The History of the Walsall Arboretum - Student Narrated Documentary

[@corsair919]

Very good. There was a swimming pool, constructed in 1925, just down from the gully that separates the extension from the park, and also an aviary with exotic birds.

[@mickcollingswood1649]

My Father worked at the Arboretum during the war years, he has just turned 92 years old and can still name all of his workmates from that time, one of his jobs was testing the ice to see if it was safe for skating on, he says that two of them had to push across the ice in a flat bottom punt (in case the ice broke) measuring the thickness , he has many other stories too.

[@shanangel1228]

Awww,,, you should do a KZbin upload with your father's memories of the park.

[@johnhughes4612]

Great video, I still remember my first night of passion with big sharon and Tracy on the swings in 1998

[@Truth77772]

Loved this...Walsall a once great town... we need to make it so again been left to decline in past few decades.... started when they destroyed old train station! and the George hotel so many old historical building been set on fire or destroyed!

[@pchopgoogle2565]

Excellent documentary. Really nursed my home sickness atm.

[@Nicolas-rs7xd]

Learned a lot. It gave me a better understanding of the History of the park. Good job. 👍

[@BarryRudge]

As a family we left Walsall in March 1958 I was 11 yrs of age, prior to then I loved visiting the Arboretum with my brother, loved the paddling pool and the children's recreation area and also the averies where they kept all sorts of exotic birds. My last visit was sometime in the 1970's when my wife and I took our children to see the illuminations. It is sad to learn of their demise but a public park cannot sustain such revenue losses and damage.

[@joannebrown6163]

Fantastic video, and very interesting. Thank you to all involved in making it :)

[@marybarratt2649]

Thanks everyone. This brought back many memories. Walks as a child with my father and later I took my own children. I must pay it another visit. We should bring back stocks for shoplifters and set them up outside stores in town. There is a headstone to the Mayor in Ryecroft cemetery which actually decries the man who tried to rescue him. It was leaning up a hedge the last time I saw it.

[@SU11YGX123]

great documentary, I would also like to point out that a lot more people have died in those lakes. from my knowledge there was 2 murders in the main lake that was one of the reasons why the boats were stopped. another death was in the other lake where a double decker bus crashed into the wall and fell in the lake, it took the search team few months (cant remember how long) to find the bus. only the driver was inside the bus as it was off duty heading back to the bus stand

[@WebbysWalks]

Brilliant documentary of a place my family and I visit regularly. Thank you. Love this, Love the arboretum.

[@mohammedzaman8550]

Love this, I have shared with my friends and family. Excellent work guys, hand on heart! Love Walsall 🫶🏼❤️

[@NorchiMedia]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@capturesexpress]

The member of the public who died in the search for the mayor. This from his memorial stone now placed at Ryecroft Crematorium.Sacred to the memory of Edward James Oakley aged 19 years who was accidentally drowned July 9th 1845 While engaged in searching for the body of J.H. Jarvey Esq. Late Mayor of this town, who lost his life in a pool in Lichfield Street while bathing there. Stay reader and behold the hapless lot of one whose present will be soon forgot. Reflect on lifes quick transit from the flood of eager youth to an untimely tomb I feel this transit with my latest breath and full of life lay in the arms of death. This stone is erected by a few friends as a token of respect.

[@Elrien101]

I found this very interesting, well done.

[@davidnorchi4842]

Thank you Debbie

[@Beanie1984]

I came here looking to see what happened to walsall illuminations that I used to go to as a child!

[@digzy99]

Great documentary well done 👌

[@NorchiMedia]

Thanks :D

[@ColinAtkins-j3h]

Spent many hours fishing the arbo back in the 70s 👍🦊 crackin video

[@colinwhite1743]

Excellent.......Well done.

[@beluil]

Great work guys

[@117kable]

Great video guys 👍

[@ZoneHorror.]

A very well edited documentary. Great work guys!

[@NorchiMedia]

JLBZombie thank you!

[@annpartoon5300]

It has changed a great deal since I used to take my children there in the 1960s , it seams more ordered

[@joannebrown6163]

I love this, very well presented, thank you :)

[@carasmallwood6761]

Enjoyed this!

