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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.
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 ]
Walsall was a rural district in Staffordshire, England from 1894 to 1934. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 based on Walsall rural sanitary district, and included the five parishes of Aldridge, Bentley, Great Barr, Pelsall and Rushall. Four of these parishes were to the east of Walsall, and Bentley was to the west, forming an exclave.
The top lock of the eight Walsall Locks, which lower the level by 65 feet (20 m), is reached after 0.4 miles (0.64 km). At the bottom of the flight is Walsall Junction, where the Walsall Canal continues straight ahead and the short Walsall Town Arm turns to the east. [7]
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.
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 ...
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 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 ...