There is an excellent site called Britain from Above – LINK On here you can see old photo’s taken from the air and it is searchable. So I searched for Great Barr/Pheasey etc and found this photo from 1936 And from 1950 As you can see it shows what they horribly called the ‘Great Barr…
When the 20MPH zone was mentioned and agreed I said I would send off a FOI regarding the consultation, we now have the figures. Unfortunately I have no comments from this and have asked for that. However the figures show an overwhelming backing for the plans. 2216 people responded to the survey at a return…
John Rentoul in the Independent asked for top shop names and our own Melon Cauli made the top 4. The list can be seen HERE Congratulations to Warwick and the lads !
You may have noticed the past few weeks no comments on the development plans. The reason for this has been simple. Positions were fixed and known, no one was going to be persuaded to change their mind and thus let people do their own thing. If you wanted to object then there is a democratic way…
With a massive thanks to the Walsall advertiser for this lovely piece of information – HERE We now have a great resource of OS MAPS on line HERE from 1880 until 1938 and it is fascinating (at least for me) to see how we developed. The last map in 1938 only shows the following roads…
Whilst not a local issue, I do believe the people of Pheasey Park Farm need to have the information on hand about how to do this. You may have heard of a plan to transfer your medical records to a database called care.data. This database will contain your records anonymously but I personally believe in…
I heard disturbing information last night that Lapworth Architects were not allowed at the Walsall Council Consultation at Great Barr Memorial Hall. After checking this, it was confirmed and they had been turned away by the council officials. It has not become clear after numerous attempts of asking Walsall Council on Twitter (who normally are…
Relevant I guess to all the other debates we have seen. Good job this is not in the rush hour ! Walsall Transport @WalsallTransprt Roadworks Info: Chapel Ln (btwn A34 Bham Rd & Suttons Dr), road closed Mon 20 – Wed 22 Jan, 0930-1600, due to telecom repairs EDIT I have been contacted by a couple…
You may not be aware but the school is due to feature on Central TV tonight regarding it’s use of SMART Technology in the classroom. As an IT person this looks very good and more details can be found HERE A little snippet from ITV HERE EDIT That was a great piece on the TV,…
The owners have obviously been following the debate around the Hall very closely.This has been from reading this blog, the Beacon Action Group site and other comments. Last night I received a lengthy and detailed statement that addresses the debate and I have been given the permission to post these extracts. I will post these…
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