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AccuWeather, Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services. AccuWeather was founded in 1962 by Joel N. Myers, then a Pennsylvania State University graduate student working on a master's degree in meteorology. His first customer was a gas company in Pennsylvania. While running his company ...
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.
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In 1727, the town became a stop on the coaching road between London and Shrewsbury and the beginning of its growth dates from this time. The prefix 'West' serves to distinguish it from the village of Castle Bromwich, around 8 miles (13 km) to the east on the other side of Birmingham.
The local government structure within North Worcestershire and South Staffordshire before the West Midlands 1965 reorganisation. Official use of the name came in 1987 with the Black Country Development Corporation, an urban development corporation covering the metropolitan boroughs of Sandwell and Walsall, which was disbanded in 1998. [12]
Swan Creek is an unincorporated community on the border with James Township at Swan Creek and Van Wormer Roads. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] A post office operated from July 15, 1869, until October 16, 1871, and from October 20, 1892, until September 15, 1927.
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.