I’m indebted to top reader and comment dynamo D. Evans for solving the mystery of the soup kitchen location in the photo I posted last weekend. Had I realised what an odd little building the old Wesleyan Church was, I’d have paid more attention to it before it was demolished. There are no stone block buildings that I know of locally. Wonder why the media was chosen for this one?
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Oh, and Mr. D. Evans? Seems so formal… I think we’re familiar enough for first names now…
It's hard to see because it's had a coat of paint (amongst other things) but the doorway does have the angled cornices of the one in the soup kitchen photo. From 'Memories of Old Walsall Wood' by Bill Mayo & John Sale.
The soup kitchen photo actually appears in the same book, right underneath with a caption that says where it is. That'll teach me to do my research. I still can't place the texture of the masonry and imposing impression with the relatively small building I remember. Coincidentally, I looked for it yesterday as I passed and realised it hat gone. From 'Memories of Old Walsall Wood' by Bill Mayo a& John Sale.