[@jackjones9116]

Thanks for all the great information sent your video interesting would love to see a another video with some more information about the old Arboretum

[@tobyfletcher6803]

Great film well done everyone involved.

[@NorchiMedia]

Thank you :)

[@timvisits2900]

great video, very informative, thanks for sharing :)

[@PompeyBoy66]

Good video. Lovely park.

[@carole5951]

Very interesting 🐞

[@BIGGEST786]

Well done to all involved

[@colintsang6701]

Very good quality video

[@NorchiMedia]

Thank you!

[@jhvoojh]

Cracking town and lovely park

[@flybobbie1449]

That one lake was considered bottomless, always looked scary.

[@flybobbie1449]

I remember the Peacocks. Witches hat was favourite for us kids. Walsall show on extension was good. All gone now.

[@mickowen568]

it was at fullbrook 4 awhile b4 moveing it 2 the arba

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

Top marks for effort, guys, but it's a pity nobody read through all the subtitles before you published - as it keeps showing 'Warsaw' instead of 'Walsall'! Mistakes like that can throw a whole project into discredit - hope you learn from it lads for next time!

[@davidnorchi4842]

Hi Steve, thank you for your comments, lesson learned :-)

[@Adam-lq7fx]

Fucking shut up mate

[@SteveParkes-Sparko]

@@Adam-lq7fx Nice one pal!

[@zulfqarali905]

Hi very good local history

[@Трезвостьнормажизни-ш4ж]

Tell me people did Noddy Holder live there?

[@levi-pn4rn]

Never go in them lakes if your from walsall

[@davidnorchi4842]

Good advice Levi :-)

[@NorchiMedia]

Hey guys. The film was voted runner up for January's film of the month competition by Into Film! Check out the link here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5i4fXtsf6Zrh9U

[@23rdjune]

I think it was a wise decision for the Jerome family to change their name from Klap.

[@MrJackandy123]

I fucking love you Gombo.wheres the peacock enclosure and the old cafe.......not 100% accurate,no mention of it being left in a will to walsall council also the house in the grounds, who lived there,I know.no mention of cray fishing In the brooks.other than that pat yourselves on the back 10 out 10 from me.peace love you all stay safe.RESPECT.Walsall forever.

[@kennylees2939]

Lovely place go there nice walk sometimes .used to take my son fishing to.lot poeple know it for illumination s also now bonfire and Walsall show.nice to see the lottery spending money on the park.only thing I don't like is you got cross a lot of roads now to get in park from the town areas.well done to the council .the park s in bloxwich are nice but always dustbin lorry's park there lunch time spoil the view of park and fountain area and if want some lunch your self and sit on the bench you got to smell everyone s rubbish.but the council don't mind them doing that as I have complained about it.there are lots of nice parks in Walsall arboretum lovely another lovely park is king George's bloxwich you don't have the view of smelly dustcart s there

[@sianwebb2128]

We want the illimations

[@crystalclarke5054]

It's haunted also .

[@garyfaulkner1480]

Many a day as a kid was swimming in the grotty lido..😂😂

[@sianwebb2128]

Wow

[@shabbirkiyani8696]

I used2 take my kids there as we was living walsall than which was there birth town also

[@sianwebb2128]

The accsent is beautiful. Dnt hide it babs

[@davidnorchi4842]

Sorry but some of the auto generated subtitles are not correct :-)

[@andrewsmith1452]

Low attendance due to the fact it became more Diwali festival of light aim toward a narrative that had no interest

[@kw9547]

Why did they leave out where the money used to buy the land and build the house came from? For generations, the Hathertons enslaved generations of Africans without ever leaving England. They owned two slave plantations and enjoyed the compensation money when slavery was abolished. I enjoyed this documentary but to make a documentary about a place and leave out how it came to be in the first place is wrong.

[@corsair919]

Not all the money, a lot would have been used to pay the African slave traders, one has a statue in Nigeria.

[@mickowen3318]

where in the park was this pic taken