Bilston Online - famous people

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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.
ST. LEONARD - Patron Saint of Bilston!
HUGH WA LTERS School Master and Author (A.K.A. HUGH WALTERS) lived all his life in Bilston.
JA MES FLEET (born 1954) is a British actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
STAN CROWTHER - footballer born 1935
LORD BILSTON - Dennis Turner
ALBERT 'JIM BIDDULPH, BBC reporter, b 1930 - d 2008
WALTER S. BRADLEY of Beldray information about the man and the company on BCMC website
Bert Williams Footballer. Local man after whom Bilston's new Leisure Centre is named.