With Haden Hill Park, Mousesweet Brook Local Nature Reserve, Saltwells, Codsall Coppice, Corngreaves and Leasowes, there are so many open spaces to explore One area I didn't know about until a few years ago is the stretch of canal into Coombeswood which comes out near B&Q on Mucklow Hill Somewhere where I do enjoy walking is the Harborne Walkway which I finally walked the parts I hadn't done in the summer
I know it's awesome how much there is to see around this area I do wanna go to cotwall end nature reserve supposed to be good . The canal up by b&q is a great walk then all the way over to the Dowery dell
I live in Old Hill and the colliery is not far from me and I've never really been aware of it so might go and explore it. I feel like there's a lot of places like this that most people aren't aware of I spent a lot of time in Haden Hill Park as a kid and in the 1980s went to Haden Hill School which is on Barr's Road, but the school is long gone
As someone as mentioned that is an Inspection pit put in years later after collery was closed. The big circular concrete section you were standing on was in fact the cap on the pit., the wheel section you looked into and thought was an entrace to the pit was a water soak away and the wheel was infact a water wheel, which worked some of the machinery in early 1900's. I visited this a few times as a young lad as a relative worked there and gave us a walk around. My mother owned a pub in cradley heath the holybush a banks and hansons pub. You would like the old chain makers in cradley it has quite a good history, another pub we had as a child growing up was the Boat inn, bumblehole netherton. Great history and resident ghost which later became an office but still had strange goings on. Best walk is the saltwells, around old quarry and pub in that area of netherton if you want wild life. But tividale and all its foundries was best area of the black country and really was black with all the smoke pouring out of the chimneys. Beans factory which produced nearly every car engine part in UK in tipton but was turned into housing, and tunnels like the netherton tunnel or dudley tunnel giving access to many great canal walks. Black country will always have great history and a language to boot.
Cheers for sharing this I didn't realise that about the building with the wheel learn new things I enjoy these comments helps out learning more about the history . I'll have a look at that be interesting to see the old chain makers I'm gonna do more history over the summer on the area
At 7:20 that looks like a servicing bay with an inspection pit; you can see the shoulders around the edges that would support sleepers when the pit was not in use. The infrastructure of the building looks way more modern that the other buildings. I would say it was some kind of vehicle garage/workshop.
Interesting that tbh guess you could be right there I see what you mean most inspection pits I've seen are similar would have thaught this could have been used when Dudley council used the land think they stored trucks there at one point from a photo I seen a while back
Another cracking video mate, when you showed the gun barrel, estate Venom Arms was in the 1st building on the left, lovely to see Haden Hill house , me and the wife got married there in 2004, we got married in our fifties ( late starters ) keep on with the great video's
@@drewsoutdooradventures01 i was born in West Brom then moved to Stourbridge, always loved exploring the Black Country, can't do it now as i moved to West Sussex about 15 years ago, so your vids really make me feel home sick
See from the Express & Star “Serious concerns' have been raised concerning plans to transform a derelict Halesowen colliery into an industrial park.” All the best, Peter.
Enjoyed this one thank you 😄
Thanks bud
Thanks drew another super video much appreciated
Thanks James much appreciate it 🙂
With Haden Hill Park, Mousesweet Brook Local Nature Reserve, Saltwells, Codsall Coppice, Corngreaves and Leasowes, there are so many open spaces to explore
One area I didn't know about until a few years ago is the stretch of canal into Coombeswood which comes out near B&Q on Mucklow Hill
Somewhere where I do enjoy walking is the Harborne Walkway which I finally walked the parts I hadn't done in the summer
I know it's awesome how much there is to see around this area I do wanna go to cotwall end nature reserve supposed to be good . The canal up by b&q is a great walk then all the way over to the Dowery dell
I live in Old Hill and the colliery is not far from me and I've never really been aware of it so might go and explore it. I feel like there's a lot of places like this that most people aren't aware of
I spent a lot of time in Haden Hill Park as a kid and in the 1980s went to Haden Hill School which is on Barr's Road, but the school is long gone
I agree tbf it's why I love doing local videos learn some new places from time to time bud also the history is amazing
As someone as mentioned that is an Inspection pit put in years later after collery was closed. The big circular concrete section you were standing on was in fact the cap on the pit., the wheel section you looked into and thought was an entrace to the pit was a water soak away and the wheel was infact a water wheel, which worked some of the machinery in early 1900's. I visited this a few times as a young lad as a relative worked there and gave us a walk around. My mother owned a pub in cradley heath the holybush a banks and hansons pub. You would like the old chain makers in cradley it has quite a good history, another pub we had as a child growing up was the Boat inn, bumblehole netherton. Great history and resident ghost which later became an office but still had strange goings on. Best walk is the saltwells, around old quarry and pub in that area of netherton if you want wild life. But tividale and all its foundries was best area of the black country and really was black with all the smoke pouring out of the chimneys. Beans factory which produced nearly every car engine part in UK in tipton but was turned into housing, and tunnels like the netherton tunnel or dudley tunnel giving access to many great canal walks. Black country will always have great history and a language to boot.
Cheers for sharing this I didn't realise that about the building with the wheel learn new things I enjoy these comments helps out learning more about the history . I'll have a look at that be interesting to see the old chain makers I'm gonna do more history over the summer on the area
Excellent footage drew 👍👍my (folks loved watching this)
Thanks Gaz appreciate it 🙂👍
Another fascinating insight on the history of the Black Country. The accompanying music nicely matches the video. Thank you.
Hi there thanks for reply much appreciate it I love this music I found in TH-cam studio gonna get out in week again go do another one
At 7:20 that looks like a servicing bay with an inspection pit; you can see the shoulders around the edges that would support sleepers when the pit was not in use. The infrastructure of the building looks way more modern that the other buildings. I would say it was some kind of vehicle garage/workshop.
Interesting that tbh guess you could be right there I see what you mean most inspection pits I've seen are similar would have thaught this could have been used when Dudley council used the land think they stored trucks there at one point from a photo I seen a while back
Great video 👍📸
Thanks bud
Another cracking video mate, when you showed the gun barrel, estate Venom Arms was in the 1st building on the left, lovely to see Haden Hill house , me and the wife got married there in 2004, we got married in our fifties ( late starters ) keep on with the great video's
Cheers bud thaught you would have loved the gun barrel included there's lots of history this way
@@drewsoutdooradventures01 i was born in West Brom then moved to Stourbridge, always loved exploring the Black Country, can't do it now as i moved to West Sussex about 15 years ago, so your vids really make me feel home sick
Great video, as always 👍
Thanks bud much appreciate it 👍
Very interesting video thanks Drew
Thank you 😄📸
See from the Express & Star “Serious concerns' have been raised concerning plans to transform a derelict Halesowen colliery into an industrial park.”
All the best, Peter.
I read about that tbh hopefully everything gets preserved if they do and not destroyed - midlands outdoors
Fab video. I think I'll have to give that Hawne Colliery a try but I haven't a clue where it is though, can I get there via Haden Hill Park?
It's just up road on hayseech walking from gun barrel by the corngreaves nature reserve
@@drewsoutdooradventures01 cheers Drew, I'll have to give it a try this weekend
Hi Drew!! We were at Haden Hill y'day.
How did you manage to sneak into the collery??
Hi Helen , You can walk right onto the land on a path by the road