WEST BROMWICH BEACON VIEW ROAD, there's been a fair few murders around here

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[@ShaunVid]

Many Moons ago I used to hand around there the Flats were badly design the Living Room was down stairs bedroom were upstairs a few of my friends lived there there are a tiny park back of the flats the boxing club near by. The Library was a mobile van you bring the memories back buddy. Your are right about your Nan's home those flats are brilliant some really nice people live in them and loads of Secuirty There been many murders on that estate many to say the least. I can't even walk up it or down it as my health knackered now., having Electric cars in flats they mention charging area which the Council will install and have to pay. Maybe some of use could do a very Tiny walk with you I know we all have knowledge.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Shaun when Im back around these parts I'll drop you a line

[@ShaunVid]

@awalkwithphil Hi Phil little about myself I know alot about all areas Dudley West Brom Darlaston Bilston Bradley kiddy Warwick Birmingham besides that knowing areas is good how things have changed over the years like Purple Bricks in Wednesbury new owners took it down remember Barratt and Birds a big company which is gone. On hill top the old picture house on hill top park it where the cooperative is now. Swan village the gas towers in gas street all gone. Changes changes it be good to come with yourself no hills when you choose to do one it be good fun I think, but it's your video creation at the end of the day just saying. I am from wednesbury and West bromwich area went to Hill Top School so many years ago now so where you located, I do think I know you from somewhere or we have met but not sure where or when.

[@awalkwithphil]

@@ShaunVid Thanks again Shaun, especially the info it all helps. Im sure we'll bump into each other soon

[@awalkwithphil]

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[@ShaunVid]

That bridge leek a lot, yet again I used to hand around there as well on my pedal bike years ago you could swim in that canel it was that clear years ago a bit further down there was a swimming area long before my time it was where Tram goes over the canal bridge, this how I learnt to swim got thrown in the canal had no choice. Yes you could drive down there phil

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Shaun for the info

[@TheGraftman]

Nice to meet you at the top of Beaconview road hill , not much to look at lived on bustleholme and now Charlemont the last 60 years Dave & Tracey

[@awalkwithphil]

Many thanks, always a pleasure to meet those who watch the channel, always appreciated. Hope you enjoyed your day out in Dudley, I will make a visit there very soon, all the best

[@Amanda12325]

Great walk around Phil. It doesn’t look too bad around there on this dank and miserable day. Thanks for doing that so we don’t need to 😂😊

[@awalkwithphil]

Quite right it didn't look too bad at all

[@stephentaylor9365]

Lovely walkl interesting and informative. I look forward to your videos Phill, keep them coming.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Stephen, much appreciated

[@thepharcyde5239]

Great meeting you today Phil. Thanks for the keyring, i think we coulda chatted history untill it got dark. Great channel phil ❤

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Mate, always a pleasure to meet supporters of the channel, no doubt will see you again soon

[@Caggyhanded]

It was Marshall House that got demolished not Kennedy House (Kennedy is now Camberley). In the trees behind those flats in Daisy Drive in the 60s/early 70s there was an alleyway connecting Charlemont Avenue to Beaconview Road and a tennis courts right behind those flats, the alleyway is no longer there but those old tennis courts are actually still there complete with the original chain link fencing round them all really overgrown now but otherwise just as they were. The road to the right of Beaconview where the railway bridge is was once a continuation of Bustleholme Lane which led to the old Bustleholme Mill next to the canal and those mill buildings were knocked down about 1970 to make way for the building of the motorway, i watched the motorway being built at the time. By the Navigation pub there was also a little wooden shed like shop. I could go on but will leave it there for now.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks for the correction CH i was aware that it was Marshall that was demolished but for some odd reason I got them mixed up and failed to spot the error. Thanks for the other info, much appreciated

[@gengar90]

my road when i was growing up. used to live in the flats behind the shops at the bottom of the hill. lots of flats on this road before they got demolished for those small beach houses lol

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks GG there were far of those flats behind the shops than I realised

[@Rollin-Rant]

You really bring back fond memories of me working in West Bromwich back in the 1970s, I remember Wyndmill crescent and Beaconview Road, happy day's. I love watching your videos 👍

[@awalkwithphil]

Cheers RR, much appreciated

[@andycarless9069]

I used to live on Charlemont Est until i was 4 then we all moved to Collins Road in Wednesbury in 1971 !! Wow that's changed !! And the Navigation Pub Gone .

