WEDNESBURY WOOD GREEN ROAD It's now nothing but a very noisy road

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Ай бұрын

WEDNESBURY WOOD GREEN ROAD had 6 pubs along here but just one left, there were a fair few shops along here also but now none left

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@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

Hope you enjoyed this short look down the Wood Green Road in Wednesbury. Consider subscribing to this channel by hitting the SUBSCRIBE BUTTON in order for me to continue making films in and around West Bromwich and it will also ensure you are alerted to new video content. As always, all comments, questions, and feedback are welcome. Thanks for watching!!

@johnnywood3092 Ай бұрын

That oakswell well is new to me. I lived in Wednesbury for many years. And i am so grateful for learning this new information. I enjoy this channel very much

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

Thank you for your support

@Wench64 Ай бұрын

The horse and jockey had a restaurant upstairs, it was loverly, miss it these days, no where to go for a decent meal anymore

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

I never knew it had a restaurant.

@Amanda12325 Ай бұрын

Another well in Sandwell that’s amazing that you find them ( Oakswell and purl well )

@ef1265 Ай бұрын

Excellent video my mom loved it, she used to get off the bus there to visit her nan and grandad Looking forward to more Wednesbury videos when you get round to them

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

Many thanks, pleased it brought back memories

@Outandaboutwithpoggy 25 күн бұрын

Hi Phil, being born in Short St just off the Bilston Road and a short Walk from the High Bullen, I remember the gaumont well, As we got older we would take it in turns every Saturday Matinee and one of us would pay to go in, then that person who go down to the side of the screen area which was behind velvet curtains and open the fire escape door and loose us all in under the cover of darkness when the lights went down, as you looked over to the cenotaph on the side of the road it is always a serene place to sit and just observe , my late uncle is mentioned as one of those killed in action in 1944 at the Battle of Caen in France, I remberthe Oakeswell Hall as a youngster but never knew about the well, Across the road from Kendrick where the health centre is now was my old doctors surgery, my GP was Dr Huey, he bought me into the world in the upstairs front room of my grandparents house, I later learned that is son also became a doctor,I had many happy hours at the age of 15 looking through the jobs at the Labour exchange, you could go in ther say on a Monday, pick a job and start on Tuesday, not like that these days eh! phil, another fine video , Well Done, Mike AKA Poggy

@awalkwithphil 25 күн бұрын

@@Outandaboutwithpoggy thanks for sharing those great memories and for your support

@judithparker4608 Ай бұрын

You're like Ghost of the Past !

@paulhill196 Ай бұрын

Hi Phil you have joged my memory I worked as a contractor at the Spear & Jacksons site as a welder Fabricater repairing the metal bins and modifying the Pallets all the best Paul

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

Thanks for that, I just had a feeling that S&J were around those parts

@user-sc3ts6lf8r 18 күн бұрын

Spear and Jackson.... wore that the owd.... Bescot Drop Forgings ? I used lie in bed when I was nipper and listen to them big 'ommers gooin at it. It was a mile away as the Crow Flies ....

@awalkwithphil 18 күн бұрын

@@user-sc3ts6lf8r I'm not aware it was called Bescot Drop Forgings although its original name was Elwell forges, Elwell was of course a big name in Wednesbury at the turn of the 20th Century

@paulhill196 Ай бұрын

Hi Phil enjoyed the walk around Wood Green Road I used to live about 5 doors down from the Leather un Bottle in vicarage Road .I remember the grocer shop was open about 40 years ago but a cannot remember the name of it all the best Paul

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

It's amazing that after all these years no one has ever changed the frontage. I have a feeling the surname began with a B but who knows

@user-sc3ts6lf8r 18 күн бұрын

Remember E and B Warehouse over the Road from the Bottel... Or Pat Burke used to goo in Ye Olde Leathern Bottel

@judithparker4608 Ай бұрын

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@alistairstocking8331 Ай бұрын

I learnt swimming in Wednesbury baths.

@user-sc3ts6lf8r 18 күн бұрын

I got me nose broke scrappin' in the fowpnies when I was 10. 1958.

@Tom.Jackson. Ай бұрын

Start of video you showed Squirers Walk but did you know the houses on the right going up was Squirers Walk and opposite houses was situated in the name of Brunswick Terrace? Nightmare for delivery drivers lol Good to see Woodgreen Nursing home still there, delivered every day there from Oconnells shop 🙂 and delivered all those areas, you look familiar, maybe you used to come in the shop I worked 🤷‍♂️😉

@awalkwithphil Ай бұрын

Very interesting info i wasn't aware the 2 areas ran parallel - I did indeed live around the area in the early 90s for a short time so you may have seen me around, it's a small world really!