I’ve had a request from reader Michael Newman-Turner for images of the upper end of the High Street, between Ogley Road and Anchor Bridge to stir his memories – so I’ve trawled all I can find from out of print local photo books (thanks to the historians who collected them and made them available).
However, if anyone has any images of this area before the flats went up I’d love to see and share them please. Comment here or mail me: BrownhillsBob at googlemmil dot com. Thanks!
A very unusual picture of a rainy Brownhills High Street and the Warreners Arms from Waine House, which must have been quite new at this point. Note the petrol pumps on the forecourt of Forward Garage. Do you know who the man is in the picture? It certainly shows why one should take care with the captions in local history books… Cannock Road my arse. Taken from’Memories of Walsall: A Pictorial Record’ by Alton Douglas.
From ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Brownhills Past’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.
From ‘Memories of Old Brownhills’ by Clarice Mayo and Geoff Harrington. Click for a larger version.