#CrystalPalace #sydenham #london #localhistory #blackcountry. #industrialrevolution

I was born in Smethwick and worked at Round Oak Steelworks in Brierley Hill before coming to live in London and Sydenham. Hence this article linking all the Black Country manufacturing of the Crystal Palace and it's final resting place less than a mile from my home fascinates me.

I hope you will find it interesting too and a reminder of the times when we could really make stuff.

https://simonbriercliffe.com/2022/09/19/who-made-the-ironwork-for-the-crystal-palace/

@christianp

I used to travel round the UK for work. Hearing local accents in their subtlety going from place to nearby place always fascinated me.

And, of course, now and then, away from home, I'd hear a "normal" accent. That cross between #BlackCountry and west Birmingham that's my #Brummie accent.

😂

I repeated it using the surname with a wild card "Sid*way" ... and that was even more :ablobbowtie_neon: 😬😬.

Almost entirely #BlackCountry ... utterly astonished me!

Checking this morning's batch of new #AncestryDNA matches ... Someone joined #Ancestry last month and added an outline tree ... am smiling at the journey they just started from New Hampshire that will take them to a beer house in Sheffield then to their family of spade makers in the #BlackCountry and maybe even to the their tailoring ancestors in St Luke in London.

At which point I'm stuck, too :)

The Crooked House, famous old Black Country pub skewed by mining subsidence, burned down a few days after being bought out from the brewery. Sad end to a historic place and a part of my youth. #HistoricBuildings #Pubs #BlackCountry

“Ifyoh cor sinnon, wiyay gotnon “

#BlackCountry English is best English.

Translations welcome !

#linguistics #language #dialect

Clues later if needed.

Happy Black Country Pride Day to all the lovely Yam Yams out there!

I was reading a geology website, about Wren’s Nest, and my favourite bit was the image where they’ve labelled the location of Dudley 427,000,000 years ago with a big arrow, lol. Priorities!

#geology #Dudley #Silurian #WenlockWednesday #TheBlackCountry #BlackCountry #BlackCountryPride #BlackCountryPrideDay

The curious case of Baskerville’s bones. The latest edition of ‘Coal, Iron, Lime … and a bit of Gospel’. The latter linked to John 11 and Ezekiel 37 (Lazarus raised and a valley full of bones). #Birmingham #BlackCountry https://youtu.be/_s8yXOlXcNo

I spend most of my tree time nowadays working "downhill". Coming forward in time looking for ancestors' children and their families.

I find it helpful sometimes to have a quick look on FreeBMD to see how many John Xs or Mary Ys were born around the time I'm researching.

Parkes and Hatton, Woodhouse and Westwood ... stumble upon these in the #BlackCountry and howl 😱

Often delete ALL #Ancestry hints for a person added to the tree from census or FreeBMD father/mother surname births search.

The remains of Showcase Cinemas in Walsall, next to J10 of the M6. Like several other Showcase Cinemas nationally, it was designed by Abbey Hanson Rowe and opened on 23/08/1989. It closed on 16/03/2020 and never reopened. #Cinema #PoMo #20thCenturyArchitecture #Walsall #BlackCountry

Early morning #FamilyHistory investigating a new Thrulines common ancestor match in a rather handwavy uncertain branch of the family.

Westwood is a very common surname in the #BlackCountry so am a tad concerned I've started climbing down the wrong tree.

The marvellous #BlackCountry #poetry of Liz Berry.

I first heard Liz reading her poems on BBC R4's #PoetryPlease

The Republic of Motherhood.

#LizBerry #Dialect #DialectPoetry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDyvUDZPyL0

The marvellous #BlackCountry #poetry of Liz Berry.

I first heard Liz reading her poems on BBC R4's #PoetryPlease

The Republic of Motherhood.

#LizBerry #Dialect #DialectPoetry

https://www.lizberrypoetry.co.uk/

Looking for something to do over #Christmas? Try entering the #Wolverhampton #LitFest #Poetry #Competition. £400 first prize. There is no theme but there is a #WV postcode prize. Comp is judged by the excellent Jane Commane. More details here:

https://www.wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk/competition.html

#poetsofMastodon #Poets #PoetryCompetition #PoetryCommunity #Literature #LiteratureFestival #Festival #BlackCountry #Midlands #WestMidlands

The Black Country Living Museum is trying to reconstruct a Black Country music shop ...
They are looking for post WW2 musical instruments.

#BlackCountry
#BlackCountryLivingMuseum
#FamilyHistory

https://bclm.com/stantons-music-shop/?s=09

M. Joseph ... Smethwick's celebrity chef!

By Simon Briercliffe on his blog Up The Oss Road.

#BlackCountry
#FamilyHistory
#Smethwick
#ChanceBrothers

https://simonbriercliffe.com/2022/12/20/place-to-place-m-joseph-smethwicks-celebrity-chef/

Andy Tidy walks and flies us along part of James Brindley's original Birmingham canal ... now mostly abandoned around Wednesbury and Swan Village.

He starts at Pudding Green Junction on the BCN main line. One of the first places I walked on the Birmingham canal out from Smethwick. Pudding Green. Where else but in the #BlackCountry
#BCN
#CanalHunter

https://youtu.be/ZmBUMn1faaU

Amongst the links is mention of Woden's 8 legged horse Sleipnir. Here depicted at the town named for him: #Wednesbury in the #BlackCountry
😎

There's a server called @botsin.space - someone surely needs to make a #BlackCountry version @bostin.space