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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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