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At the end of WW2 there were some military buildings abandoned near the Stone Cross pub which some families moved into to live, my family was one of them, they were known locally as ''The Hutments'', little is known of them today but they are shown on our birth certificates as place of residence ''The Hutments''.

Hi Phil I remember a clinic up on the left up Jervoise Lane this is were I got all my jabs as a kid all the best Paul

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A decent place with decent people living there. Happy memories of there.

My husband an i and family used to ti cliffton bingo alot my husband family now in sandflied rd an elford rd but used to live in carisbrooke rd happy memories😅

Hi Phil, I live in Manorford Ave and have lived here for 54 years.I could tell you a lot more that the public don't know.If I see you knocking about,I'll furnish you with more to the story.

Lived on stone cross, the alley way leads to bustleholme lane, which leads to the sandies and charlemont farm.Stone cross is not a good area to live, got worse there, wasn’t that good before.

Holloway bank is wednesbury, Cole’s lane & bagnall street are steeper! C😂😂😂

Judas priest mainly walsall , one member from marsh lane

Hi Phil enjoyed walking around Stone Cross I remember a Milk Bar and a news agent on the road heading up to West Bromwich side and a Bundy Clock and the Stone Cross pub had a Gentleman's only bar and an off licence I can see the area has not changed much apart from the type shops and the flats were the Cliffton once stood all the best Paul

I think i commented on your last stone cross vid Phil and moaned about the parking situation there. People get their "food" from Greggs and then sit in their cars and vans for 20minutes eating it while using up valuable parking spaces. The opposition hairdressers used to be a Victoria Wines I believe and the off licence you pointed out used to be Sunners wine shop for many years. I think the One Stop shop used be Sneads ran by the two most miserable people I've ever come across, and was Sneads many years before ran by different people who sold everything and kept an amazing stock of cassette tapes, and yes Stone Cross is now takeaway city. The old cinema was a bingo hall for many years before it was demolished to build those strange looking flats. My Mom and Dad met at that pub that's now the Curry N Grill House. We tried it once but not been back. I used to use the Service and Supplies shop a lot but they just use the shop as a base now and I also used the electrical supplies shop opposite the new flats but it doesn't open so much now. I'll be there tomorrow to buy some fish from the fish monger who comes from Derby every week and parks on the pavement next to the Black Country Chip shop. Oh just one last moan Phil, you must have noticed the loud clanking sound of that drain every time a car drove over it. That would drive me mad if I lived near to it or even worked in one of the shops. I'd be onto the council or highways straight away. You did well to make this depressing shopping area look more interesting. Great vid mate.

Another informative vlog mate! Love your videos!! Looking forward to your historical visit to Europa avenue and Mountbatten close.

I can remember Stone Cross motor spares being there from the 80's. Around the corner was mad Harris the barber! Osbornes the butchers has been for a long time, it was Hughes Butchers before. Also the blind shop was Fred Evans grocers. I'm pretty sure there used to be a Firkins on Stone Cross too. The Stone Cross local used to be Glowbelle Travel shop. I did a week work experience in there!

There passage way goes to Bustleholme Lane. I think one of the Ladbrokes units was Popeyes video rentals.

I remember the shops from the 70/80s.......look terrible now.....and that block of flats is an eyesore....

Too many eating places for such a small area.

My memories of Stone Cross are Sneads Newsagents, The Chippy, The Video Rental Shop, Threshers Off License, Mobil Petrol Station, Global Travel Shop, West Bromwich Building Society and it's clock, The Cross Pub obviously and of course the Subways !

Hi, Tge flats are having the cladding removed because it didn’t meet fire regs The passage way you mentioned is known as the Gully and leads to bustleholme Ran balti is closed down amazing place … didn’t have any reviews in 20 years but would guarantee it had a healthy turnover on the books The cinema was demolished and started with Gypsy’s working in a Sunday and ripping out the asbestos boiler house and transporting the debris to god knows where The barber shops have mostly appeared over the last few months but a couple are genuine establishments The nail bars are dubious Maybe you could do a vid on Friar Park ?

I can barely watch it now. Is it nail bars and fast food? Me and my mom used to go to the bingo hall. At the matinee.

Thursday is the best day to go. I love Bilston town.

