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Description: | The pipe itself is of wood, and uniquely has a silver chain and band attached to it. The chain was attached by Billy after he temporarily lost the bowl of the pipe when knocking out tobacco during a wartime blackout. He said that he would see to it that it didn't happen again. The case was made for the pipe by friends of Billy from the British Oak pub on Lichfield Street. They displayed the pipe in his favourite corner of the pub after his death.
Billy Meikle's pipe in small glass case. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Smoking | Temporal: | c.1858 - 1943 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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