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Green grew the rushes
There’s been some fascinating discussion recently about the Veolia hazardous waste plant (formerly Effluent Disposal/Polymeric Treatments/Leigh Environmental/Sarp) in Stubbers Green.
In the comment section of my post about the redevelopment of Brownhills Business Park, ‘The Effluent Society‘, regular and clueful commenter The Stymaster points out that a footpath runs through the site, which I must confess I’d never noticed before.
In relation to that, reader and local photographer Robert Selvey kindly sent me the above picture of the area in 1979, showing the former railway embankment and brickworks, now long gone. Robert had this to say about his picture…