Tag Archives: Simon Briercliffe

A remarkable local rail journey – stepping right out of time

Posted on August 21, 2016 by BrownhillsBob

There’s currently a buzz in the local rail community and in some groups on Facebook about a 1968 cinefilm recently converted to digital and uploaded online by rail historian and blog regular, Ian Pell – it’s a remarkable, wonderful thing, and Ian has written a fascinating account of the film and line it covers especially for the blog, which I feature below.

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Fired up

Posted on June 18, 2016 by BrownhillsBob

Last week, we looked at early evidence of local brick making on an industrial scale, after a remarkable passage describing a local brickworks was spotted in an 1850 book by the wonderful Simon Briercliffe.

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Welcome to the pleasure grounds

Posted on October 13, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

I am indebted to friends of the blog and top local historians Clive Roberts and Stuart Williams who both sent me copies of the following image of Coalpool Pleasure Grounds taken I believe around 1910.

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In Coalpool did Brewer a pleasure ground erect?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by BrownhillsBob

Last week I revealed the mystery archive where I’d been finding all those great architecture pictures, and also pointed out that the filing system was curious, in that there seemed to be several dislocated images in the system – including the one of ‘Harden Hall’, which actually turned out to not be a Walsall image at all.
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