Spinners End in Sandwell (near Birmingham) and Dudley (OT)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 117052


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
> 
> Kneasy:
> Tut, tut.
> It's got nothing at all to do with Birmingham and never has.
> 
> I speak as someone who was born and bred there, though I've since
> moved on.
> All  the old towns that make up the  administrative abortion that 
is 
> Sandwell (Oldbury, West Bromwich, Smethwick etc.) were even in
> a different county (Staffs) to Brum (Warks).

Geoff:
My apologies. I have a naughty tendency to mix up Birmingham with the 
West Midlands authority. You did once comment that you had worked in 
Brum - ambulances? I didn't realise you also hailed from the area.

I used to teach in what was north-east Surrey and became Greater 
London - there are still mix ups there between "LCC" London and the 
expanded version. We had a whale of a time deciding on the name for 
the combined Wimbledon/Merton & Morden borough. All sorts of potty 
suggestions - not Spinners End or Godric's Hollow sadly; in the end 
we opted for a mundane Merton.