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks andy

[@Caggyhanded]

Just to add, at the top of Beaconview Road actually right on the corner of Charlemont Road/Hollyhedge Road near the church there was a corner shop in the 60s, the shop was a bungalow owned by a MR. Hill.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks CH I can vaguely remember it being a shop but I must have been about 4yrs old at the time

[@lise2378]

The Navi where you could literally buy "anything"!! I wonder how many times it was raided altogether, if anyone knows?? Great memories of that place growing up.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Lise

[@juliefinch9687]

Lovely video Phil

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks Julie

[@paulhill196]

Hi Phil enjoyed the walk down Beacon view Road I loved drinking in the Spinney in the early seventys. When you was at the cannal bridge on the old Walsall Road if you walked up the road towards Stone Cross I remember Sandhills Garage and the sand and gravel pit on the left hand side of the Walsall Road all the best Paul

[@awalkwithphil]

Many thanks, I was going to mention the sandpits when I got to the bridge but completely forgot.

[@paulhill196]

@awalkwithphil Hi Phil I don't remember seeing another pub like the Navigation owned by Atkinsons brewery around the west Bromwich area all the best Paul

[@thepharcyde5239]

Wherer you walked up the cut Phil was a toll in the middle of the cut for paying merchant goods barges ... one side was filled in in the 90s There was another up the gangees end Yew Tree it was a shillling to pass the toll .

[@awalkwithphil]

Brilliant info, thanks

[@geoffwbaU]

I think you may have your bearings wrong Phil re the Navigation pub. I remember it in the early 60s from my teenage years and I thought it was about 100 yards on the right of the road as you pass under the canal aqueduct, looking towards Walsall. This seems to be borne out by the photographs on the West Bromwich Memories KZbin pages. Also, I thought the tanker explosion happened in Roberts Road.

[@awalkwithphil]

Roberts Road definitely extended much further than it did now so the explosion would have been almost on the corner of Roberts Road, I do find it rather difficult to pinpoint exactly these days Geoff, mostly I give an approximation

[@johncallaghan2041]

You're right pal

[@robali7390]

There's an actor called Matthew Marsden, that came from Charlemont Farm, he's been in Hollywood films, but I best remember him from Coronation Street circa 1998. From yew tree/Charlemont Farm sort or area.

[@awalkwithphil]

Yes I know him I think he went to the Wodensborough school

[@robali7390]

It just goes to show... You can get yourself out of any area ,& be a success.. But as the saying goes... You can take the person out of the black country.... But not the other way around 😂.

[@awalkwithphil]

very true that

[@PatDawes]

Mathew lived on the Yew Tree Estate.

[@catharinecarrington2705]

Coronation Street Matthew mason the starting coronation Street from West Bromwich the original actor who starred in coronation Street is from this area broke up in West Bromwich on charlemont farm is

[@mukkaspec3333]

My boyhood estate is a complete mess (like all the others). Oh Phil by the way, it was Marshall house and the library that were demolished to make way for more landlord accommodation. I know Marshall, Kennedy and Roosevelt were ugly but they housed hundreds of Council tenants. Just like the maisonettes used to which have been replaced by those beech huts.

[@awalkwithphil]

Thanks for the info regarding Marshall House, for all their faults they did exactly what they were intended to do, good points

[@mukkaspec3333]

@@awalkwithphil Indeed Phil. May have got them mixed up (age) but I don't think I have. You named plenty of the original shops. I could mention many people and where they lived in tour video, but we all could do that.

[@thepharcyde5239]

Marshall house yellow block demolished phil kennedy blue is now red painted Roosvelt was grey 20 story ..now cream. Liptons forboys firkins dankerts last on right by chipshop mike n marie ALWAYS ARGUING😂

[@awalkwithphil]

Yes I got those blocks mixed up, appreciate the info though, many thanks