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Circling the drain
I’ve long held an interest in why Clayhanger village stopped flooding. This may seem like an odd preoccupation, but please bear with me. For decades the small, low lying settlement west of Brownhills...
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Going with the flow
In the modern world of asphalted roads, acres of hardstanding and housing estates by the square mile, we tend to forget that our landscape is riddled with lost brooks, springs, natural drains and...
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Fighting a losing battle
Every now and then, something comes through whilst compiling the blog that stuns me, and pulls me up short. It's happened twice recently - firstly with Chris Pattison's wonderful 1952 Walsall Observer...
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Challenging landscapes
Today, I've mostly been trawling the paper mapping record for Clayhanger, in order to throw a little more light on the issues it faced in the post war years - debate about subsidence and flooding and...
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Anyone for tennis?
Further to the great material sent in by Marion Jones, relating to the lost pumping station on The Spot at Clayhanger, she also sent me some interesting photos of the gardens of the Jones House in...
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