The Black Country

Black by day and red by night.

The Black Country is that part of the West Midlands (in England) which is west of Birmingham and under the overall influence of Wolverhampton. The name possibly comes from the soot deposited on Darwin's countryside by the industrial revolution, which was raging there, following the Iron Bridge. It nowadays has a rather bleak reputation, to the point where people in the train would ask you why you're going there, and even estate companies get puzzled at your plans to rent a place in this area (all this is true; we still don't believe it ourselves although it happened to us personally and repeatedly).

Previously independent villages such as Tettenhall, Bilston, Wednesfield and parts of Willenhall, Coseley and Sedgley have since been integrated to Wolverhampton.

Gallery

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  Avocado colors soaking Wolverhampton's city center, February 2020.

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  On the way to one of the two greens of Tettenhall, a rare place to have two of them, both very pretty, on 9 December (2023).