Dear Gus, Hello! It's me, Juraj, to report that I was mistaken in claiming a church on top of Dudley Hill with a tunnel connection to a pub below. I looked through my papers and found that the hill is in Wednesbury and the church was St Bart's. There was indeed a tunnel, as claimed by one Dave Ogden of the Black Country List. The pub was the Blue Ball at Hall End, Wednesbury, aka Spittles. He reports in an old message via the List: "The Spittles owned or ran a number of pubs / inns / alehouses in the Wednesbury / Tipton area, probably the most famous being the Blue Ball at Hall End aka Spittles, by which name it is still known. This pub has many tales behind it! i.e., the bellringers at St Barts, which is situated at the top of the hill above Spittles, rang the congregation into church, then decamped down a tunnel which came out behind the pub. There they "had a few", but always made it back to the church to ring out the congregation. I was told this tale many times by the locals and never really believed it, until one day I was told that the tunnel still exists, and it does! It's there behind the rose bushes on Ethelfleda place, immediately below St Barts Bell Tower. There's more to these stories than meets the eye!" Dave then went on to state that Spittles also had another claim to fame, and that's the Wedgebury Cocking, which you can read for yourself at this web page: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/ENG-BLACK-COUNTRY/2000-09/0968029910 . Being a history man I'm sure you'll enjoy the old language and references. Thanks for correcting me in regards to Tipton and Dudley. Warm regards, JURAJ