallygraph!
We've seen a substantial increase in readership thanks to events like the Carnival and the Fun Day, and several useful pieces in the local 'paper' media which have enabled us to raise our profile locally. Many thanks to everyone who is taking the trouble to read these pages, and I hope you will also avail yourself of the interactive features like the Forums and the Fun & Games page which are unique to a publication of this kind.
The Tallygraph is also swinging more and more into "Community Mode" these days, with our own Community Page and various information linked from there. We do hope you will support this page especially if you are a community organisation in the Bloxwich area - feel free to get in touch if we can help publicise your work in these pages.
With an increase in our hosting capacity this month, new facilities have been afforded us by Freewebs (not free in this case, but very affordable!). This means we can now do a lot more than we have in the past year, as you will have noticed in the few short weeks since Bloxwich Carnival. We will continue to do more, so please keep on coming back to see what's new!
I hope any Bloxwich folk reading the Tallygraph will continue to find it intriguing, sometimes amusing, and always worthy of support. If you've enjoyed the content of The Tallygraph, please do let me know via the Guestbook - friendly feedback is always welcome! It is my aim in turn to support the town and community of Bloxwich and put it on the online map. Thanks for taking the time to drop by!
Sincerely,
Stuart Williams
Edditer, The Bloxidge Tallygraph
Email: the.edditer@thebloxidgetallygraph.com
Published by The Little Bloxwich Press, 30th August 2007.
Download the Original Tallygraph
To download a copy of the original single page 1874 Bloxidge Tallygraph (photocopied down to A4 from the original broadsheet size, jpeg 323kb), click on this link.
To download a copy of the later descendant of the Tallygraph - 'The Bloxwich Telegraph' (21 January 1886, reduced to A4, colour jpeg, 1mb) - click on this link.