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Walsall Castle, also known as Walsall Moat, [1] or le Mote [2] during the 1400s, [1] was a 12th or 13th-15th century moated manor house in the market town of Walsall in the West Midlands. [3] The current site of the castle is occupied by a car park for the nearby Walsall Manor Hospital and the moat ran along what is now southern Moat Street ...
Walsall Mutual Benefit Society held its first meeting in 1863 but little is known of its early history other than it was very small and stayed that way for a century. Its assets were only £65,000 by the onset of WWI, and less than £500,000 by WWII. It was not until 1949 that the Society decided that it needed a full-time Secretary but under ...
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 Walsall Anarchists were a group of anarchists arrested on explosive charges in Walsall, present-day West Midlands, England in 1892. [ 1 ] Recent research into police files has revealed that the bombings were instigated by Auguste Coulon, an agent provocateur of Special Branch Inspector William Melville , who would go on to become an early ...
WMP museum - Walsall Borough Police helmet badge in the West Midlands Police Museum The force was created on 6 July 1832 with one superintendent and three constables . [ 1 ] Following the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 , the force came under the control of Walsall Corporation, via a watch committee . [ 1 ]
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] Barr Beacon, a hill, is a local landmark. [1]
Great Barr Hall is an 18th-century mansion situated in the Great Barr district of Pheasey, Walsall, West Midlands, England. It has associations with the Lunar Society and is a Grade II listed building. [1] It is, however, in a very poor state of repair and is on the Buildings at Risk Register.
In 2019 there were four former Walsall trolleybuses which had been preserved. No.342 is kept at The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft. It was one of the batch of Sunbeam F4s bought in 1951, and was extended in 1965. It ran until the last day of operation, and was then acquired by the Reading Trolleybus Society, who moved it to Sandtoft.