Did you know...
Singer/song writer Joe Jackson, famous for the 1978 chart hit Is She Really Going Out With Him? was born in the West Midlands brewing town of Burton-on-Trent?
Well I never!
Friday, 9 May 2008
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Welcome to the West Midlands - the nation's firebox of creativity, diversity and invention
This is Spaghetti Gazetti
- Pete Millington
- Welcome to Spaghetti Gazetti - the Blog of the magazine about heritage, history, arts, community, social enterprise and culture across the West Midlands region. News on events, projects and people from Birmingham, Dudley, Coventry, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Solihull, Sandwell, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Herefordshire and Shropshire. Also selected articles from the Gazette series of local magazines of which I am editor, circulation 100,000 per month. Send me your news to: info@bignbostin.com
Visit my other heritage websites & online work:
The Gazette Series
Spaghetti Review of June 2008
We support The Blitz
Indonesian-English Education Partnership
We Sponsor Wordsley Wasps FC Match Programme and Raffle
Stourbridge and District League Under 9s Division One
Spaghetti News
The Stirrer
NEWS THAT MATTERS, CAMPAIGNS THAT COUNT
Arts & Culture
- Arts and Business
- Arts Central
- Arts Council - West Midlands
- Birmingham Art
- Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
- Craig Holmes - Birmingham photographer
- Disability Arts in Shropshire
- Geoff Tristram - artist, author, comedian
- Herefordshire Art Week
- Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
- Live and Local - performing arts in Warwickshire
- MAC at Cannon Hill Park
- New Art Gallery - Walsall
- Nostalgic Vintage Radio
- Popbang Colour - Ian Cook
- Steve Gerrard - diary of a photographer
- Sue Conway - Photographer
- The Collective
- Urban Fusion
- Woodworker's Guild (West Midlands)
Bostin Blogs
- 2nd City Stumbler
- A Worcestershire Flower Arrangers Garden
- About Brum
- Andy Pryke
- BINS: Birmingham It's Not Shit
- Birmingham Conservation Trust
- Birmingham Photographers
- Birmingham: AAH
- Brit Blog
- Brum Blog
- Brummie Blogs
- Castle Bromwich Parish Council
- Chamberlain Forum
- Charlotte Carey
- Creative Enterprise
- David Nikel
- David's Emporium
- Deirdre Alden
- Digitally Centred
- Iron Man Records - Blog
- Joanna Geary
- Keep Digbeth Vibrant
- Metroblogging Birmingham
- Mums Club - social enterprise peer support
- Pete Ashton - The Deplorable World
- Peter Miller - My World (Staffs)
- Smethwick Paranormal Investigations
- Stefan Lewandowski
- The Brum Project
- The Return of the Prodigal Paddy
- Tom Watson
- West Brom Blog
Castles & Monuments
Cultural Heritage Links
Dance, Theatre & Performance Arts
Environmental Links
Genealogy
Heritage Services
History & Social History
- BBC History website
- Canals 1750-1900
- Council for British Archaeology
- English Heritage
- History UK - research and education
- Home Front Friends
- North Staffordshire 1940s Remembered
- North Staffs Military Vehicle Trust
- Spartacus - History for schools
- The Forties Family
- The Historical Association
- The Victorian Society
- Why History Matters - National Trust
- Workhouses
Leisure & Recreation
Literature
- A.E.Housman
- Alton Douglas
- Barbara Cartland
- Brewin Books
- Clent Books of Bewdley
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- George Eliot
- Literary Heritage West Midlands
- Michelle Gannon
- P G Wodehouse Society
- Rosie Goodwin
- Rupert Brooke
- Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
- Shirley Thompson
- The Jerome K Jerome Society
- The Tolkien Society
- Tindal Street Press
- W.H. Auden
Local Action Networks and Groups
Local History Sites
- Astonbrook Through Aston Manor
- Birmingham & District Local History Association
- Birmingham Civic Society
- Birmingham Lives - The Carl Chinn Archive
- Black Country Society
- British Association of Local History
- Digital Handsworth
- Exploring the Potteries
- Five Ways to Monmouth
- Friends of Keyhill Cemetery
