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Walsall had two museums, Walsall Museum (closed 2015) and Walsall Leather Museum (still open). Walsall Museum featured local history objects primarily from the manufacturing trades and also had a space for temporary exhibitions, while the leather museum displays a mixture of leather goods and has recreations of leatherworkers workshops.
Victorian Arcade, in Walsall, West Midlands, is a shopping arcade in the town centre, built in the 1890s. It is a Grade II listed building ; [ 1 ] History and description
Highgate Brewery was founded in 1898. [1] It was purchased by Mitchells & Butlers in 1939, which merged with the Bass brewery in 1961. [2] It became independent when the management bought it out in 1995; however it was purchased by Aston Manor Brewery in 2000 who used it to produce canned beer for supermarkets then sold it to pub company Global Star in July 2007. [3]
The Yew Tree Estate is a residential area of Walsall and West Bromwich located at the border with both Sandwell and the Walsall Borough in the West Midlands County, England. The Sandwell Ward is called Great Barr with Yew Tree with which at the 2011 census had a population of 12,597 and in 2024 now has a population of 13,491. [1]
Pearman-Smith was Walsall's mayor from 1899 to 1902. [1] [2] Park Hall was demolished in the 1950s. [3] Park Hall primary school [clarification needed] was opened on the site of the hall in 1970. It outgrew its original building, so a junior school, which was used as a community centre until 2013, known as Park Hall Community Centre, was built ...
The Lodge Farm estate is located in the area of Short Heath in the town of Willenhall, which is in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall.. The estate is centred primarily within the interior loop of Stroud Avenue.
An original Mitchells & Butlers Brewery pub, The Queens Arms, in central Birmingham. Other acquisitions included Holder's Brewers, who owned Birmingham's Midland Brewery, in 1919, [6] and the Highgate & Walsall Brewery in 1939. [7] The company merged with Bass in 1961. [3]
An entry from Walsall Wood in history by Walsall Council, states that "In the late 19th century the Company took over the Pelsall Coal & Iron Company, whose engineer developed and put into use one of the first coal cutting machines in the country". [56] After closure of the colliery, the area around it was redeveloped for housing. [57]