Spinners End in Sandwell (near Birmingham) and Dudley

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116977


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "LadyOfThePensieve" 
<chrissilein at y...> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> the town Sandwell near Birmingham is the place where the real 
Spinners
> End belongs to.
> 
> It´s maybe interesting that the Sandwell community adjoin to
> Dudley.
> It´s a community in the very neighborhood of Sandwell.


Geoff:
Sandwell was a name which appeared in the 1970s when a number of 
administrative reorganisations took place and obscure names surfaced 
for the new boroughs - Sandwell, Hyndburn, Thamesdown and Waveney 
come to mind. It isn't near Birmingham, it's part of Birmingham. The 
whole area is now administratively the West Midlands including Brum 
(the nickname for Birmingham), Coventry, Walsall and Wolverhampton 
inter alia.



LadyOfThePensieve:
> In Sandwell itself there are places and streets like Broomfield,
> Bromwich (which looks similar to "broomwitch").


Geoff:
There is no place called Bromwich (pronounced "Brommitch" BTW -
silent "w"s are not uncommon in a number of UK town names). There is 
West Bromwich, which as its name suggests is on the west side of 
Birmingham and gthere is Castle Bromwich, more on the north side.


LadyOfThePensieve: 
> Well, I think that´s quite interesting.
> 
> Its´indeed a place as Snape is a real little town in England.


Geoff:
I think UK readers would prefer "small" town. We often get jokes 
about stereotype Americans making remarks about "little ol' England" 
so "real little" tends to evoke a measure of mirth.

Snape is a town in East Anglia near the coast in Suffolk and is world-
renowned for the Maltings Concert Hall which is associated with the 
composer Benjamin Britten.

End of geography lesson. :-)

Curious that my mind is trying to connect Smeltings with Maltings - 
Oh perhaps I've just read too many HP theories lately.....

Geoff
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