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Amazing that those shops at Bentley Bridge have only been up what 30 years? I Remember walking home from Atlantis Nightclub back in 1999. Wednesfield Way was still being constructed so it was still a building site, my friend & I walked down it at 3am still high on e's! Going back even further to around 1975, I was only about 9 or 10. My friends and I used to walk all over the wastelands over there in the summer holidays. I Remember lots of old railway lines that went as far as Wolverhampton one way and Willenhall the other (over Blue Fly and past Willenhall Park before Noose Lane was modernised). The canal went under Neachells Lane and down what is now Steelpark Way where the steel works is. Theres still an old canal bridge still standing & lock gates on the old Corus Steel site (later Tata Steel), its called 'Hills Bridge (No 10) Bentley Canal' built in 1850 and in use to 1961. When the land was built on and the road put in the bridge was restored. Theres a blue plaque on it now. Amazing how much its changed in so little time. Just a shame people didnt have access to 24hr cameras like they do today as theres very little photographic evidence of what it used to be like. When we were kids it was rumored to be a 'war bump' and there were old WW2 weapons buried on the site and where the solar panels are now.
From Australia, Britain certainly was a run-down filthy hovel back when those old photos were taken, I thought Britain was in a bad way today, no it looks 10000% better according to those photos.
I wonder sometimes : what did they actually do the hippies once at Matala ? There was nothing there save a few houses. I’d get bored out of my mind just hanging around singing songs and smoking weed all day…Doing nothing is just fine once you’re retired but when that young and full of energy ?
Great town , great brightonions . Best place to live in while student or retired .I lived in Brighton when I was a student between 1975 and 1979 .it is like my second home .
A couple of points: The international intervention came BECAUSE the Greek government sent Vassos and his men to Crete; the European intervention was not the reason for the Greek army being sent. The illustration used in the video of Kayales and the flag, is taken from a report in the British magazine 'The Graphic.' The account in the magazine suggests that Kayales took down the flag rather than raised it up, and this was the reason that the bombardment stopped. The article stated: ‘ A correspondent on board on of the British men-of war lying off Canea writes: “ The men-of -war lying off Canea opened fire on the insurgents’ position as a result of the conference between the senior offices of the warships. Whilst the shells from the German, Austrian, Russian, and English ships were bursting all round the insurgents’ position on the heights above the village of Halepa, outside Canea, one of the men went to the flagstaff and hauled down the flag of Greece. This was regarded as a sign of submission and the men-of-war ceased firing. It is believed that the man who hauled down the flag was killed by the bursting of a shell on the left side of the position. No more firing from the insurgents took place that day, though they re-hoisted the flag shortly afterwards.”’ The title under the illustration is: SUBMISSION TO THE POWERS: HAULING DOWN THE GREEK FLAG DURING THE BOMBARDMENT OF CANEA. FROM A SKETCH BY A. C. RANSOM, R. N. Supplement to The Graphic 6 March 1897. The suggestion that the flag was being hauled down rather than hoisted up is also made in by an eye-witness writing in the magazine The Globe on 4 March 1897. The suggestion that the Council of European Admirals decided to recommend autonomy for Crete as a result of Kayales' actions is pure fantasy. The subject of the status of Crete had been under discussion for some time, not only by the Council, but by the Powers' ambassadors in Constantinople and the various Powers' Foreign Ministers. The act of a single individual, no matter how heroic, was not going to influence the geo-political considerations concerning the relationship of Crete and the Ottoman Empire. It's highly unlikely that the disciplined seamen on any of the European ships would have cheered and applauded during the action of firing on an enemy. The only reports of the European sailors cheering Kayales appear to come from Cretan sources, none of whom would have been anywhere near the European ships. Finally, there is no record of the Greek ironclad the Hydra being present off Crete at this time. The only Greek warships that had been in Cretan waters had been the sloop Sphacteria and four torpedo boats which arrived on 12th February 1897 and left a few days later when it was made clear to them that any attempt by them to interfere with Ottoman troop movements would be met by force from the vessels of the Powers.
