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A large area of public open space, known as Russells Hall park, exists around the centre of the estate and in 2005 was earmarked by Dudley council as a possible site for mass housing development. The park has a children’s play area, skatepark and a non-turf cricket pitch. [5]
Bus services 11/11A (Walsall to Dudley via Wednesbury) and Diamond Bus service 229 (Bilston to Dudley via Sedgley and Tipton) pass the museum on a regular daily basis. Currently under construction is an extension to the Midland Metro tram system which will initially run between the current line in Wednesbury and Dudley town centre. A stop will ...
The Dudley Hippodrome was a theatre in the town of Dudley, West Midlands, England. The Hippodrome was built in 1938 on the site of the Dudley Opera House, which was destroyed by fire in 1936, [2] and remained open as a variety theatre until 1964. It subsequently operated as a bingo hall by Gala Bingo before closing in 2009.
Dudley Town Hall (an events venue) opened on St James's Road in 1928; it stands next to council offices which were converted from the old Police Station in 1939, after the construction of a new building on nearby New Street. [42] Dudley is the administrative centre of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, governed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
Doors Open Days (also known as Open House or Open Days in some communities) provide free access to buildings not normally open to the public. The first Doors Open Day took place in France in 1984, [1] [clarification needed] and the concept has spread to other places in Europe (see European Heritage Days), North America, [2] Australia and elsewhere.
The second part of the new complex was the council house in Priory Road. It was built with financial support from Earl of Dudley, [8] who laid the foundation stone in June 1934. [1] It was designed by the same architect in a similar style, built with similar materials and was officially opened by the Duke of Kent in December 1935. [1]
The hall was built in 1825, in the grounds of Dudley Priory. The priory and its estate had been granted, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, to Edward Sutton, 4th Baron Dudley in 1554. [2] John Ward, 1st Earl of Dudley, the later inheritor of the estate, built the hall on a site north-west of the remains of the priory. The ruins, which ...