Such a shame, used to go there as a kid to have a walk around the museum and garden. also used to take my son for a cheap day out. What on earth have they done? Or not done. Have seen other enviromental transormations, which is not just letting weeds take over! Wild English flowers etc. Total mess again.

It’s great that you show what’s above our eye level as we tend to see what’s in front of use of us missing the magnificence of Old West Bromwich. Thank You 😊

I got my 2nd car from the Ford dealership that was sited where lidl is currently

Hi Phil, the large building at the beginning of your video used to be a gentleman’s club. My grandmother used to clean it. 1950s early 1960s. There were beautiful grounds and fountain. My mum grew up in Jesson street. Both my parents went to Beeches road school, and did some of thier “courting” in Dartmouth Park. Thank you for these videos, we are loving watching them, sadly my dad and grandparents are no longer with us. Looking forward to you’re next video xx

Hi can anyone remind me the Gala baths were on lombard street? I remember there being a gym there in the early 1990s but am a bit vague as to the actual whereabouts

This dude definitely knows his onions!

Phil the Wesley Chapel was once a YTS training building we used to get 27.50 a week 1984😊

Thankyou

Gradients landfill....they left their Names in the Borough...Bingo ...and The New Metropolitan County !

Enjoyed that one. A look back before Local Government followed the narrative.

I had a friend who lived in Charnwood Road(just off Larchwood Road)

Hi Phil enjoyed walking down what's left of Beeches Road I can see there's still some loverly old Buildings it would be nice to see a preservation order on the Church the House and School.and I remember a company called Bagnals I think they manufactured Nails all the best Paul

Imagine what West Brom will be like in say 20 years from now , dread to think

It's a shame we are losing our history, back in the day it was probably great

It's a shame we can't physically pick those houses up and relocate them to a street where they will be lived in as upmarket houses instead of turning them into flats. Why oh why pick houses for a conversion like that? 🤷‍♂️

Menzies was the school used in the film Clockwise starring John Cleese

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Yes this is another town wrecked by the woke council. I remember them laying all the new paving in and around the high street. The disruption was terrible and it cost millions. When it snowed the new paving was quite slippy and when it was wet and the sun shone on it, it dazzled you and you couldn't see where you were walking. The council are obsessed with knocking down old buildings and building new ones that often don't serve much or any purpose to the wider public. I think they should tidy up and make the most of the old buildings and save us all some money and perhaps a bit of history .I also think that street vendors should have there own corner where they plug into and pay for electricity instead of running those noisy generators with their fumes and clogging up the middle of the high street.

There seems to be a lot of Polish shops in carter's green and lower high street,I know a lot of Polish people have moved into the area so I suppose they are catering to their tastes,there used to be a chip shop next to the Westley church that my mom used to take us to,it was always packed but they used to be in competition with the posiden chip shop around the corner

Nice work phil

That big tower housed the flour. Those units on the left as you first go down the road, the ones with the open shutters, used to be where the maintenance blokes worked from. Firkins had their own shopfitters working from there. They also had their own mechanics for their vans and even their own petrol pumps. As you go past those open units on the left, as soon as you go past them turn left and all of firkins factory was on the right all the way down to where the dispatch dept was. That little road you went down towards the end of your film (between the old Express & star building and Panesar) is one of the last real cobble stones left in West Bromwich and that lead down to the old tip I worked at firkins for 20 years and it was a great company to work for. Used to start at 5am and the place was busy atvthatbtimevofvtgevmorning We used to supply all the shops and there must of been close on 60 shops to supply It was really really busy Great video Phil

Karma is hitting really hard here. The country who acquired wealth by colonizing different countries ; now the people of those countries are colonizing The Great Britain in their own ways. 😂😂

Great bridge was killed off by the local council, the car park for the indoor market was closed, going to build a health centre, ten years of being boraded up, the health centre was never built, then it was sold for housing, the company went bump, All that couldn't kill the market, But the pandemic did. the old market was sold to a developer from London (?).

Another great video Phil,I remember maybanks the paper recycling firm,we used to collect the papers in a big cart and they used to weigh it on the weighbridge then tip them all out and weigh the empty cart,they always used to check the cart for house bricks as some people used to put them in there so it would weigh more,greets green is supposedly the birth place of west Bromwich albion,as most of the players lived and worked in albion which was a part of greets green back in the day

I thought Coles Lane or Heath Lane would have been steeper.

