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Today we decided to find the Matilda Hospital Artillery Observation Post. Starting from Wah Fu Estate, our journey began with an abandoned squatter village, completely hidden from view next to a major thoroughfare. 
Raised platforms, bits of tile and hand-poured concrete stairs are all that remains. Maps from the 1970's already list the area as containing ruins so perhaps they were resettled in Wah Fu Estate - but artifacts from the 80's suggest otherwise.
Darlie had the name changed in 1989, while cassette and VHS tapes also point to late 80's or early 90's. Unfortunately there were no markings on the tapes.
If you interested in researching and finding out more about #Blackhistory in the #WestMidlands here is a thread of some of the #archive resources you can find in our area. Please add to the list with any other sources you know of #archives 1/6
The Black History Collection @LibraryofBham @BhamCityCouncil @TheIronRoom access found: birmingham.gov.uk/info/50134/arc… 2/6
A list of sources relating to Black and Asian history at #Staffordshire Archive and Heritage @ArchandHeritage staffordshire.gov.uk/Heritage-and-a… 3/6
My #countryhousepic today shows Aqualate Hall, #Staffordshire as it existed in 1686. The house was built about 1600, perhaps engulfing the gatehouse of its mid C16 predecessor. The forecourt of c.1670 has busts on piers, in the manner of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
In 1689 Aqualate Hall passed by marriage from the Skrymshers to the Baldwyns, and there were two phases of remodelling in the C18, c.1730 and c.1770, leaving the house looking like this at the end of the century
In 1796 Aqualate was sold to the trustees of Sir John Fenton Fletcher Boughey (1784-1823), 2nd bt.,, who came of age in 1805 and brought in John Nash to remodel the house as a fantasy palace with buttresses, battlements and ogee domes.
