Pooley Country Park, Tamworth

Last week before talking to Tamworth Photographic club, I visited Pooley Country Park, which used to be a Mining Area. It was the first mine to generate its own electricity (from excess steam) in the early 1920s, and also the first to have pit head baths, which were opened in 1928. The Colliery eventually closed in 1965 and parts of the house, outbuildings and the colliery buildings had to be demolished due to mining subsidence. Now it is a patchwork of silver birches, other trees and pools with the Coventry Canal and boatyards along one side.