Rock and (beef and onion) Roll
My latest West Midlands History Podcast is not really suitable for going on a fact-finding walk for. It concerns the improvement in household living in the Black Country home.
I could have gone to the Back to Back Houses in Birmingham, but have already visited. The Black Country Living Museum falls into the same category, but next door is the free Museum and Art Gallery.
However, it is the listing in Black Country Geosites and there is a Good Beer Guide Tick is up for grabs. A day out is possible.
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| Would have more apt |
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| I'll look at plastic dinosaurs, instead |
I did manage to get all the leaflets I needed for future Black Country Geo-sites walks. Including a heritage trail around Dudley town centre, where 23 interesting rock locations are highlighted. I enjoyed the statues and priory, Poundland and the Halifax less so.
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| What retirement holds in store for you |
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| Duncan Edwards - the best statue in town |
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| Priory Park is lovely |
Nothing says tourist more than a man struggling to unfurl an A1 sized leaflet in a town centre. And Dudley doesn't get many tourists. It was best that I repaired to the unvisited GBG Tick at the Malt Shovel.
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| Former Banks |
Should you be able to zoom in on the external chalk board - it says they do have Real Ale. Not that this was encouraging my fellow lunchtime drinkers, all on Carling. Comfortable enough and my Pictish Brewing Blue Moon was perfect, even if it was from Rochdale, rather than Scotland, as informed by the bar staff.
A cob lunch, perfect.
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| A two phase lunch |
The Fellows is highlighted on my Google Maps as being part of the Holdens chain, but my spider senses were instantly alerted to this being fake news.
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| Too smart |
Online, its still listed. It serves a perfect Golden Glow. And Holdens scratchings. Yet it has been sold and is now an independent concern.
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| Lunch - Part 2 |
A walk back to Tipton Train Station (evidence that the future tram extenstion may make getting to Dudley slightly easier). Long closed pubs, ruined vans with repossession notices on the smashed windscreens and celebrations of the local celebraties.
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| The Tipton Slasher |
Walk Details
Distance - 6 Miles
Geocaches - 12
Walk Inspiration - West Midlands History Podcast and the Dudley Geological Heritage Trail
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