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Remains of Swan Village Gas Works. Swan Village is an area of West Bromwich, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands County of England. It is now divided by the Black Country New Road and was the site of the Swan Village Gas Works. [1] Nearby was the junction of the Ridgacre Branch with the Wednesbury Old Canal, both now ...
Swan Village former station site, now part of the Midland Metro. Swan Village railway station was a station on the Great Western Railway's London Paddington to Birkenhead via Birmingham Snow Hill line. It was opened in 1854. [1] It was the junction station where the Dudley Branch of the line diverged from the main line.
Tividale Hall was developed as private housing during the mid-1930s to early 1940s and the final area around Pine Road immediately after the war in the Dudley section of Tividale, but was extended in the 1950s with council housing. Most of the roads in this area are named after trees, including Elm Terrace, Birch Crescent, Pine Road and Ash ...
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Sandwell Valley Country Park was once the site of Sandwell Priory, a 12th-century Benedictine monastery which itself was founded on the site of an earlier hermitage. The monastery was closed on the orders of Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, and by 1705 the land was redeveloped once more, into Sandwell Hall, built for the Earl of Dartmouth.
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, or Sandwell Council, is the local authority of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell in the West Midlands, England. It is a metropolitan borough council and provides the majority of local government services in the borough. The council has been a member of the West Midlands Combined Authority since 2016.
The Rev. Charles Chambille arrived in 1853 to serve the French living in the area, which was then called the "Swan Creek Settlement." Chambille dedicated a church in 1854, which became the nucleus of a village. In 1876, it was renamed to describe its location on Anchor Bay. A post office was established in December 1885. [6]
Birmingham (/ ˈ b ɜːr m ɪ ŋ ə m / ⓘ [6] [7] [8] BUR-ming-əm) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.It is ...