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Ex Hull bus and Dudley Castle. WMPTE Dudley garage 1144 leaves Dudley bus station in 1976: image by Walsall1955, 30 September 2009
Around the gaudy roundabout we go.
Dudley Castle does its old joke again
and above the town
the brown horse tumbles up,
so gauche, with a belly full
of helium
toward the clouded over Sun.
The Mediaeval Plough and Bronze Crucible. Roundabout sculptures designed by Andrew Burton on the A461, linking the Dudley Southern Pass, Birmingham Road, Castle Hill and Tipton Road. The island is called Castle Gate Island. There are seven sculptures on huge earthworks, made in bronze, wood, ceramic, reclaimed brick, concrete and corten-steel: photo by Elliott Brown, 4 January 2011
Dudley Castle from Murchison's View, Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve, Dudley, West Midlands: photo by Tim Ellis, 22 June 2008
Dudley Castle: photo by Keith Leatham, 26 june 2011
Sign: Bessie, or No. 18 Bessie. A riveted, wrought iron horse drawn "joey" boat built in 1895 for the Harts Hill Iron Co on the Pensnett Canal near Brierley Hill. With a maximum load of 30 tons, she carried coal, coke, iron ore, pig iron or slag. Canal Arm off the Dudley Canal at the Black Country Living Museum, off Tipton Road in Dudley, West Midlands: photo by Elliott Brown, 14 August 2011
Dudley Castle does its old joke again
and above the town
the brown horse tumbles up,
so gauche, with a belly full
of helium
toward the clouded over Sun.
The Mediaeval Plough and Bronze Crucible. Roundabout sculptures designed by Andrew Burton on the A461, linking the Dudley Southern Pass, Birmingham Road, Castle Hill and Tipton Road. The island is called Castle Gate Island. There are seven sculptures on huge earthworks, made in bronze, wood, ceramic, reclaimed brick, concrete and corten-steel: photo by Elliott Brown, 4 January 2011
View from a distance of Dudley Castle. Dudley Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Dudley, West Midlands. Dudley Zoo is located in its grounds. The location, Castle Hill, is an outcrop of Wenlock Group limestone that was extensively quarried during the Industrial Revolution, and which now along with Wren's Nest Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument as the best surviving remains of the limestone industry in Dudley. One of the main reasons for coming to Dudley was to take shots of Dudley Castle. Now with my current camera, I can be far away from it, and zoom in. These views are from or around Castle Gate Island. You can see it on the bus into Dudley, so I walked around the island trying to see what views I could get of it: photo by Elliott Brown, 4 January 2011
Dudley Castle from Murchison's View, Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve, Dudley, West Midlands: photo by Tim Ellis, 22 June 2008
Dudley Castle: photo by Keith Leatham, 26 june 2011
Sign: Bessie, or No. 18 Bessie. A riveted, wrought iron horse drawn "joey" boat built in 1895 for the Harts Hill Iron Co on the Pensnett Canal near Brierley Hill. With a maximum load of 30 tons, she carried coal, coke, iron ore, pig iron or slag. Canal Arm off the Dudley Canal at the Black Country Living Museum, off Tipton Road in Dudley, West Midlands: photo by Elliott Brown, 14 August 2011
No. 18 Bessie. Castle Fields Boat Docks, Canal Arm off the Dudley Canal at the Black Country Living Museum, off Tipton Road in Dudley. The thousands of boats that used to work the Black Country canals all needed constant maintenance. In this area there were many working boat yards, or docks, like this one, where boats were built and repaired. They were busy, cluttered places not unlike a modern scrap yard as it was common practise to break wooden boats, salvaging the ironwork. Castlefields boat dock is typical of the many on the Black Country canal system of the period and is equipped to build new working craft and to repair those of iron or composite construction. The dock can accommodate three boats, drawn sideways out of the water by winches onto the slip. This is Bessie, or No. 18 Bessie, a riveted, wrought iron horse drawn "joey" boat built in 1895 for the Harts Hill Iron Co on the Pensnett Canal near Brierley Hill. With a maximum load of 30 tons, she carried coal, coke, iron ore, pig iron or slag: photo by Elliott Brown, 14 August 2011
View toward town from Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve, Dudley, West Midlands: panoramic photo by Tim Ellis, 22 June 2008
Lemur, Dudley Castle and Zoological Gardens, West Midlands: photo by Lucy Stephenson, 15 June 2009
Group hug. Lemurs at Dudley Castle and Zoological Gardens, West Midlands: photo by Ian Layzell, 18 July 2007
Monkey, Dudley Castle and Zoological Gardens, West Midlands: photo by Lucy Stephenson, 15 June 2009
Toucan, Dudley Castle and Zoological Gardens, West Midlands: photo by Anna Bulka, 12 September 2009
WM Metrobus 6831, Saltley Viaduct, Birmingham, 5 July 1980: photographer unknown, image by GarethJones79, n.d.
West Midlands Metrobus 6831 at Bromford Bridge, Birmingham, September 1980. WMPTE's first Metrobus 6831 gets ready to head back to the City Centre Via Drews Lane and Alum Rock: photographer unknown, image by GarethJones79
View from Dudley Castle: photo by Roy Brockmoor, 25 March 2012
Olympic Flame takes flight Inside Eden Project's helium balloon, in Rainforest Biome, Cornwall, beginning its ten-week relay across Britain, 19 May 2012: photo via lucy-fulford
Wooden Boy: Bus Notes 11, from The Little Wooden Boy, 21 July 2012
("The Bus Note just published was written while the traffic slowed to a stop to make way for the Torch a few weeks ago. I didn't want to make any mention of it.")
("The Bus Note just published was written while the traffic slowed to a stop to make way for the Torch a few weeks ago. I didn't want to make any mention of it.")
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