Gosty Hill Tunnel and Steelworks.

[Engineer]

500 metres, bit low in places.

Tight bit.

Airshaft.

Web pic of airshaft at street level.

East portal.

Visitor info, think it was Round Oak Steelwoks.

Same place when working.

Old gearbox.

Most of the site is now under Merry Hill shopping centre, FCUK.

Pics by a fellow explorer.

 

[CHEWY]

Great stuff..

but not sure i'd want that air shaft in my garden though

 

[smileysal]

ooooooh thats narrow, like looking up the air shaft, but i wouldn't like the topside part to be quite that close to my house. Wouldn't mind it further up the garden though.

excellent pics,

Sal

 

[sqwasher]

Nice pics of some pretty interesting subjects. That airshaft top in the garden is cool!

 

[Engineer]

Gosty Hill.

Yes, strange way to arrange the houses, I suspect it did not matter at the time the house was built in the good old days when the Black Country was black.
Shame most of the steelworks has gone.

 

[Foxylady]

Really enjoyed your tour, Engineer. Some very interesting stuff there. Nice canal boat.

 

[Sabtr]

Very interesting. When I first saw the pictures I thought you were on a train roof!
The air shaft in the front garden is just mad! It looks so out of place. I wonder how an estate agent would describe a garden like that?
The old steelworks is great too. All overgrown now but you can still see signs of industry if you look. Love it.
Thanks for posting this.

 

[Engineer]

Gosty Hill.

Really enjoyed your tour, Engineer. Some very interesting stuff there. Nice canal boat.

Thanks' spent the last 9 years slowly fitting it out, almost finished.

 

[Engineer]

Gosty Hill.

Very interesting. When I first saw the pictures I thought you were on a train roof!
The air shaft in the front garden is just mad! It looks so out of place. I wonder how an estate agent would describe a garden like that?
The old steelworks is great too. All overgrown now but you can still see signs of industry if you look. Love it.
Thanks for posting this.

Well ventilated front garden.lol.

 

[samsmeg123]

wow, i live down the road from that airshaft. sweet!

 

[tarboat]

Good report. Interesting to see what remains of the old Coombeswood tubeworks. The boats in the old photos were used for storing tubes rather than for delivering them by canal.

 

[Engineer]

Gosty Hill Tunnel.

Thanks, there used to be a lot more of the place left in the 80's.