Car Journey: Sandy Lane, Stourport to Kidderminster Viaduct
From Sandy Lane Industrial Estate, Stourport, via Worcester Road (A4025), Hartlebury Road (B4193), Wilden Lane, to Kidderminster Viaduct (A449)
KIDDERMINSTER INDOOR MARKET PANS
Beneath Lydford Viaduct: (Dartmoor, Devon, UK).
Lydford Viaduct carried the former Southern Railway between Okehampton and Plymouth. To the north of Lydford, the railway is now the Granite Way bike-path to Okehampton but Lydford Viaduct is disused and, although it was possible to access the top deck (former roadbed), it's so overgrown with bushes and trees that taking any pictures there was impossible.
It may be that the viaduct will see trains again as one of the options for bypassing the Dawlish sea wall is to reopen the railway from Exeter to Plymouth around the north of Dartmoor.
This is the railway option that I favour as it would give better access to West Devon which is a very isolated area - why should South Devon have all the trains?
Beneath the viaduct flows the River Lyd through Lydford Gorge. Further down the river the Gorge is a National Trust Property but this upper part of the Gorge is open to all by walking down a public footpath and is a very quiet place.
Bewdley
Quick flight on river severn Bewdley
From Kidderminster to Stourport
A surprisingly uneventful journey, normally there are a ton of cars zooming past on the duel carriageways. So why bother? Well it shows the poor road surfaces of the major roads in Kidderminster, the badly placed shrubbery and road signs obscuring sight lines the road narrows signs on a road that goes from two to three lanes and the filter and merge system that exits in Stourport that no-one uses.
Cavendish House (ABANDONED BUILDING EXPLORATION)
Just a place in Dudley we decided to go and explore, this is the second time we went here so thought we would come back again and film it this time.
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BIG DAVE HAVING A LOOK OVER KIDDERMINSTER
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6435 departs Kidderminster
This pannier tank eluded me at Bewdley, so here's a departure from Kidderminster during the recent steam gala.
HYPEBEASTS EXPLORE ABANDONED ARMY BASE!
In this video we explore an abandoned army base in featherstone, West Midlands. This was such an incredible place to visit and vlog, especially for hypebeast photos.
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ABANDONED Warehouse
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4k ST MARYS CHURCH KIDDERMINSTER WORCESTERSHIRE AT DUSK PART 3
We are the largest parish Church in Worcestershire. It dates mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries. The fine tower stands on the south side of the Church and has niches for statues and panelled battlements. The close-set clerestory windows are square headed and further on is a small turret containing a staircase to the nave roof. St Mary's serves as the parish for Kidderminster and has close links with industry in the local area.
Kidderminster nutter
Some nutter at the old queen's head pub in kidderminster, England.
They let the looney out to play!!
Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal
kinver to kidderminster canal walk.
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Kidderminster Town Centre 24 December 1980 in Ford Escort
Kidderminster Town Centre 24 December 1980 in Ford Escort 1600 Sport !
Starts at the junction of Sutton Road & Stourport Road.... then a drive around most of the town centre.
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Abandoned Free Library Woodside
Welcome to my explore of an beautifully decaying library in the West Midlands England , Urbex don't break or take , and forgive us our trespasses . N-)o¥ history I dug up sounds like something from trumpton, a combined library and fire station. In the 1953 novel firemen burn outlawed books but in Victorian Woodside, although they shared a building, the offices of the fire station and library remained separate.
It was a classic Victorian move, to house two distinct functions in the same building. In fact, the building served three purposes as it also contained two police houses and a holding cell for any Woodside miscreants.
The establishment of public libraries in Dudley borough was a drawn-out affair. The Free Libraries Act, 1850, allowed local authorities to levy a rate of one halfpenny in the pound towards the building of a library and the 1855 Act raised the rate to one penny in the pound. However, in many cases it was several years before local authorities adopted these powers.
In Dudley it was William North, who became mayor in November 1877 who led the drive to establish a library. This process began at a meeting of the town council on July 2, 1878, when Councillor Henry M. Wainwright moved that a public meeting should be held to decide if the Free Libraries Act should be adopted in the borough. But it was not until September 25, 1878, that William North was able to chair a public meeting at the Dudley Institute. The proposal to build a public library was carried unanimously.
A few months later, the 1st Earl of Dudley intervened in the matter. He came to Dudley on February 6, 1879, to distribute prizes at the School of Art. At that time the school was in a building in Upper King Street that would later be used for the St Thomas' Higher Grade Schools.
During his visit the Earl of Dudley remarked on the inconvenient location of the School of Art and suggested that if the borough was going to build a free library it should also put up a new building for art purposes. The earl then offered, if the people of Dudley could decide on a more suitable site, to contribute a proportion of the profits from the Castle Fetes that were held every year at Whitsun towards the cost of building a new School of Art.
The Free Library Committee decided to follow the earl's suggestion and announced plans for a new building that would house both the library and a new School of Art. The two institutions would be quite separate, with their own entrances, but housed under the same roof. The Earl of Dudley agreed with the scheme and eventually a house and land, fronting Priory Street and St James' Road,
The old house was demolished in 1883 and construction of the new library and art school began. The foundation stone was laid on July 3, 1883, by Earl Beauchamp, the Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire. Dudley builders Webb and Round were the contractors and construction took around a year.
The opening ceremony was on July 29, 1884, and was conducted by the 1st Earl of Dudley's sister, the Honourable Julia Claughton, wife of Bishop Thomas Claughton and the mother of Sir Gilbert Claughton. She was last-minute stand-in as the original plan was for the Countess of Dudley to open the new library but she was unable to attend due to the recent death of her brother-in-law, Sir Charles Forbes.
The buildings at Woodside consist of two blocks, fronting the main road from Dudley to Stourbridge. Queen Anne style, best red bricks, relieved with stone dressing and carving. First block consists of a bold entrance in the centre, carried up as a tower with a cupola roof. Entrance hall, 35ft. by 9ft., with doors leading into the reading room and lending library. Staircase at one end of hall to the Recreation Room on first floor. Reading Room well lighted at side and end, 35ft. by 20ft., divided from lending library by glass screen. Lending Library, 30ft. by 15ft., fitted with pitch-pine shelves, counter, etc.; lavatory under stairs. First floor: Landing, 12ft. by 9ft., doors leading to Recreation Room and Retiring Room. Recreation Room, with platform at one end, 50ft. by 20ft.; retiring room, 15ft. by 9ft. Heated by hot water, fixed by Mr W. Attwood, Stourbridge. The second block consists of Fire Station, one cell, two police houses, and caretaker's house over Fire Station. Total cost, £2,900.
In the 1980s the police house and fire station became an Improvements and Innovation centre while the library remained in use until 2008. Since then the building has faced an uncertain future. Some renovation work was begun but came to a halt and the library remains partially scaffolded and in an unfinished state.
Stourport Wrestlers
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abandoned mental asylum
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Abandoned shelters in Wolverhampton
Just a small abandoned location near a power plant
Zombies spotted Kidderminster