Netherton to Brierley hill | Exploring the black country - S3 - Episode 2 

Thank you so much for this lad, it's so kind of you. I'm 75 now and worked in the mills in the Black Country. You are so proud of our history and it's wonderful to see. All the best momon.

Another great video. I dunno what it is with the The Black Country but our achievements are seldom celebrated and the local councils and the education system seem increasingly keen to bury our regional history, so kudos for bringing this stuff to our attention. Interesting fact about Round Oak Steel works, it's actually the cover art Depeche Mode's Some Great Reward album.

The metal on the chimney at bumble hole is a lightning rod and bands to keep the structure stable

Another interesting fact about brewins tunnel is just to the left as you are heading towards merry hill is another tunnel as the canal used to fork off before the reservoir was constructed.

The metal bars around the brick work on Cobbs engine house are known as tie bars and are common to old buildings in the Black country. In particular on or near mine workings and are to protect against subsidence. Keep up the good work really interesting 👍

My dad and his dad used to work at round oak my dad use drive overhead crane

Cradley chain makers made chains for titanic, they had a piece of it on their outside office wall building in cradley. HINGley not hinge ley netherton was just that a testing factory. They did make smaller anchors which there is some on the coast wales way in museum. probably a link to be found somewhere on internet.

Absolutely bostin mate from a Derby End bloke

Really enjoyed this, used to visit Netherton a lot as a kid brings back so many memories Thank you

Great video just a bit gutted about the crooked house disgusting inside job definitely the way it was bulldozed less the 48 hours after the fire heartbreaking

Thanks again for a great video really interesting.

Its a bloody lightning conductor !! The rods going round the stacks are shorings to help stop the lower bricks cracking and giving way. I remember part of the site used as a tip and there's all sorts of rubbish underneath it. The council has filled in many of the little ponds that used to be home to so called 'Protected Newts and frogs'. The council didn't give a toss in the old days and probablystill don't since they added Pedmore and other tory enclaves onto the Borough. I used to laugh at the Dudley town motto, quin est prospicit (wise is he that looks ahead), talking about hypocrisy. I worked at Lloyd's British testing in the 1970s, using the big 750 ton test machine. We used to test the anchors used on the oil rigs in the North Sea and also the manhole covers and torpedo slings used in submarines and the big wire ropes for the suspension bridges. We also proof tested vessels like boilers and steam engines. My main job was opening the ends of the wire ropes to fit the resin or zink wedge caps so they could be stretched using an hydraulic ram to test their safe working load often tested to destruction. There was also a heated pit full of tar which was used for dunking the ships anchores in to black them. I think Cyril Beech steel stockholders bought the place and now own it but he kept the original 750 ton testing machine in place for prosperity. The Black country was known for coal mainly because of the 30 ft seam which can still be mined near the surface in places near the plague pit on the north west side of Netherton Church. Iron ore deposits were also close by but it was the discovery of coking the coal in the retorts which was used primarily in the iron smelting that made Dudley famous.

Wonderful Video

Great video enjoyed

When your in Netherton church your standing by my dad's grave

The unmarked graves are to the left of you on top of hill which were fenced of years ago

We all need too stand together n put this wrong write