Coopers hill

[soulman101]

Where it all started.
https://www.wbachronicle.com/coopers-hill/

[SCOOP115]

Had a look at the other page on that site showing the first playing area in Dartmouth Park. If my memory servers me right that area (at he Herbert St entrance) used to be where the miniture golf course (pitch and putt) used to be. Also remember that used to be on quite a slpoe down. Wonder where the football pitch would have fitted in ? (obviously pre golf course)

[phild]

Yes scoop I believe that was where it was situated, played many a golf game there.

The Drunken Duck that served as the changing room at Coopers Hill is still there and is now a childs nursery

In fact I lived in Alfred St West Brom in the early 70s so I actually lived on the very field that Albion played on (Bunns Field, Birches) when they left Dartmouth Park. The Roebuck Inn (changing rooms) were demolished when the new Police station was built in the mid 70s.

Also on the Bunns field site was the vets and and ironmongers next to it. I used to walk over the bridge from Alfred Street to Dartmouth Park and near the bridge as kids we would often play at the Stony Lane ground where they played before Albion moved to the Hawthorns and, Incredibly, after 74 years the playing area was still there but was mainly covered in rubble plus a part of the football stand. Withers safe company was also there next to the ground. It was all redeveloped in the 80s and the two roads were called Withers Way and Albion Fields Road.

[soulman101]

Hi, reading about the Stoney lane, I didn't know that it was a field rented off the the undertaker H Web .
I often speak to one of the Web's and he told me he brought the Woodman scoreboard and has had it erected in his big garden of his house on the Cannock rd.

[Baggies_Boy_Tony]

I also heard that when we first moved to Stoney Lane, we used the Horse & Jockey as changing rooms, anybody know anything about this?

[soulman101]

I also heard that when we first moved to Stoney Lane, we used the Horse & Jockey as changing rooms, anybody know anything about this?

Hi Tony, I can't find any info about the Horse and Jockey.
On a side note these are grounds of the 12 founder members .
https://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.com/...eague.html?m=1

[WBA1955]

Didn't a pub at Stoney Lane keep a Throstle in a cage?

[WBA1955]

In 1979 I went to the centenary game in Dartmouth Park. It was the closest to Coopers bonk as they could get.
Albion played in quarters not stripes.

[phild]

I also heard that when we first moved to Stoney Lane, we used the Horse & Jockey as changing rooms, anybody know anything about this?

I don't know for sure but it would seem plausible as the Horse and Jockey was a very short walking distance to the ground. In those days the very few clubs in existence never had their own facilities it would have been a football pitch and possibly some stand or other for shelter. So clubs would use the nearest inn for changing etc.
I haven't been down Stoney Lane for ages. I believe the Jockey is still a pub. Queens Head a little further along is no longer there/used? The Jolly Nailor at the bottom end near the hospital i think are now flats?
And I believe Tony Godden lived in/near Stoney Lane, near the lyng Spring, which as long dried up

[Baggies_Boy_Tony]

I haven't been down Stoney Lane for ages. I believe the Jockey is still a pub. Queens Head a little further along is no longer there/used? The Jolly Nailor at the bottom end near the hospital i think are now flats?

It's still a pub, I use it regularly when I'm down in West Brom. visiting