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Chris Upton

Chris Upton: Drama in the skies above Shropshire
Economic Development
I have dim and distant memories of the Wolverhampton Air Show.
The diaries of Clara Milburn and life in the West Midlands during the war
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton tells the tale of a very ordinary woman and her extraordinary account of daily life during World War II.
Chris Upton: No-one really knows what's happening in the markets
Economic Development
It’s impossible these days to watch the news without a little line of numbers chugging past at the bottom of the screen.
Housing the history of Molineux House in Wolverhampton
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton recounts the ups and downs of a fine Georgian mansion which fell into disprepair but found a new lease of life.
Selly Oak Hospital - a beacon of hope in Birmingham
Retail & Consumer
As 139 years of history at Selly Oak Hospital draws to an end, Chris Upton looks at how the facility grew out of a workhouse.
Chris Upton: I try to pay a bill – I meet my Waterloo
Economic Development
A crowd can gather so quickly in the middle of Birmingham.
A rotten election episode in Stafford borough
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines one of the grubbiest stains on British parliamentary democracy.
Chris Upton: Life – but not as I know it
Economic Development
There’s a new apartment block on the corner of Serpentine Road and High Street in Harborne.
Heavy punishment's 200 years ago
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines the cruel punishment meted out to debtors 200 years ago.
Chris Upton: Why the grass is sometimes greener...
Economic Development
One of the advantages of being a journalist is that you are automatically excluded from consumer research.
Churches galore in Evesham
Retail & Consumer
There was no shortage of religious fervour – nor indeed churches – in Evesham, writes Chris Upton.
Chris Upton: Darling daffs proper poetic
Economic Development
I’m pretty certain that when William Wordsworth came upon a crowd of daffodils, fluttering and dancing in the breeze, he was not driving into Wolverhampton.
The early stone of Birmingham Town Hall
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines the charming story of Messrs Till and Sons – a trueVictorian ‘rock band’.
Chris Upton: Don’t let ‘em make up your mind for you
Economic Development
On Thursday Messrs Brown, Cameron and Clegg ride into Birmingham for the third and final prime ministerial debate.
Chris Upton: Gone but not forgotten...
Economic Development
Fifty years ago (almost to the day) Eddie Cochran sang of the Three Steps to Heaven.
Arbury Hall is a hidden gem in Nuneaton
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton reveals the secrets within the walls of one of the Midlands’ finest stately homes
The creation of a people's park at Warley Woods
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines how a fine country estate became an Edwardian ‘people’s park’.
Chris Upton: Summertime and living’s sneezy – but I will survive
Economic Development
With a little judicious planning of vacations, I’ve worked out that I can make my hay fever last for at least eight months of the year.
How Humphry Repton helped to landscape Birmingham
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton examines the work of the great Georgian landscape designer Humphry Repton.
Chris Upton: Birmingham a Mecca of Odeon silver screens
Economic Development
To keep yourself on your toes, they say, you should always be trying something new.
The 'delectable folly' that is Brewood's Speedwell Castle
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton attempts to deconstruct the mystery of Speedwell Castle in Staffordshire.
Chris Upton: Half cut but quite happy...
Economic Development
Last week the Government announced it intended cuts to university budgets.
Birmingham's school of design
Retail & Consumer
Chris Upton traces the architectural development of the institutions in which we teach our children.
Chris Upton: Feeling a bit insecure? I'm not surprised
Economic Development
There used to be a place where all pen-tops went. It was a kind of mysterious biro heaven, beyond human understanding.