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110:(18 April 1851 – 4 December 1926) was a teacher, antiquarian, journalist, and prolific non-fiction writer who produced more than 30 books. He was born in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England and served that town as a justice of the peace, historian, and councillor. He wrote for the
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Comberford Lodge, Bridge Street, Wednesbury, until a fire at a nearby
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for twenty years and for many other journals. Two of his pseudonym's were "Old Woden" and "Muz".
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He was a player himself but lost interest in the game after it became professional.
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Wednesbury Workshops; or, Some Account of the Industries of a Black Country Town
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The Good Old Times. The Romance of Humble Life in England
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