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Oldbury is a market town in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell, in the county of the West Midlands, England.It is the administrative centre of the borough. At the 2011 census, the town had a population of 13,606, [2] while the 2017 population of the wider built-up area was estimated at 25,488. [3]
Buses from Birmingham city centre to Stourbridge (service no. 9), [36] Wolverhampton (X8) and Gornal Wood (X10) all stop along Hagley Road West. Service no. 24 Birmingham – Woodgate Valley North stops on Court Oak Road, Ridgacre Road, Ridgacre Lane, Highfield Lane, Simmons Drive and Quinton Road West. [ 37 ]
Webster died in 1860 and in 1865, Penns Hall was bought by James Horsfall, whose son Henry was resident there in 1891. In 1947, the property was sold to Ansells who in 1950 converted it into a hotel. During the 1980s, the hotel became famous as the location for exterior filming of the British television soap opera Crossroads. The hotel filled ...
[10] [11] Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, which was formed in 1974, was initially based at West Bromwich Town Hall [12] but moved to modern facilities at the new Sandwell Council House on the east side of Freeth Street, Oldbury in 1989. [13] The municipal buildings in Oldbury went on to serve as the local offices of Citizens Advice. [14]
A 30-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries the next day, [28] and a 19-year-old woman died in hospital from her injuries two days later, [29] as did a 20-year-old woman. [30] A 20-year-old man in a neighbouring house was also injured as a result of the explosion and died in hospital the next day. [ 31 ]
The Cube is a 24-storey mixed-use development in the centre of Birmingham, England.Designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects, it contains 244 flats, 111,500 square feet (10,359 m 2) of offices, shops, a hotel and a 'skyline' restaurant.
Hickmet Hotels took lease of the hotel in 1972, and even after a £500,000 refurbishment, trading conditions proved difficult, and they fell into receivership in 1976. Grand Metropolitan Hotels took over the lease in 1977 and undertook a £1.5 million refurbishment.
The Birmingham Back to Backs (also known as Court 15) are the city's last surviving court of back-to-back houses. They are preserved as examples of the thousands of similar houses that were built around shared courtyards , for the rapidly increasing population of Britain's expanding industrial towns.