I’ve got some great stuff coming up. But here’s a taste of something really exciting from reader and New Year competition winner Fred Butler. I give you… the start of Crabtree, Brownhills, in 1954.
Note the familiar curve in the canal, the familiar chimney of Superalloys. A partially built Midland Auto Rewinds factory. This is the birth of light industry in Brownhills, and would sustain us as a community until the end of the century.
Fred’s got some great stuff. Please stay tuned…
A young Crabtree factory and Superalloys; Lichfield Road from the air in 1954. Not the Midland Auto Rewinds factory under construction bottom centre. Image supplied by reader Fred Butler.