Changing times
With the withdrawal of National Express West Midlands last Metrobuses, this is a scene that is no more. The picture was taken on the A460 Cannock Road, Wolverhampton on the morning of Saturday 4th April 2009. Coming down the hill towards us is Metrobus 3005, enroute for the Ashmore Park housing estate on the 528 service, while sister, 3108 heaves itself away from the bus stop, heading up the Cannock Road into Wolverhampton City Centre on the 598 route.
Just ahead of 3108 is the perimeter wall of the former Mitchells & Butler, Springfield Brewery; shut down many years before. Behind the trees, to the right of 3005 is the Wagon and Horses public house (which had recently been forced to close due to some very dodgy clientele causing problems for the locals). In better times this public house had replaced a pub of the same in the 1960s; the original Wagon and Horses being a small terraced building that stood alongside the Cannock Road just behind where 3005 is in this picture. The now closed Wagon and Horses pub will soon be history itself, as it looks set to be demolished.
I suspect that over the next few years this area will eventually be the subject of another council approved re-generation plan, and will metamorphosise into yet more ‘low cost’ housing. C'est la vie!
Changing times
With the withdrawal of National Express West Midlands last Metrobuses, this is a scene that is no more. The picture was taken on the A460 Cannock Road, Wolverhampton on the morning of Saturday 4th April 2009. Coming down the hill towards us is Metrobus 3005, enroute for the Ashmore Park housing estate on the 528 service, while sister, 3108 heaves itself away from the bus stop, heading up the Cannock Road into Wolverhampton City Centre on the 598 route.
Just ahead of 3108 is the perimeter wall of the former Mitchells & Butler, Springfield Brewery; shut down many years before. Behind the trees, to the right of 3005 is the Wagon and Horses public house (which had recently been forced to close due to some very dodgy clientele causing problems for the locals). In better times this public house had replaced a pub of the same in the 1960s; the original Wagon and Horses being a small terraced building that stood alongside the Cannock Road just behind where 3005 is in this picture. The now closed Wagon and Horses pub will soon be history itself, as it looks set to be demolished.
I suspect that over the next few years this area will eventually be the subject of another council approved re-generation plan, and will metamorphosise into yet more ‘low cost’ housing. C'est la vie!