Crossing keeper's cottage at Bursnip Road
Introduction
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Crossing keeper's cottage at Bursnip Road
Image: © John Winder Taken: Unknown
This building was originally the wages office and "truck shop" of the Holly Bank Colliery, which was served by a railway line which crossed the road on the level roughly where the footpath sign and driveway are. The rather fabulous signal box / crossing house is a later addition to the original building. The house was derelict for years, and (to quote from Ned Williams's excellent "Railways of the Black Country", which is where most of the information in this caption is lifted from) "the building has just lasted into the 80s but has probably deteriorated beyond possible preservation." In early 1993, when I visited and took this, I was surprised and pleased to see that sympathetic reconstruction had just been completed. John M's Image shows the building as it appeared in 2006, 13 years after my visit; Tim Marshall's Image shows it as it was nine years before!
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Image Location
Latitude
52.62682
Longitude
-2.046345