This blog is about the Pheasey Estate which is in the borough of Walsall
For those of who do not us it is 7 miles North of Birmingham City Centre and 3 miles south of Walsall.
I have felt for a while that our estate does not get the coverage it deserves and because we are distant from Walsall we are often forgotten. This blog will represent my views and therefore will be biased at times due to my political views (labour party member) but will try and represent what we are about
Please leave comments on the blog or e-mail me at ianrobo1@virginmedia.com
Ian Robathan
Hi Ian,
Pheasey/Park Farm is not an estate?????? – It’s a suburb. Reasonably green, pleasant, with decent housing stock and people, good neighbours; generally quiet, reasonably affluent, with very little crime and unemployment compared to many areas.
If anyone wants to go and see what real estates look like then perhaps a visit over the Queslett Road border from here in South Staffordshire into North Warwickshire to Castle Vale or Chelmsley Wood might be in order.
Distant from Walsall????? – Many Pheasey/Park Farm residents own one or more cars; and it’s just 10 minutes into the centre of Walsall town centre from here by car.
course it is an estate Steve, it is not in the Burbs, Streetly is. We had council houses on the estate, many of them, where I live and many other houses were old Boots homes and paid rent to them
by any defintion it is an estate, it seems to me you are trying deny something that is obvious.
Is Oscott an estate because we are exactly the same as them with the same mixture.
Hi Ian,
We’ll have to agree to disagree again. Nearly all of the houses in the suburb are privately owned now, with only approx 80 properties that are council/housing association owned. There are a similar number of council/housing association owned homes next door in Streetly.
Oscott is not an estate either, it is a suburb of North Birmingham, North Warwickshire, with large numbers of council/housing association properties now in private ownership.
This could be a really interesting 3 way debate. It is not an estate it is 2 and possibly 3 now, but it is (is it?) changing into a place rather than estate/s but because of the family connections this will take some time to go from estate to an area or a suburban village which is what I would like to see.
PPF has its own identity and history that it is, and should be, proud of and I am proud to be a tiny spec in the proud history of the area.
Adrian, Pheasey does have distinct areas.
I live by the Terminus and that is definitely different from Park Farm and parts of Doe bank are different from us.
that is the beauty, within a smallish estate and when you add on Nether Hall and OH then we have disparate communities other areas say St Matthews does not have.
Many people like Steve and myself have long family ties to the place, my mum and Dad for example brought the new house built in the 60′s after living in Queslett and that feeling continues.
I know many people who simply have not moved and never will yet many who got out as soon as poss !!
Hi Ian/Adrian,
I think that Pheasey/Park Farm/Beacon Height’s/Orchard Hills and Nether Hall Park, all together is one suburb. I really like Adrian’s term ‘suburban village’.
Ian is correct, the Terminus is different to say Park Farm and Doe Bank, which are different to Nether Hall, which is very different to Beacon Height’s, which is different to Orchard Hills, which is very different to the more rural area containing many cottages, houses and farms dotted about the lanes and by-ways between Wimpris Way and Skip Lane.
A very pleasant day today; and this evening i drove into town, through Park Farm, along the Beacon Road (what a superb view west just below Barr Beacon), i went down Little Johnsons Lane and along the Sutton Road to the canal bridge just past Daisy Bank Crescent and on towards the Broadway. What a great place to live. Green, generally clean, quiet, usually friendly, with plenty of good and decent people around and about.
funny enough Steve just done that ride on my bike and the views from Barr Beacon were stunning and in my view the Council under whatever party has not done enough to promote it
Hi Ian,
Congratulations on joining the ranks of local blogs in the Walsall area – I’m very impressed!
I have been providing an online voice for Bloxwich, Leamore & Blakenall Heath with The Bloxidge Tallygraph since 2006 – I hope you will check it out!
I’ve linked you from the Tallygraph’s local blogs page.
Keep up the good work – Walsall needs more local blogs to raise the profile of all our distinctive local towns, villages, suburbs and – dare I say it – estates :O)
Regards,
Stuart Williams
Edditer
The Bloxidge Tallygraph
thanks mate and added
Undertaking research in Walsall areas, Districts, estates and suburbs and would appreciate notification of any follow up comments.
Regards
Peter Davis
Hi mate, if you write an article for the blog saying what you are doing I will be very happy to publish it