- Goosemoor Lane (Short Heath & Erdington)
- Handsworth History
- Harborne Hill School Memories
- Historic Birmingham
- History Publications
- Kingsbury History Society
- Ladywood Past and Present
- Local History Magazine
- Mac Joseph - local history author
- Midlands Historical Data
- Nuneaton Society
- Old Garages of Birmingham
- Perry Barr and Beyond
- Quinton Local History Society
- Rowley Regis Online
- Secret Shropshire
- Smethwick Local History
- Staffordshire Past Track
- The Victoria County History Project
- Virtual Brum
- Windows on Warwickshire
- Winson Green and Brookfields
- Wolverhampton History
- Wolverhampton History & Heritage Society
- Worcester People and Places
Music Links
- Alice Trueman
- Aston FM Radio online
- Birmingham Rocks
- Black Sabbath
- Boy George
- Brum Beat - bands of the 1960s
- Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)
- Dexys Midnight Runners
- Don Powell fan club - Germany
- Drowsy Maggie
- Duran Duran
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Father Teds
- Fola Music
- Ian Campbell - Brum Beat
- Iron Man Records
- Jibbering Records
- Judas Priest
- Led Zeppelin
- Moody Blues
- New Music Label
- Ocean Colour Scene
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Past Perfect - Great British dance bands
- Radio To Go - Robin Valk
- Reddingtons Rare Records
- Robbie Williams
- Rock Photo
- Shrewsbury Folk Festival
- Slade 40 Years
- Spencer Davis Group
- Steel Pulse
- Steve Gibbons
- Steve Winwood
- The Barfly
- The Beat
- The Destroyers
- The Elements
- The Music Network
- The Music Network - Feeder
- The Robin
- The Specials
- The Wonder Stuff
- Tommy Dempsey
- UB40
- Woodbine Street Recording Studio
Regionality
Science and Industry
- Birmingham Assay Office
- Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof House
- Birmingham Stories - Think Tank
- Burleigh - last working Victorian pottery
- Coors Visitor Centre & Brewing Museum - Burton
- Ironbridge Gorge Museum
- James Watt
- Made in Birmingham
- Midland Red Buses & Coaches
- Pottery Museums in Stoke
- Redhouse Glass Cone - Wordsley
- Ross-on-Wye Science Society
- Royal Worcester
- Snibston Discovery park
- Wedgwood Visitor Centre - Stoke
- Weston's Cider Factory - Herefordshire
- William Murdoch
- Worcester Astronomical Society
Talking History - Audio Tracks
- Bruffy's Antiquarian Footie Programmes
- Carl Chinn on St Patrick's Day
- Clare Short at Davitt Exhibition
- Danny Reddington & Reggie Kray
- Len Tasker - Coventry Enterprise Club
- Len Tasker Track 2
- Mr E.L.Osmend - King Edwards 5 Ways School
- Mr George Reeves - Malvern
- Mr George Reeves 2
- Mr Osmend 2
- Mr Osmend 3
- Mr Osmend 4
- West Bromwich Voices - Dancing
- West Bromwich Voices - Working Days
The Politics of Culture
Tourism & Travel
Towns, Cities, Counties & Local Authorities
- Birmingham City Council
- Coventry City Council
- Dudley Borough Council
- Henley in Arden
- Hereford City Council
- Herefordshire Council
- Kenilworth
- Leamington Spa
- Lichfield District Council
- Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council
- Sandwell Borough Council
- Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council
- Shropshire County Council
- Solihull Council
- Stafford Borough Council
- Staffordshire County Council
- Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
- Startford upon Avon District Council
- Stoke on Trent City Council
- Tamworth Borough Council
- Telford & Wrekin Council
- Walsall Council
- Warwick District Council
- Warwick Town Council
- Warwickshire County Council
- Wolverhampton City Council
- Worcestershire County Council
- Wyre Forest District Council
What's On Guides
- 1940s Events Online
- BBC Stoke & Staffs
- Birmingham Alive
- Birmingham City Council
- Creative Stoke
- I C Coventry
- Itchy Birmingham
- My Brum
- NEC Group
- Skiddle - Telford
- Skiddle.com - Coventry
- Stoke on Trent museums
- View Birmingham
- What's On Coventry & Warwickshire
- What's On In Brum?
- What's On Wolverhampton
- Wolverhampton City Council
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