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Brierley Hill, Round Oak, Harts Hill, Level Street, Merry Hill, Quarry Bank, Mill Street, The Delph, Silver End and Hawbush - Britain in Old Photographs (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
Ned Williams, The Mount Pleasant Local History Group
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In their second look at the history and development of Brierley
Hill, Ned Williams and the Mount Pleasant Local History Group turn
their attention to the areas of Round Oak, Harts Hill, Level
Street, Merry Hill, Quarry Bank, Mill Street, The Delph, Silver End
and Hawbush. The needs of industry formed these settlements, but
once established, they became home to a vast number of schools,
churches and chapels, shops and centres of entertainment - as well
as a huge number of pubs. The collapse of the metal-based
industries and the spread of housing has changed the landscape, but
identifying these communities and recognising what went on there in
the past helps us understand the development of Brierley Hill.
Brierley Hill is one of the heavily industrialised towns that make
up the region known as the Black Country. Like many such towns it
can easily be divided into many smaller communities that, while
being part of Brierley Hill, have quite an independent existence
and identity of their own. This book sets out on a journey across
Brierley Hill that begins at the parish church and ends at one of
the principal crossroads in the town centre, and then we make our
way around the satellite communities of Brockmoor, Bromley and
Pensnett. We find ourselves in a world that was dominated by many
local pits where coal and fireclay were extracted, much of this
coal being used in the manufacture of iron. When steel came along,
Brierley Hill became the home to a large and important steelworks
at Round Oak. Other companies came into the area to manufacture
products using steel and some became very large local employers and
integral parts of the community. Large scale industry and mining
may have gone but the communities they spawned survive and this
books provides a glimpse of the shops, pubs, schools, chapels and
churches and other facilities that once made each 'village' so
self-sufficient, intertwined with their railways and canals of
industry. With over 200 historic and fascinating photographs, this
book is a must-have for locals and visitors alike, capturing
Brierley Hill as it used to be and how it has been shaped into the
place that it is today.
This is Ned Williams and the Mount Pleasant Local History Group's
third book about Quarry Bank and this time they take a fresh look
at this little Black Country township, plus the even smaller place
next door - simply known as The Delph. The area covered is part of
the modern Metropolitan Borough of Dudley - the capital of the
Black Country. All human life was to be found in these communities
of colliers, brickyard workers and bucket-bashers before the days
when motorists roared by on their way to the Merry Hill Shopping
Centre. This collection of old photographs will make you pause
awhile and explore some of the old shops, chapels, canals, vanished
industrial enterprises, workshops and byways you never knew
existed.
QUARRY BANK PAST & PRESENT is the second book produced by The
History Press devoted to the recent history of this Black Country
township. Two hundred and fifty pictures bring you a glimpse of the
many diverse facets of life in Quarry Bank. It may be a small
place, but everything within its boundaries is experienced in great
variety: of pubs, schools, workplaces, churches, landscapes and
land use. The Mount Pleasant Local History Group, led by Ned
Williams, have been exploring the past and present life and times
of Quarry Bank for several years. The group has often been
frustrated in its search for local photographs, yet once the
photographs found have been assembled in a collection such as this
the group feels it has something worth sharing. We hope you will
delight in glimpses of carnivals, school days, pigeon flying,
Sunday schools, shops and people. The past and the present are
connected in so many ways, and in a small community so many
people's lives are interconnected. In the 'real world' of Quarry
Bank every part of the township is connected to other parts, often
by a mysterious network of footpaths. We feel confident you will be
able to 'connect' with many pictures in this book: plunge into this
treasure island called Quarry Bank.
Brierley Hill was one of those Black Country towns which was
identified by the work that went on within its boundaries. Everyone
knows that Brierley Hill made steel and sausages and fine pieces of
glassware. These activities are now in the past but the memory of
such work lingers on while the town wrestles with the problems of
regeneration. This book pays plenty of attention to steel, pork
products and glass, but also provides a glimpse of the many other
aspects of work that have made Brierley Hill such a busy place.
People worked in local government and in public sector work which
maintained the life of the town, while others worked in retailing
and in the provision of transport. While looking at the world of
work in Brierley Hill we have taken account of the many types of
employment that were to be found in its satellites: the hollow-ware
industry of Quarry Bank, the brick-making that went on in The
Delph, Silver End and Pensnett, the iron trades in Brockmoor and
Harts Hill, and the work on the infrastructure that served all
these places. The arrival of the Merry Hill Shopping Centre on
Brierley Hill's doorstep has given retailing a new dominance in
terms of providing local employment, but the picture of work in the
twenty-first century is still emerging. Who knows what will bring
Brierley Hill fame and fortune in the future?
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