The scaffolding on the flats is due to the cladding being replaced after the Grenfell tradgedy

Just to say the passage used to come out on Bustlehome lane I walked through it every day on my way to school not sure if it stiil does

The stone cross Clifton cinema shut in 1964 I saw zulu in there that passage way you looked down came out on Bustlehome lane and the kebab house was a old type iron mongers before it was a supermarket and raj balti was a chip shop called the Rumbletum

Hi Phil I went to school down Westminster road on stone Cross called millfields school back in the 80s and 90s they used to take us to the shops there thank you for a brilliant video keep up the good work from Marie 😁

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Another brilliant video Phil....I can remember that school....I wonder if Siddons Way is something to do with this company?....Joseph & Jesse Siddons Ltd Howard Street Hill Top West Bromwich B70 0TB

There is also Thomas Barratt from Tipton. I had the honour of holding his VC once back in the very early 80's because I knew one of his relatives. He was killed in action so his parents went to collect the medal from King George V. After the ceremony before going home they called into a pawn shop to get a valuation. They were offered half a crown. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Barratt_(VC)

I went to Hill Top and before that Harvilles Hawthorn. The park off Dial Lane was where we played weekly. Great memories. I left Hill Top in 1982

As you mentioned in the video, the school was indeed on a flat. But underneath the school's car park, there was a bomb shelter capable of holding all students and teachers during an air raid. This prob makes sense to why it goes down now towards the back...

Hi Phil I liked that picture of Hill Top school because that's how remember it I enjoyed your Walk around area and the history and seeing how it's changed at the end of your walk at the junction of coles Lane I'm not sure now was there a pub on the corner all the best Paul

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At 7:17, that made me smile about the mobility scooter.

As usual Phil you managed to extract some interesting information from an otherwise very uninteresting street but having said that, I just hate these new tacky rows of shops that are popping up everywhere now. But to have a further moan, after seeing the Hill Top supermarket it reminded me of a trend I'm seeing everywhere now where shops are building these permanent "lean to" structures on the pavement on the front of their shops as an extension and displaying and storing stock in them. Now as far as I'm aware, the shop owner or renter does not own or rent the land directly outside of their shop as it is actually a public foot path. I'm surprised the local councils don't come down hard on the shop owners. It's ok temporarily displaying a few fruit and veg outside of your shop such as they do in Union Street Wednesbury but I think this is a step too far to build these structures that are often built very shoddily so they are possibly unsafe and they look a mess. Of course, the star of the show was the lovely old caretakers house that looked really out of place next to those flimsy new builds. Oh and yes Luggs Ironmongers were brilliant. You could buy anything from a screw to a welding machine from there except for on a Saturday. I don't know why they closed although there is a Luggs tool shop online. You mentioned the lack of Butchers shops but after watching one of your vids last weekI think they've all moved to Bilston Market. There is now a Punjabi Butchers on Yew Tree estate just up the road from where we live. So the fireworks are still going strong round here and I've got me a couple of beers in and will be watching the election results deep into the night. I think the outcome is very important to us. Thanks for the walkabout Phil.

Where your video starts was where I got my head kicked in by three lads back in the day, Good times

Thanks for the vlog, interesting as usual, keep up the good work on the history of West Bromwich, I really enjoy the information you share. 😊 #1fan

A friend of ours lived further down in what was a doctors house made into flats the old lady lived there has well it was a lovely big house, now gone and I think they built houses or flats

I think I'd prefer hill top school there, I remember it, than this housing estate

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Looks OK place, clean and tidy too, probably make a visit for spring summer season 😊

I remember coming out the rising sun with my old man after the Xmas disco it was thick with snow we crawled up that hill pissed to my nans house.

My old man ran a cb club upstairs in the rising sun used to put a disco on at Xmas the woden pub was my nans in the 70s he moved the club next to the cop shop upstairs in the pub can't remember it's name. God blimey me and our kid had some laughs around Wednesbury specifically in the bottle.

The Adelphi didn't sell beer only cider from memory.

I used to sit on the big ring in the wall waiting for my mom to come out from shopping in kwik save up the ramp bit. Sad to see it now

roughly where the red car is situated there is a grave of 6 children including their babysitter that died in a house fire 1978/1979? on friar park when the fire brigade went on strike. I remember the army green goddess was called to extinguish the fire, I think it was started by Christmas decoration falling on the fire but not 100% sure about that though.

My Uncle Paul Chance boxed at the Gala Baths when he was amateur , he was with Golden Gloves, Bilston

Good one Phil

That hotel is where the swingers go, they have the top floor and I only know because I knew someone who used to work at the hotel. the club next to it was the chosen few, Shalama restaurant where we all used to go after clubbing. West Brom used to be really good good night life and shopping, it’s not good now for either, makes no difference that they have renovated it, no one will invest in the town it hasn’t got anything to offer.

West bromwich has been took over its like capehill and handsworth disgrace now