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Wordsley was the headquarters of the Royal seedsmen, Webbs of Wordsley. Their grounds covered thousands of acres. A Workhouse was opened at Wordsley in 1903 and became fully operational in 1907, becoming a military hospital during World War I (1914–1918) but became Wordsley Hospital, a civilian hospital, after the end of World War II in 1945 ...
Edward Webb and Sons, a.k.a. Webbs, were English seed merchants or seedsmen, dating back to c. 1850 when Edward Webb started a business in Wordsley, near Stourbridge.By the 1890s, Webb and Sons had been appointed seedsmen to Queen Victoria, and had become a household name around the UK.
Scotland has three indigenous languages: English, Scots, and Scottish Gaelic. [161] [162] Scottish Standard English, a variety of English as spoken in Scotland, is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with broad Scots at the other. [163] Scottish Standard English may have been influenced to varying degrees by Scots.
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At the beginning of the 1980s, Wordsley Hospital was chosen as the site of a new maternity unit to serve the whole Dudley borough and replacing the existing maternity wards at Wordsley as well as Burton Road Hospital in Dudley and Mary Stevens Maternity Home in Stourbridge. Construction work on the new 118-bed maternity unit began during 1985. [3]
Most cones were knocked down after they fell out of use, and by the mid-1970s only four survived: [5] the Alloa cone (the only example in Scotland), [3] Catcliffe Glass Cone in South Yorkshire, Lemington Glass Cone in Tyne and Wear, and Red House Cone in Wordsley, West Midlands. [5]
The Japanese battleship Tosa was a planned battleship of the Imperial Japanese Navy.Designed by Yuzuru Hiraga, Tosa was to be the first of two Tosa-class ships.Displacing 39,900 long tons (40,540 tonnes) and armed with ten 410 mm (16.1 in) guns, these warships would have brought Japan closer to its goal of an "eight–four" fleet (eight battleships and four battlecruisers).
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