Many of these marbles contain memorial inscriptions relating to the English residents (voluntary and involuntary) of Algiers from the time of John Tipton, British consul in 1580.
The gas field extends over Hancock, Henry, Hamilton, Tipton, Madison, Grant and Delaware counties.
Tipton St. John is particularly proud of its self-help ethos with the playing fields and village community hall both communally owned and run.
Thus, locks are a specialty at Wolverhampton and Willenhall, and keys at Wednesfield; horses' bits, harness-fittings and saddlery at Walsall and Bloxwich, anchors and cables at Tipton, glass at Smethwick, and nails and chains at Cradley.