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Lost Watercourses

Follow Sandwell’s lost streams, brooks and hidden waterways, investigating their historic routes, boundaries, culverts and surviving traces in today’s landscape.

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The Lost County Boundary Stream

Tracing the historic watercourse from West Smethwick Park towards Oldbury and the River Tame.

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The Sandwell Walker

Walking through Sandwell’s past, one street at a time.

Films, field research, historic maps and community memories from across Sandwell’s six towns.

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Sandwell history, explored on foot.