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The guy [ was on about who did the walk was you Mick, how ya doing.

To further this thread, i remember the Evening Mail doing a pull-out supplement on Snow Hill Station, i think it was about the same time as the tunnel walk. The supplement mentioned that Snow Hill tunnel was haunted by the ghost of a shunter driver called Billy Richards. He was killed in the...

I never did the walk to Handsworth David, a guy i worked with did it, but it never attracted the same crowds as the Snow Hill tunnel did.

Oldmohawk, i do remember that queue, i couldnt believe the length of it. When we walked through the tunnel, on Snow Hill Station there were guys with buckets collecting donations for the Birmingham Christmas tree fund. They must have collected a forune. Afew days before the tunnel walk, people...

Just read all of this thread.Thanks to all of you who contributed. My memories of Snow Hill was in the 60s when my Aunt used to take me and my brother there,always on a Friday afternoon in the school holidays. It was never too busy but still a memorable time. We always sat on platform 7. I dont...

Thanks Paul, glad you find it interesting.

I think the magazine cutting answers a few questions. My neighbour also mentioned that for a while she lived in a caravan along the Stocken. This is a walkway, or bridlepath that runs from Chestnut Drive, past Cofton lake and down to Cofton Church Lane. I got the impression that she was about in...

Many happy days spent at the Lickey Hills when i was a child. Im fortunate enough to now live up there. When i moved up there 5 years ago, i got talking with a neighbour (who has now sadly passed away), he spent all his life living in this area, and knew it inside out. He told me about a woman...

I also worked with a guy who used to fire on Monument Lane. I could listen to him for hours, he should have wrote a book about it all.

Thanks for the welcome guys. About 18 months ago i walked some of this line with a friend, we found a couple of sleeper chairs, and i took one home with me, i didnt need to go to the gym for a week after carrying this. Anyway i rubbed it down and there was LMSR with a couple of numbers on it. I...

I walked this line last summer with my son. Its suprising how much of it is left. I was building a wall in my garden, so the following week, my son and i went back with some sacks to collect a few bricks from the remains of Dowery Dell Viaduct. We got quite a few, (there are hundreds lying...