West Bromwich

West Bromwich

West Bromwich Albion, WBA, football programmes, FA Cup Final 1968

What to see
You’ll find accounts of Birmingham’s tourist attractions in Towns of Two Halves (and of 91 other places: order the book now for £8 from info@townsof2halves.co.uk).
Links to West Bromwich’s attractions are:
Black Country Living Museum
Oak House Museum
Sandwell Valley Country Park
See the Birmingham page for the city as a whole. For additional information plus shopping, eating out etc there’s Visit Birmingham.

Sandwell Valley Country Park: working farms, trails, leisure facilities and heritage features, just a mile from West Bromwich

Towns of Two Halves extracts:
“You pick your team, by whatever divinatory means, and you stay with them. In the absence of greatness you take pleasure in small triumphs.”
“West Bromwich Albion was my father’s team. Not that he came from the West Midlands; far from it. His family, for generations, had been tethered to the mill towns of north Manchester. No, he liked West Bromwich Albion because he found the name exotic.”
“Very occasionally you go to watch them and remember better days. Inevitably, you will feel old. And one day you actually are old and can go no longer and one more candle must be lit at the altar of the Corinthian past, which lives on in ever fewer memories.”
These are taken from the West Bromwich chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.