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Famous People Connected With Bilston
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SIR HENRY NEWBOLT a famous victorian
poet who was knighted for his services to poetry during the first world
war
DON POWELL drummer with SLADE who was a
founder member of The Vendors who went on to become The N.Betweens then
Ambrose Slade onto Slade --is still drumming with SLADE 2 --he lived at
Stowlawn and attended Etheridge school in the late 50s /early 60s
DAVID DAKER TV actor of BOON fame was
a Bilston lad
JOHN (Iron Mad ) WILKINSON an 18th
century ironmaster built the worlds first blast furnace at Bilston and
was deeply involved amongst many other things with Abraham Darby
in building the words first Iron Bridge in Shropshire
DOCTOR SLIM who had a practice in
Bradley Bilston was the brother of Field Marshall Viscount Slim one of
our great second world war soldiers and governer general of Australia
etc.
EMMA CUNNIFFE shakesperian and well
known tv actress (the lakes / Poirot/ Cracker /Plain Jane /Great
expectations / clash of the santas etc. --both of her parents grew up
in Bilston --she is also distantly related to Francis Barber
another Wolverhampton born stage / film and tv actress
Hugh Walters School Master and Author lived all his life in Bilston.
