Wednesbury - History of a Unforgotten Black Country Town + Coronation Street Connections
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Taking a look of a black Country town that today seems to be forgotten about by a lot of people remnants of intustry can be still seen with the patient shaft steel works still on show on wednesbury island the town has had visitors from telly including coronation Street stars pat phoenix who played Elsey tanner jack p shepherd who plays David platt and sue nicolls who was born in wednesbury she plays Audrey Roberts plenty still to see in this black country town
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The bingo hall you pointed out was actually the cinema before they let it go and turned it into a bingo hall. They always did a Saturday morning special at the cinema for us kids in the 1960's. It would cost us a Shilling. It was great fun with Tarzan, Laurel and Hardy films and cartoons as we chomped on our sweets, they were great days. The building you couldn't identify next to the cemetery was actually the local water works and was then used for a few other businesses before being turned into apartments. Some of the adjoining buildings that were once a part of the water works now house various businesses. It was once a great market town now ruined by the local woke council under the orders of government planners with their own agendas.
@@truthseeker7794 thank you for sharing 👍
Amazing to see a parish church still standing in this area of disastrous immigration.
Reading the comments how lovely the people and town is they must be delusional or living in the past the centre is entirely owned by foreigners and it’s not nice to walk around after dark
Wednesbury born & bred. Don't think I could ever leave here, just something so special about this town of ours. Folk are lovely, always a smile around. We've got such a huge history too, the Patent Shaft, FH Lloyd, Mills's, TRW was nearby too.
Great place wednesbury so much history and great black Country folk always enjoy a visit here 👍
Used to go in TRW for my moms businness repairing the centreless grinders.
Miss the old Tandys and secondhand shop, just dont ecognise it since i was a kid.
@@jharengmy dad worked at TRW as a setter operator, used to love the going to the Christmas parties
I drove through those gates every day for some years, but why have they painted them white? The Patent Shaft gates were always light blue! To remember this great company, they should be restored to their original colour.
@@robredridge1703 very true they should stay the same colour 👍
Before the new wednesbury leisure centre was built, the old swimming baths stood there, it wasn't derelict ground 😉
Thanks for the info this video is just me finding out about Wednesbury and exploring the surroundings
I was born in Hallam Hospital, a former Workhose. I lived for a short period in Potter's Lane Wednesbury above a Mangle Repair Shop.
Now there's a long vanished occupation!
So many places have changed around Wednesday but memories will always live on👍
Emthy streets dreadfull
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Medieval town
Older really. Wodens town. All through the years of Christian domination, Woden (Odin to his mates) kept this town and his name in it. A nice bit of ancient paganism from our Germanic tribal heritage has stuck around for at least 1200 years.
Good ole Wednesburay
Oh yes definitely 👍
Also the building at 13:00 is the old Water Works.
"In 1871 the South Staffordshire Waterworks Company built the pumping station in Brunswick Park Road, Wood Green. It has long been a familiar landmark, which was built is the same year that Sampson Lloyd became Chairman of the Waterworks Company.
The pumping station was designed to pump water to the higher parts of the network, in order to improve the supply. It was built on land purchased from Richard Jesson, one of the company’s directors, alongside the London & North Western Railway, where a siding was constructed for the delivery of coal. The pump was operated by a beam engine supplied by James Watt and Company, who also built the boilers. The building was soon extended to house another two beam engines and boilers, which were built by Harvey & Company, of Hayle in Cornwall.
In the early years, the water company received a number of complaints about the large volume of black smoke that was sometimes emitted from the chimney. It hung about the area like a thick fog, covering the cemetery, and sometimes affecting events in nearby Brunswick Park. In the 1890s the company promised to make every effort to reduce the problem and keep it under control.
In 1895, local industrialist Francis Henry Lloyd became a director of the waterworks company, and in 1913 was appointed Chairman, a post he held until his untimely death in 1916.
In 1911 the plant was updated. A new engine house, and a new boiler house were built to contain a Galloways of Manchester triple expansion engine with force pumps, and two Lancashire boilers. The new plant was capable of pumping four million gallons of water each day.
In 1918 the old Watt beam engine was dismantled and the original engine hall became workshops for the repair and maintenance of the pumping plant.
The plant was again updated in 1920 when the steam engines were replaced by three electrically driven pumps built by the Swiss company, Sulzer Brothers. The two Harvey & Company’s beam engines and the old boilers were dismantled to provide space for an administration office and central stores. In 1926, due to the high cost of electricity, a steam turbine and a 320 kilowatt alternator were installed in a turbine room built in part of the boiler house.
The pumping station continued in use until 1975 when the Walsall Booster Station opened. In 1981 the buildings and land were sold. The newer building is now an apartment block, the others are occupied by several small companies."
That's great I really love local history thanks for the info 👍
I would have thought you would have done a bit of research , if you were making a video about a town. Instead of Just reading reading the names of the shops. You obviously know nothing about Wednesbury building was the old waterworks. The bingo is closed it’s an old cinema you need to take as your shows there was a large theatre there next to the lamp pub. Cemetery we claim to be Wednesbury cemetery Wood Green Cemetery we have two.
The video is more about discovering the town of Wednesbury and things I've never seen before along with some of the things I know about already when I've been there in the past such as visiting the town centre it is really difficult for anyone to cover the complete history of a town like Wednesbury this video I feel just covers some of the main places 👍
Playland Amusements used to be in the Union Centre that they demolished for Morrisons. Used to love going in the indoor market and across the road to the 'outdoor market'
Born there remember the pub near the clock tower called [the rising sun] it had sawdust on the floor, remember all the town well including the public baths the ones where you could pay for a bath 😅
Thanks for the info I really love finding out about the past of Former places love wednesbury 👍
@The Richest Man In Babylon memory bit vague now nearly eighty years old remember an lady dragging her hubby out the bar cussing him like hell, probably spent his wages 😂😂😂
Does anyone have any old pictures of the houses and shops, chemist at end that used to be in walsall street by the old war memorial. Knocked down in the 80s to make room for care homes.
There may be old wednesbury photos in some of the books detailing the black country I believe Waterstones stock them or Amazon hope this helps 👍
Proud to live in Wednesbury
Great place always love a visit 👍
wednesbury is my place to live it has loads of things in the past what u can learn and its beautiful [kinda]
Great place always love to visit 👍
Our beloved home town were we all look out for each other
Always a pleasure to visit wednesbury great people thanks for your comment 👍
The clock in the park was there 70 years ago
Wow that's fantastic it's great when the past is still there love to see the old clocks ⏱️