IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Gorsty Hill Road, ROWLEY REGIS, B65 0EX
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Gorsty Hill Road, B65 0EX by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (22 Images Found)
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The Beech Tree: with any luck it'll never reopen
This awful pub changed hands at least half a dozen times to my knowledge in the 30 years I lived fairly near to it. It's boarded up again and I'm not surprised as a J.D Wetherspoons is within walking distance.
Image: © Row17
Taken: 11 Jun 2009
0.07 miles
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The Beech Tree, Blackheath
Sadly, boarded up pubs are a common sight nowadays and the Beech Tree has been like this for over two years. From all accounts it did not enjoy a good reputation in the years prior to closure, so perhaps it is no loss.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 6 Feb 2011
0.07 miles
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The former Beech Tree public house, 111 Gorsty Hill Road, Blackheath, Rowley Regis
Located on the corner of Gorsty Hill Road and Beeches Road, this building used to be a public house known as the Beech Tree. It was latterly owned by Daniel Thwaites, the Blackburn brewers. Unfortunately in the last decades of its life it gained a reputation as a rough house, where if you were unlucky you were more likely to receive a punch than a pint. It is very difficult for a pub to recover from this type of reputation, so it is perhaps no surprise that Daniel Thwaites put it up for sale some years ago. What the outcome was isn't clear. The windows are no longer boarded but it certainly isn't in use as a pub and probably never will be again. See also Row17's photograph showing the boarded up pub still with its signage:- Image
Interestingly there is in the Blackheath area another pub of the same name. To distinguish them, locals referred to that one as the "Little Beech" and the one in Gorsty Hill Road as the "Big Beech". Records show that the pub was certainly here in the 1870's, although possibly it wasn't this actual building, which doesn't look old enough, unless it was perhaps externally refaced.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.08 miles
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Start of Gorsty Hill Road at Beeches Road Crossroads
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 18 Dec 2017
0.08 miles
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Basra Superstore & Off Licence, 71 Halesowen Street, Blackheath, Rowley Regis
Located on the corner of Halesowen Street and Cocksheds Lane, this is a local convenience store with off-licence.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.09 miles
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The Flame Community Church (1), 75 Beeches Road, Blackheath, Rowley Regis
The Flame Community Church is the result of a merger between two churches, one an AOG or Assemblies of God church, and the other an Elim Pentecostal church. The main church building is in Cardale Street Blackheath.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.13 miles
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The Flame Community Church (2) - notice board, 75 Beeches Road, Blackheath, Rowley Regis
The Sunday services are held at the main church in Cardale Street Blackheath, but some activities during the week are held here in the Beeches Road building.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 11 May 2014
0.13 miles