Cowlyshaws Pond

[Odd-jobs]

I remember the tunnel down into the slag heap, the old derelict Fordson tractor in the barn, the numerous large plant fossils in the quarry and the whine of the pellets from our air rifles as the ricoched off the slabs in the quarry, and running down the Woodburn Road end of the slag heap and stopping just before what was a sheer drop.[Phew] Just about where MKM builders merchants is now.

I also remember us being told that the ponds were full of stolen bikes dumped there by the bad Wybourne lads, so we spent a few futile days dragging them with homemade grappling irons, I think we got one rusted wreck.

There again that was nothing compared to what we used to get up to around Handsworth and Waverley pits

 

Health and safety Ha !.