February 1st – High above the shop-fronts in Stafford Street, Walsall, on the shop next to The Prince Blucher pub, there’s a blue plaque. I first noticed it about 4 years ago and it has intrigued me to this day. The text is so small and placement so obscure that I never managed to read it properly, which is a shame. I see from my photo that it commemorates Joseph Deakin, a name I’d not heard before. It seems this one time anarchist, political activist and would-be terrorist of sorts has a tale to tell all of his own. And I never realised. What guide to the town breathes the name? Who mentions this clearly very principled, yet misguided man? Who’d have thought so much history could be found in such an obscure place?
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