In this programme we visit Hill Top, West Bromwich, where the remains of an aircraft gun emplacement can be seen, eighty years after it was last used to defend Birmingham and the Black Country from enemy aircraft in World War II. Latest
Over the year’s countless numbers of Brummies and Black Country folk have visited Weymouth and the nearby lighthouse but how many of them realise the part that a local firm played in its illustrious history. The vital glass work for the lighting mechanism of the famous lighthouse, Portland Bill, was manufactured over a century ago…
The Princess Royal visited the Dudley Canal Tunnel centre to officially open their £3m visitors’ centre. She toured the building , met pupils from Wren’s Nest Primary School and went on a narrowboat trip into the limestone caverns beneath Dudley. March 2016.