Richly illustrated with more than 90 photographs, this is a comprehensive history of Walsall, "the town of 100 trades." All aspects of the town's history are here, from law and order and politics--where the tactics traditionally included riots, corruption, bomb making, and the burning of effigies, with one prospective parliamentary candidate even promising that, if returned, he would marry one of the electors' daughters--to transport, education, health, and the history of the Saddlers football club. Of course, no book on the town would be complete without the histories of those industries...