IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
West End Avenue, SMETHWICK, B66 1RE
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to West End Avenue, B66 1RE by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (26 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Cottage Garden.
A property in West End Avenue Smethwick..
Image: © David Taylor
Taken: 18 Jul 2008
0.05 miles
3
The Ivy Bush, Smethwick
A pub between Oldbury and Smethwick.
Image: © David Weston
Taken: 11 Oct 2015
0.14 miles
5
B4169 St Paul's Road West Smethwick Crossroads at The Ivy Bush
Image: © Roy Hughes
Taken: 1 Jan 2018
0.15 miles
7
Footpath off Oldbury Road, West Smethwick
Leading to Chance Drive via the ends of Orchid Close and Melrose Place.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 19 Nov 2022
0.16 miles
9
Shetland Drive
Despite the sign on the right, ahead is Shetland Drive, though that's not what the street sign says...
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 9 Oct 2008
0.18 miles
10
Malcolm X was here: corner of Marshall Street and West Park Road, Smethwick
Since 2012 the house on the corner of Park Road and Marshall Street, Smethwick, has carried a blue plaque, which reads:
Nubian Jak Community Trust
Malcolm X
1925-1965
International civil rights campaigner. Advocated desegregated housing in Smethwick with his visit to Marshall Street in 1965.
Recognize
Sandwell MBC
African Caribbean Self Help Organisation
Indian Workers Association (GB)
Sandwell MBC (Metropolitan Borough Council) is the successor to the County Borough of Smethwick, which at the time of Malcolm X's visit, was proposing to compulsorily purchase every house on Marshall Street to let to white people only. The previous year, the Conservative candidate Peter Griffiths had won the parliamentary seat on an openly racist election slogan and a policy platform of racial segregation. Malcolm X, who was on a tour of Europe and speaking at Birmingham University, was invited by the Indian Workers' Association to visit Smethwick, where he spoke to local people and experienced local conditions, including being excluded from a pub which operated a whites-only 'colour bar' policy: see Image
Malcolm X was assassinated nine days after the visit, shortly after his return to the USA. The council subsequently abandoned its segregationist policy; Marshall Street is now an integrated, multicultural street. See the blog of Verso Books https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/5046-malcolm-x-and-the-midlands for an account of the visit, also the site of the Nubian Jak Trust https://nubianjak.com/malcolm-x-plaque-february-2012/ .
Image: © A J Paxton
Taken: 15 Apr 2023
0.18 miles