FORUMS
| Forum Home > West Bromwich Stories > SOME GREAT WEST BROMWICH CLIPS | ||
|---|---|---|
|
west-bromwich-photos
Site OwnerPosts: 123 |
If you click the little square at the bottom of the player it will open up the clips bigger, many thanks to James for the clips
Explosion by the Navigation pub, Friar park Estate 1962 http://www.macearchive.org/Media.html?Title=4890# Ballroom Dancing at the Gala baths 1959 (Silent) http://www.macearchive.org/Media.html?Title=2960# ATV Dance at the Adelphi 1959 http://www.macearchive.org/Media.html?Title=2926#
| |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 117 |
YESSS !!! What crackers !!!
I remember that explosion, I was only a kid and I remember me and me dad getting on the bus to have a look, it had Worldwide viewing !!
1962, it can't be that long back ??? | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 148 |
Greetings from a balmy, warm New Zealand Summer !!
Those clips are just fantastic !!!!!!!!!! The posh end went to the Gala and the riff raff left went to the Adelphi The Adelphi was always a bit more rowdier than the posh end Gala, but what fantastic memories
Great clips, this site gets better & better !! | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 223 |
I was not far away from that either when it happened out wirh my Mom She told me about it many times. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 93 |
i was working at Lavender's that day,up by the Golden Lion,and we heard the explosion,apparently a chemical truck blew up,it caused one of my house windows to fall out | |
| ||
|
west-bromwich-photos
Site OwnerPosts: 123 |
Well, believe it or not I was 4 days old when the explosion happened !
Sorry to say Bill, but the Golden Lion has now gone too, flattened ! | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 223 |
And the Manor House has closed over the road. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 93 |
what's going on?,is there anything left? mad | |
--
| ||
|
Member Posts: 27 |
Not really. Bingo hall on stone cross has been demolished and the flats have remained half finished for over 3 months now. My great nan lived 4 doors down from the houses which eventually got demolished (due to the truck). the explosion blew the windows out and made her budgie loose its feathers!! | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 223 |
Millfields in Rydding Lane closes today so I am informed
Sow and Pigs on Hill Top shuts soon
Fountain on Holloway Bank boarded up
Junction in Witton Lane boarded up
King Edward on corner of Church Lane gone
Woodman by the Baggies gone
Turks Head in Wednesbury town shut
Bush on Claypit Lane long gone
Navvy on Walsall Road gone
Spinney on Charlemont closed the last I heard
Price of Beer in the Boozer £ 2.50 plus a pint
Cost of 4 pint cans in the Offy the same or less
Smoking ban hasn`t helped either | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 117 |
Are you telling me the Manor House has shut, NEVER !!!!
Millfields, was that the one before the School on the right (Wodensborough?) or the one after, I know one of them is the Millfields The King Edward, I am sure there was a murder in there years ago.
Opposite the King Edward, more or less opposite the Ebeneezer there was another pub which went around 30 years ago, what was the name of that one ? Jeff Astle used it regulary | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 223 |
If you are coming from Wednesbury the pub n the right before the school is the Croft, the Millfields is under Ackerdock bridge as it`s called just a bit further up on the right by the islands.
There was a shooting in the Edward a few years back, the D.J. got a stray bullet but not murdered unless there`s been another.
The shot man Mick now has a car sales pitch in Wednesbury directly opposite the Pretty Bricks pub ( Coachmakers arms ) on the Holyhead road. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 27 |
I was told last night that 'The Brunswick' in wednesbury is due to close and be replaced by another apartment block. | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 19 |
As a new member I'm just catching up with all the great topics on here.
That clip from the Gala Baths is particularly poignant as I was there that night with my sister and my parents for the Ballroom Dancing Championships. Noele Gordon is presenting the prizes and I managed to get her autograph on a scrap of paper which I still have.
Happy days!! | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 44 |
The Sow and Pigs worn front step -my father in law helped to wear that away Turks Head in Lower High Street Wednesbury was another good house too in its day, it was just up the road from The Nags Head which was taken down some years ago now. Wasn't the Millfields turned into a club of some sort? Thats a huge building. The decline of The Manor House saddens me greatly I have a close personal attachment to this old place. Von Brisbane | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 44 |
I remember the explosion too. I lived on the 4th floor of Bermuda Mansions (the block near to the canal. I must have been off school for some reason and the windows rattled and there was a very loud bang, frightened me as I was only a kid then. It wasn't until Dad came home that we knew what had gone on as I recall. I remember the aftermath though by the Navigation - devastating. ~~~~~ The ballroom dancing. My Mom and Dad were in there somewhere, not competing I don't think but Mom was a wondeful dancer and Dad was no slouch either. I was only 8 but I remember how Mom dressed when Dad was taking her out to dance. It was always a very special occasion. Von | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 78 |
Re the explosion if it had happened under the navigation bridge has anyone calculated how much canal water woulld have been lost. ? Its a heck of a long way in each direction before you came to a lock. john mason | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 4 |
''Riff-raff'' eh? Well, I only went to the Adelphi once, wearing a brand new suit from Brooks Brothers, in Wednesbury. My first ever made-to-measure suit! If I say so myself, I was immaculate! However, as I was walking through the crowded dance-floor I became inadvertently involved in a scuffle between two other blokes and, in the general melee, had my right sleeve torn from my new suit! I was so utterly incensed that I knocked-flat the one, and bloodied the nose of the other! Then they both ran off and I was left looking like a tramp! Still fuming, I stomped-off home and had to face the condemnation of my father; who never truly believed that I'd been wholly innocent!
Foot-note: I'd gone to see 'Jimmy Cliff' ...he was playing ''Wonderfull World, Beautiful People'' as I left! Yeah, right! | |
| ||
|
Member Posts: 148 |
Nice story John, just about sums it up ! There were some great acts at the Adelphi in the middle 60s, from the Stones to Beatles, to the Who,
I remember seeing the Who there in the middle of winter in the 60s and I walked from my house in Hill Top and the snow was past ankle deep and when I got there the snow was an inch thick on my coat but when I got there to see the great Daltery singing "My generation", it hadn't long come out and the atmosphere was eletric but you always felt on edge at the Adelphi I also remember seeing The Supremes there one Saturday night and the following weekend we went to see this 'unknown' group and it was the Stranglers, but my god what a racket they were, they later on became famous during the Punks in the 70s Mom & Dad used to go and see Joe Loss at the Gala ....bit different to The Who & the Stranglers ! | |
| ||
His Mom owned an old house right next door, it was split into 2 homes and that is where my husband was born in 1950.You must login to post.