WEST BROMWICH SPON LANE, Visiting the GHOSTS of its Industrial past
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- WEST BROMWICH SPON LANE, Finding some traces of its industrial might. But much has gone, together with the School and practically every pub has vanished.
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Phil, I was born in WB during the War and have lived here ever since. Your walking videos are so nostalgic. Thank You!
Many thanks for your support
Thankyou
A refreshing walk 😊. Loved the houses in the middle of an industrial estate, very unusual 😊
They certainly did look odd
Hi Phil I know Spon Lane lyng Lane and Moor Street very well it is a nice part of West Bromwich keep up the good work from Marie 😁
Thanks Marie, there are some redeeming features of the Town
Back then they'd have been learning these production skills and trades....!
They needed a drink after that Heavy Work!
Hi Phil enjoyed the walk down Spon Lane I remember the Dartmouth at the front of the pub just to the right was the top end of paradise Street I remember the Labour exchange and Robinson cake shop at the end of the main High Street shops and we're the new college is there was a Salvation army church and car park and some small factory's just past the college on the right I worked for a firm called Grenweld as a Tig Welder I'm sure it was around that area all the best Paul
Great memories of Paradise street, a street that should never have been bulldozed
I remember the Salvation Army church too, I forgot about that during this walk, thanks for the reminder.😊
Yes I remember salvation army I used to go there to Sunday school when I was young 😁
Spon Lane rekindled a few memories, but I can't say I recognised very much of what you showed. You mentioned Paradise Street, and when I worked at Radio Rentals in the late 60s early 70s - in the High Street, up near Dartmouth Square, I remember that the rear of our shop came out in Paradise Street. From memory, not to be totally relied upon these days, it ran from the junction of Dartmouth Square and Spon Lane slightly diagonally down the back of the High Street to the road - the name of which I can't remember - where the billiard hall was (was it Lyng Lane?}. Going back to Spon Lane, it seems to me that there is a glaring paradox in all the changes, that is that the more they 'improve' things the worse it gets!
You are indeed correct about Lyng Lane, somehow that road passed me by. It was left at the old fire station whilst Paradise St continued a few more yards to the crossroads of Moor St and St Michael St with Price st ahead of it. Many thanks for that
Boing Boing Baggies
What Industries Have All Those Students Got In Mind I Wonder ?
I wonder too
@@awalkwithphil it's not their fault...I asked a girl with the "buggy" about 20 years ago what she was hoping for her little one, she said...footballer, model ! I felt so sorry for her Dellusions.
@@awalkwithphil I had some involvement with Sandwell College - in Smethwick - about 30 years ago and they were busy recruiting students from places like Malaysia. Further and higher education in this country has lost its true purpose and become more of a business.
Sorry but these new builds are ugly and the houses, affordable housing are slums of the future I prefer the old houses at least you have gardens
That's very true