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The Black Country Living Museum (formerly the Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. [1] It is located in the centre of the Black Country , 10 miles west of Birmingham .
Black Country Museum officials decided to move the building to its current site in 1989 and the relocation was completed in October 1990, with the exhibit opening to the public in 1991.
Window of pawnbrokers shop at Black Country Living Museum. Pawnshops prospered in areas where the wages were low and unstable. In the Black Country in 1870 there were 160 pawnbrokers in the area, Walsall had 15 and Wednesbury had 48. [2] For a housewife with a large family to look after it was a constant struggle to make ends meet.
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The Black Country Living Museum has more than 40 old mine shafts on its site, [1] which have largely been lost, in-filled, collapsed, stabilised or capped. One of the original surviving shafts has been used to create the Racecourse Colliery exhibit.
The shop lay untouched from 1968 to 1973, when the fittings and stock were donated to The Black Country Living Museum. The shop now located in The Black Country Living Museum is built using bricks reclaimed from two houses which were demolished in Pearson Street, Old Hill. The original shop front was also rescued and forms part of the exhibit ...
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Stepping inside a time capsule. The one-story, nearly-8,000-square-foot fortification is bulwarked by concrete walls 30 inches thick. The two exterior entrances have armored steel blast doors ...