Volunteers have discovered the foundations of a WW2 lookout at Marsh Park, Brierley Hill.

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00:00OK, Frank, so we're here at Marsh Park, just explain where we are and what's going on.

00:06So we're in Marsh Park in Briley Hill, it's right at one end of the High Street in Briley

00:10Hill which is a really good thing, not many places have got a big old park like this going

00:15back to 1921 in their town centre.

00:20This park was actually put together after World War One by World War One soldiers returning

00:24from the war and they actually did all the landscaping of it.

00:28And we've always known, it had a bit of a history in World War Two as well, the locals

00:31have talked about there being a lookout post on here.

00:36We've always seen a couple of bricks here in the corner on the ground, revealed in the

00:40sort of summer weather, you know, you can see them there, but we didn't know if we were

00:44going to dig it out and find a pile of bricks that somebody had dumped on here years ago

00:48or if it would actually be the foundations of what we wanted it to be, which is a World

00:53War Two lookout post.

00:54It's incredible, it's a great find, great discovery isn't it?

00:58So now we've scraped away the surface over the last couple of weekends with the Wolverhampton

01:02Archaeology Group helping us, we've discovered that it is actually the foundations of the

01:07World War Two lookout tower and local residents have said they remember it being a two-storey

01:12building, the bottom floor not so much accessible but the top was the important bit, it was

01:18kind of a big crow's nest, made out of red brick as you can see in the ground.

01:23It's 18 inches thick so it's quite robust and bomb-proof, but what we're looking for

01:29now is people from the local area, people who've travelled further afield now, with

01:34any memories of World War Two in Briley Hill and of family that were in the Home Guard

01:41and may have been placed here.

01:42So if people have got stories Frank, how can they get in touch with you?

01:45So yeah, if you had family in the Home Guard or the ROC or remember anything about World

01:49War Two, get in touch with us, the email address is culture at brileyhill.net and if

01:56you don't know how to spell Briley Hill it's b-r-i-e-r-l-e-y-h-i-l-l, so culture at brileyhill.net.

02:03Fantastic.