Comments on: Great Barr Mining Disaster 1908 Bee Gees, not involved

By: Russ L

Russ L — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:45:45 +0000

It’s worth generally noting here that bits of the Tame might constitute a boundary, but it’s not along its entire length.

That’d just be silly.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:52:45 +0000

The boundary with the Black Country and Birmingham is the River Tame. One or two parts of Hamstead could just be in Birmingham, as Hamstead station is, but I’m not sure where “true” Hamstead begins.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:32:20 +0000

My ladyfriend’s Uncle – who actually mined there – says most of Hamstead is in Birmingham but the actual pit was in the Black Country. He views The Tame as the boundary around that bit.

By: Lee M

Lee M — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:11:20 +0000

The colliery was located in what is now Sandwell. It later became the site of the Kings (the area’s answer to the Night Out) The Dome for young uns!
Hamstead is predominantly in Sandwell but shabbily looked upon by the Yam Yams as it’s viewed (along with Great Barr) as the wealthy part of the borough.
As for Boundary – beyond the railway station going up Hamstead Hill.

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:41:47 +0000

I’m not sure exactly where the boundary might be, certainly not where it was in 1908, but I lived in Hampsted for about 20 years and I’m pretty sure I lived in Birmingham.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:38:17 +0000

Hamstead Colliery was never in Birmingham – it was on the fringes of West Bromwich and the area now comes under Sandwell. Birmingham never had coal mines. For some reason many people seem to think that Hamstead Colliery was in a north suburb of Birmingham because the boundary with Brum was close by.

By: Russ L

Russ L — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:14:35 +0000

Say it ain’t so, Bounds!

By: bounder

bounder — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:45:06 +0000

You know BiNS all the news that’s fit to print, or rather link to and make up obscure headlines about.

North Brum fixation might be a reaction to going round Moseley in Bloom yesterday, and worrying about myself acting middle class.

By: Nick Booth

Nick Booth — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:35:59 +0000

What’s with all the North Birmingham stuff? Are you on some weird SEO bet for the wild lands?