IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Stony Lane, SMETHWICK, B67 7QN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Stony Lane, B67 7QN 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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Image Listing (123 Images Found)
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Coral, 96-98 High Street
One of the local branches of the well-known national chain of bookmakers. Located on the corner of High Street and Stony Lane.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
2
Smethwick Library, High Street
According to the website of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, this building was originally built in 1866 as a public hall. It has also been used as an employment exchange. The conversion to library purposes in the 1920's included the installation of an attractive stained glass window. The building was extensively renovated in 1984, and it now includes the Community History & Archives Service.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
3
Blue Gates Hotel (1), 100 High Street
Although the present building was built in 1932, there were two earlier inns on the same site, with the same name. The earliest of these was in existence by the late 18th century. The site is opposite where there used to be a toll-gate, and it is thought the name may have come from the colour of the barrier.
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
4
Blue Gates Hotel (2), 100 High Street
The large and impressive Blue Gates Hotel dates from 1932, but is built on the site of earlier inns of the same name. It is on the corner of High Street and Stony Lane. Now a free house, it was at one time a Mitchell & Butlers house, and their name etc. is carved into a stone above the main door. See:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M%2BB_Blue_Gates_pub_Smethwick.JPG
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Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.04 miles
5
The Red Fort Social Club, 80 High Street
It looks like a pub, and provides similar facilities to a pub, but this is a club. Located on the corner of the High Street and Ford Street.
Next door is Firkins, a long established bakers.
Image: © P L Chadwick
Taken: 16 Aug 2010
0.05 miles
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Blue Gates Hotel
The present Blue Gates Hotel on Smethwick High Street was built in the 1930s on the site of an earlier hotel of the same name. Nearby used to be a toll house (the toll house building still stands Image) on the Birmingham to Wolverhampton turnpike road and it is thought the name Blue Gates originated from gates on the road, however, it is thought more likely that the name comes from Blue Gates Farm which was here before the land was developed. Reputedly in 1965 when Malcolm X visited Smethwick he visited this hotel, just nine days before he was assassinated in the USA.
Image: © Philip Halling
Taken: 14 Jul 2018
0.07 miles
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Smethwick High Street as seen from the railway
From the railway (on a grey autumn afternoon), traffic on Tollhouse Way partly obscures the buildings on Smethwick High Street, the north side of which has largely been cleared to make way for the dual carriageway. Smethwick Library peeps into shot on the left, whilst the cream building on the left is a surviving toll-house. The DPD lorry probably originates from the nearby depot in Oldbury.
Image: © Christopher Hilton
Taken: 26 Nov 2014
0.07 miles
