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DUDLEY (United Kingdom), Feb 1 — Edward Gray sweet factory in central England evokes a bygone age where brass cauldrons steam with molten sugar and workers wrestle with huge chunks of gooey treacle, but its handmade produce now enjoys a global demand. The company — also known as “Teddy...
Mar 13, 2021 Chocoholics can get their hands on a metre high Easter egg which is being raffled off to support one of the region’s oldest charities. Subscribe to our daily newsletter! Sign Up Fundraising co-ordinator Sarah Dovey with the giant Easter egg being raffled to raise cash for the Beacon Centre in Sedgley The egg is one of three prizes up for grabs in the Beacon Centre for the Blind’s Easter raffle. Entrants are also in with a chance of winning a confectionary hamper – donated by the Black Country sweet shop Teddy Grays – and a £20 fruit and vegetable Easter hamper donated by...
A NEW book offers a literary history of the smells and childhood memories that belong to the Black Country. Smell, Memory, and Literature in the Black Country, by University of Wolverhampton academics Sebastian Groes and R. M. Francis, explores the relationship between distinct smells from the region and emotional childhood memories. Prefaced by Will Self and drawing on psychology, neuroscience, memory studies, literary studies and philosophy, the book contains many creative writing pieces by writers including Anthony Cartwright, Narinder Dhami, Stourbridge author Kerry Hadley-Pryce and...