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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.
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Walsall , but covers a larger area which also includes Aldridge , Bloxwich , Brownhills , Darlaston , Pelsall and Willenhall .
The club was founded in 1888 as Walsall Town Swifts, an amalgamation of Walsall Town and Walsall Swifts. [ 1 ] : 9 The club moved to the Football Alliance from the Midland Association the following year, before being invited to help found the Football League Second Division in 1892.
Walsall Council, formally Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, is the local authority for the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England.The town of Walsall had been a borough from medieval times, which was reformed on numerous occasions.
Goscote is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.The Goscote name dates back several centuries and as recently as the 1920s it was a largely rural area that had survived the recent Industrial Revolution which dramatically altered the face of the region.
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 (/ ˈ w ɔː l s ɔː l / ⓘ, or / ˈ w ɒ l s ɔː l /; locally / ˈ w ɔːr s ʌ l /) is a large market town and administrative centre in West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire , it is located 9 miles (14 km) north-west of Birmingham , 7 miles (11 km) east of Wolverhampton and 9 miles (14 km) from Lichfield .
Daisy Bank is a residential area on the eastern outskirts of the town of Walsall; the Rushall Canal is nearby. It is served by National Express West Midlands no. 934 bus route. [ 1 ] Engineer and philanthropist Samson Fox died at Daisy Bank on 24 October 1903.