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The Old Crown was my 2nd home from 1979 to 1992, was a bikers and rockers pub, before that the Teds used It but they stopped after us bikers started using It haha. Many many great rocks was had in there. Them were the days as they say

I used to wag school in wednesbury an catch the 79 up to west brom wiv my mate, can remember the three degrees in the square on a Friday afternoon, next day they were on the pitch at the Albion with big Cyril & Laurie, great days in that town, labour council make me sick..killed that once great town

Fascinating stuff Phil. In my early years I grew up and lived in Florence Road, until the family moved to Black Lake in 1962. The building now occupied by the gym used to be a garage if memory serves me correctly and later became an AA service centre. It has probably changed hands a few times since then. The newsagents on the other corner has always been there I think, run by various people. A few yards into Florence Road was the site of a WW2 bomb hit and remained a pile of rubble well into the late 50s and possibly beyond. The church you saw is Holy Trinity and still very much alive and has changed little over the years. Opposite the church was Holy Trinity Infants school wher I was educated- it was a very old building and in more recent times was knocked down , to be replaced by a more modern school building. The area in the 50s was a decent place to live but it all sadly went into decline with the changes in the population demographic and I certainly would not want to live there now !

Thanks for sharing 🙏, your closing statement absolutely sums up the modern experience phil. My time 60's to 80's from the Jesson park to Carters green and all the way upto the upper high st West Brom building society was memories of safe, clean, vibrancy especially on Fridays and Saturdays... The dereliction and depression rings loader than an old fashioned Rag&Bone man shouting out "Any Ole ironnn!!! with the tune accompanying him and his hoss! Still love my Black Country heritage though ❤

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Quality informative vlog Phil, cheers. I remember the then lovely old public library where my brother and sisters used to study in the 70's and my Dad used to get books to study and as you entered the library on the immediate left was a room where folk inc my Dad would read the latest newspapers to catch up on local and international news etc...ohh what days they were, tidy,clean,well maintained... The whole of West Bromwich, thriving... NOW complete opposite, depressing almost... Sad,Sad,SAD!!! BoingBoingBaggies:-)

Thanks phil i grew up in pemberton road in the 70s, that aerier was my play ground as a kid such fond memories .I can remember walking down gas street with my dad to get to the barbers in swan village A few weeks later high winds brought the old wall down killing a lady in gas street.

Another fascinating video again Phil,as a west Bromwich lad born and bred these videos bring back a lot of memories from my youth,I'm sure at the top of dial road used to be a coach company,which was later the home of the diamond buses,if it's still there I don't know as you started a little further down,the majority of places on the right of dial Lane going from the truck place all the way to the bottom would of been Barrett and bairds I think it was a large company but originally there was plans submitted to have houses built on the site but the council refused .

This was great...Rolfe St. a fascinating place...didnt know about the Post Office....or L & H driving down it ..a superb thought . Late in his life my Father told me when they were kids him and his mates used to go across Galton Bridge...err But underneath .. climbing across the girders!!!! thanks for showing the Soldier Statue... its a strange one..when you approach from a distance it looks a jaunty figure.. but full on close up it shows the full kit ,grime ,fatigue but dignity . Always enjoy you Videos Phil... Best Wishes .

Can I add an honoury mention to john Stokes(RIP) SAS regiment MBE BME from the Durham estate Hamstead

Lots of renovation seems to be going on so I would say plenty going on.😉😊

Hi Phil I used to work at fine fare it was opposite the clock about 50 odd year ago. There was was ferkins the bakers l think a few doors down. All the Albion players used to go in there for a tea and sandwich. Used to go in there for the autographs and a chat No problem in those days. The Rover dealer was Charles Clarke. It was quite a large dealership.Happy days thanks for some great memories Phil. .

I Phil opposite Geust motors I remember a chip shop and a Model shop and up by Dartmouth street was Dartmouth Garage Rover dealers and at the end of your walk were the fencing is was that the Star & Garter pub I find the Walk around West Bromwich interesting all the best Paul

Hi Phil I used to work at fine fare opposite the clock tower about

They'll spend the 20 million on out of town contractors who will spend months ripping up perfectly good pavements and replacing it with slippery block paving. They've already done this in the high street and also made it one way now so no one can drive into the town now. It's all designed by planners working for woke councils carrying out government agendas.It's sadly the same everywhere now.

It Used To Be...."Borough Council Administration...incorporating Villages".....not anymore !!!

Not Administration anymore...==.....expansion to..."West Midlands Metropolitan County"

Half a sixpence Imperial = twopence halfpenny Metric.....Not...Threepenny Bit !!

"Searching for half a Sixpence".......Ancient County Town.....to..Municipal Borough....to..."Metropolitan County..1972/74.Tuppenny 'apepenny...Expansion Metric"

"A place to go to register a birth,register a death and a place to sign on" Sandwell council's new mission statement😂

I was born on Rolfe street a big old railway house next to the station