'People' of Walsall Wood
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'People' of Walsall Wood
Image: © John M Taken: 28 Jan 2011
New public sculpture in the former mining village. Each figure has a comment even Scruff the dog. My favourites are 'Its only when you step outside the box, you realise what has changed. Buildings have been built or been knocked down, things like that, but when you are within that community; you change with it. You move with it.' 'Our neighbour used to keep pigs. 'Er only ad one at a time. They was always called Billy. We always cried when Billy the Pig was done in but we always ate im.' My mother's family were miners in the Coppice Pit and other pits in the Brownhills area.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.626809
Longitude
-1.930818