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22/02/2024
DATE: 1935
Barnford Hill Park, Oldbury
02/05/2023
Trinity methodist Church
( formerly the Wesleyan methodist Church ) lyde green Cradley. The bottom of middletree road .
28/12/2022
28/12/2022
Date:1933
Dudley Opera House.
Castle Hill.
destroyed by fire in 1936, and replaced in 1938 by Dudley Hippodrome.
18/09/2022
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-royal-visit-to-oldbury-1957-online
Watch Royal Visit to Oldbury - BFI Player The Queen makes a brief visit to the Black Country industrial town of Oldbury and stays just long enough to receive a souvenir.
04/01/2021
Dudley 1966
Lomey town cradley heath
Old Hill Cross
19/09/2020
Does anyone have any photos of Cooksey hotel Cradley Heath.
Or any information
05/09/2020
The Plaza Cinema, which opened in 1936, was renamed the Odeon after the neighbouring Odeon Cinema closed in 1975. Next door, the Hippodrome Theatre was opened in 1938 on the site of the former Opera House, which was destroyed by fire in 1936. The Odeon closed in October 1990 and was demolished in 1997, while the former Hippodrome was used as a bingo hall from the 1970s until 2009.
The canals were once the motorways of their day. You could event get a ‘canal taxi’ from Tipton to Brum in a speedy 2 hours! But one invention in particular would bring this ‘canal mania’ to an end...
Visit bclm.com/HistoryatHome where you’ll find this canalmania week’s activities for homeschooling the little’uns 🤓
The Black Country was the most dangerous place to be a coal miner in the 19th century ☝️ But one group in particular had it SO much worse than the others. Find out why in our first Black Country mini-doc + visit bclm.com/HistoryatHome where you’ll find this week’s history lesson for the little’uns 🤓
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