IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 6GW

Looking down the slope of the hill towards the racecourse and the sandstone ridge at Tettenhall. In past years the feature on the landscape would have been the three chimney stacks at Courtaulds.

Dunstall Hill Industrial Estate occupies the site of the former GWR Stafford Road Works. The works originally built locomotives until production was transferred to Swindon in 1908 but it remained an important railway workshop for heavy repairs and maintenance. The works eventually closed in the Beeching era.

The electrified section of line continues over the Dunstall Viaduct to the West Coast Traincare Depot at Oxley Sidings. The land on the right was formerly the GWR's Stafford Road Works.

The view of the junction with Dunstall Avenue in Wolverhampton.

This memorial dated 1901 marks the site of Lady Wulfruna's well. The Lady Wulfruna endowed the Collegiate church of Wolverhampton with a Dean and Prebendaries in AD994, giving her name to the town: Wulfrun's Heanton (High Town). The tap and drinking cup that once graced the well are a distant memory to only the oldest residents of the borough. A statue to the Lady Wulfrun can be found near St Peter's Church.

From the railway bridge.

The view from Gorsebrook Road to the viaduct of the Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Railway line.

The blue brick viaduct carries the main line north from Wolverhampton towards Crewe. The area south of Gorsebrook Road was the Stafford Road Works of the GWR from 1849. Between 1859 and 1908 over 800 locomotives were built on this site. The workshops finally closed in 1964. The rail track here was put in at great expense to remember this trade. I am told that when the circus came to town in the 1950s that the elephants were housed in the grey building. They were walked here from the nearby railway halt.