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The coat of arms of William Vardon of Goldstone Hall (1783–1856), lord of the manor of Goldstone, from his memorial inside St. Swithun's Church, Cheswardine. The heraldry of the shield is Or, Fretty Gules, illustrating the connection with the de Verdun/Verdon family of Alton, Staffordshire; the crest of a stag's head should have antlers, but these broke off many years ago
City Hospital (formerly Dudley Road Hospital, and still commonly referred to as such) was a major hospital located in Birmingham, England, operated by the Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. It provided an extensive range of general and specialist hospital services. It is located in the Winson Green area of the west of the city.
Map of the Birmingham Metropolitan Area showing its built-up areas, morphological boundaries and catchment zones. The Birmingham Metropolitan Area is an urban agglomeration located in the West Midlands region of England with a population of around 4.3 million people, making it the second largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. [3]
Winson Green is a loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England.It is part of the ward of Soho. [1]It is the location of HM Prison Birmingham [2] (known locally as Winson Green Prison or "the Green") and of City Hospital [3] (formerly Dudley Road Hospital) [4] as well as of the former All Saints' Hospital.
Cheswardine (/ tʃ ɛ z w ʊər d aɪ n / CHEZ-war-dyne) is a rural village and civil parish in north east Shropshire, England.The village lies close to the border with Staffordshire and is about 8 miles north of Newport and 5 miles south east of Market Drayton.
NHS West Midlands (also known as West Midlands Strategic Health Authority) was created in July 2006, following the merger of Birmingham and The Black Country, Shropshire and Staffordshire, and West Midlands South SHAs. It covered an area of approximately 5,000 square miles (13,000 km 2) with a population of approximately 5.4 million.
It was built in the Winson Green area, to the west of the city centre. The main entrance building, though derelict, survived until demolition in September 2017. Its arched entrance was known as "the arch of tears". [2] The remainder of the workhouse was demolished in the early 1990s. [1] In 1889 a hospital was built as an extension to the ...
The West Midlands is unusual amongst the metropolitan counties in that three of its boroughs have city status; Coventry is a city by ancient prescriptive usage, [17] Birmingham was granted city status in 1889, [18] and Wolverhampton in 2000 as a "Millennium City".