EAW002078 ENGLAND (1946). A new commercial building on the site of Swan Farm, West Bromwich, 1946

Anderson Shelter?

Barges/narrow boats carrying coal

GWR steam locomotive - appears to be a 2-8-0 tank engine; build too heavy for a 2-6-2 - with a 'Toad' guard's van attached

Wednesbury Old Canal, Balls Hill Branch. The Wednesbury Canal was part of the first phase of the Birmingham Canal (the first around the Black Country or Birmingham). It was authorised in the 1768 Birmingham Canal Act as a major branch of the Birmingham Canal and was completed and delivering coal to Birmingham on 6 November 1769. The Balls Hill branch of the Birmingham Canal,built, like the main canal, under an Act of 1768,was opened from Spon Lane to 'Wednesbury Hollow-way' in 1769, three years before the completion of the main canal. It provided the pits of the Wednesbury area with an immediate outlet to Birmingham. The terminus was west of the main road at Hill Top near Golds Green, where coal was being raised at that time. It was described c. 1830 as of little use because a part of it had collapsed as a result of mining subsidence. Much of the canal was abandoned in stages between 1954 and 1960 and filled in. From: 'West Bromwich: Communications', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp. 11-14. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36158

St. Vincent Crescent under construction

Ebenezer Street

signalbox