Follow Graham, who moved from the Black Country to Wales, with musings from his barn.
The great of the good and compassion and local legend Frank Foley.
Ada Isabel Jones - the Black Country Grannie who knows best in the podcast episode.....
Proximity and closeness are not necessarily the same when it comes to our water highways.
It may be too wet and too cosy - time to go Above and Beyond
Layer of layer of soft porous stone........ the foundations of the Black Country.
Graham muses continue with a look back at look back at Stourbridge Glass may not be so 'dead' after all...
So do you become 'you' become accident or design? Graham discusses.....
The distinctive Black Country identity and its flag define us, but why does it matter? Perhaps our friends 'across the pond' can offer a clue.
It can get very dark indeed in the Welsh borders. But there are those who use it to good effect.
Words, words and more words. And the Master of Words himself once walked amongst us in the Black Country.
The River Stour has flowed through the Black Country for thousands of years and was its backbone in the early days of industrialisation. But does its name hold Celtic origins?
Ley lines and other unexplained 'earth mysteries' - might we all be bound in some way by forces beyond our current understanding?
The Black Country language, culture, character and even its place names owe much to events surrounding the arrival of a man with Borders connections who came second in 1066.
Fame is a transitory and fickle mistress; sometimes the names live on, others simply drop off the radar altogether. But how has this changed with the advent of the computer age and what might now be the future for other names from the past?
The smokestacks and grime may have largely disappeared from the Dark Region, but is the grass really any greener on the other side?
A glance at some fictional crime-fighters with connections to the Black Country.
Subtitled 'the musings of a Black Country ex-pat now domiciled on the Welsh border' Tales From The Barn started life in 2016 following writer and broadcaster Graham Fisher moving with his family to the land of Celtic legend. The 'Barn' referred to is not a figment of poetic licence but does actually exist and lies in the lee of the Black Mountains. The general theme of the tales is observations on aspects of Graham’s former homeland from the perspective of his present one and often features some element of direct contrast or comparison between the two. The tales also go some way in defining both the Black Country and the borderlands as to what make its respective peoples so distinctive.
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