Black Horse

[BigTed1]

What is the relevence of the Black horse you see a lot around Wolverhampton - is it something to do with the Black Country?

[k@tie]

all i know is i used to pretend to ride it (ah erm) when drunk at 2am in the city centre x

[janetsflower]

Don't know about the horse but Black Country gets its name from it being a coal mining area at one time

[Narolines]

Close, janetsflower, but not entirely accurate; the name "Black Country" arose from the pall of smoke that hung permanently over the region and general griminess and sootiness of everything as a result of the concentration of industry there. Coal-mining was certainly part of it, but so were metal-refining, foundrywork, glassmaking and a hundred other filth-generating industries. And for the record, Wolverhampton is not actually in the Black Country.....