Photos by Lostlabours.co.uk: on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Sometime in the late 80's. I'll see if I have a spare copy when I'm next back in the UK, I can check the date too.

thats so cool

This is the remains of the Roundhouse of Gothersley Iron Works. It was deliberately destroyed by British Waterways who pulled it down and made the current picnic area.

The small 'tower-like' building is the remains of the Guibal Fan House, and the bigger building behind was the Winding Engine House, both serving the New Hawne colliery adjacent to the top end of 'Hayseech' (which runs just behind in the near background) in Halesowen (or Cradley, Overend or Hawne, depending on which set of old map boundaries your working by!) Not far from Corngreaves Hall (which has been restored), these supposedly Grade II listed buildings are sadly in need of a restoration project before the vandals destroy them completely. Other buildings remain in this complex, further up-slope to the right of this photo.