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Stafford Street, WALSALL, WS2 8ED

This photo taken from a high vantage point overlooks Walsall Town Centre and beyond.

A slightly run down area, just north of the Walsall ring road.

The stables of Victoria Corn Mills, Long Acre Street, Walsall. The paved floor and stalls are still in place. Exterior view: Image

A well preserved example of a Victorian-era industrial seed and corn mill operation, in its original location and building - much of the former machinery remains intact inside the building, although the coal-fired engine and steam boiler have been removed. Grade II listed https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101252580-victoria-mill-birchills-leamore-ward#.YOsa4-hKjIU & https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1252580 in 1987.

Victoria Corn Mills, Long Acre Street, Walsall. The projecting gable is a lucam (or lucarne) https://new.millsarchive.org/glossary/a-z-glossary/?action=show&which=3472 which would have protected the hoist used to raise sacks to the first floor. The doorway on the first floor is to load sacks directly into wagons. There is a weighbridge below it, set where the wagons would have been loaded, a good example of Victorian efficiency. Notice also the rather nice cast iron letter box set into the wall at the side of the entrance, still bearing the name of the original miller, J F Dolman. (Description cribbed from Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/61649287@N03/5940083620 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/61649287@N03/5940136716/ .) Part of the building is now occupied by Urban Hax http://urbanhax.com/ a makerspace. Interior view: Image

This public house is usually known as The Pretty Bricks because of the appearance of some of the bricks used in its construction. Its alternative name is the New Inn, but it has also in recent years been known as The Tap & Spile. Image

A nice friendly traditional public house in a back street of Walsall. It has had the good fortune to now be run by Black Country Ales, a micro-brewery, which has a small chain of pubs, mainly in the area known as the Black Country. The pub has also been known as the New Inn and the Tap & Spile. See the photograph by Geoff Pick dating from April 2007 Image Image

Storm Ciara, reputedly the worst for seven years, was in full swing sending gusts of wind and rain squalls down the street but at least this pub offered a dry and welcoming refuge. It dates from 1845 and is more properly known as the New Inn but takes its popular name from the glazed bricks around the front ground floor windows. It is now part of the Black Country Ales portfolio.

The Crown Inn, Long Acre Street, Walsall