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Walsall is the traditional home of the English saddle manufacturing industry, hence the nickname of Walsall Football Club, "the Saddlers". Apart from leather goods, other industries in Walsall include iron and brass founding, limestone quarrying, small hardware, plastics, electronics, chemicals and aircraft parts.
The area later recorded in the 1841 United Kingdom census as Vigo, Walsall Wood. [6] In a 1901 Ordnance Survey map of Walsall Wood, the area was also recorded as part of the village. [ 7 ] The area has since formed part of Walsall Wood, with its name preserved in street names such as "Vigo Close", "Vigo Terrace" and "Vigo Road".
Walsall Museum was a small, local history museum located in the centre of Walsall in the West Midlands.The holdings of Walsall Museum ranged from seventeenth-century firemarks to twenty-first century posters.
William Henry Duignan (16 August 1824 – 27 March 1914) [1] was a solicitor who lived in and around the town of Walsall for his entire life. He was better known as an antiquarian, writer, historian and local politician and wrote a number of books and pamphlets about local history and especially on the etymology of place naming, many of which are still available today.
The Chuckery was located to the east of Walsall town centre, and had several different pitches which were used by Walsall Swifts and Walsall Town. When the two clubs merged in 1888, they continued playing at the Chuckery on the Town pitch. The Town pitch was chosen as it was located closer to the cricket pavilion, the only facility at the ...
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The Shire Oak Pub. The Shire Oak tree is mentioned in 1533. [1]Shire Oak is mentioned in Shaw's History and Antiquities of Staffordshire of 1798 under Stonall, in connection with the Shire Oak Tree at the boundary of Shenstone parish and Walsall Wood, a ¼ mile from Shire Oak Farm on Shire Oak Hill.
Pheasey is a residential area of Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, often considered to be part of Great Barr.The area was predominantly developed for housing, as the Pheasey Estate, in the 1930s, but work was not completed until after the Second World War. [1]