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The Black Country Living Museum (formerly the Black Country Museum) is an open-air museum of rebuilt historic buildings in Dudley, West Midlands, England. [1] It is located in the centre of the Black Country , 10 miles west of Birmingham .
The Carters Yard at the Black Country Living Museum is a prime example. The Carters Yard contains a stable carefully dismantled and moved from Burntwood, Cannock. It stood in the backyard of a cottage in Ogley Hay Road and was probably built in 1900. The building was donated to the museum in the 1990s.
Window of pawnbrokers shop at Black Country Living Museum. Pawnshops prospered in areas where the wages were low and unstable. In the Black Country in 1870 there were 160 pawnbrokers in the area, Walsall had 15 and Wednesbury had 48. [2] For a housewife with a large family to look after it was a constant struggle to make ends meet.
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The Black Country Living Museum has more than 40 old mine shafts on its site, [1] which have largely been lost, in-filled, collapsed, stabilised or capped. One of the original surviving shafts has been used to create the Racecourse Colliery exhibit.
The shop lay untouched from 1968 to 1973, when the fittings and stock were donated to The Black Country Living Museum. The shop now located in The Black Country Living Museum is built using bricks reclaimed from two houses which were demolished in Pearson Street, Old Hill. The original shop front was also rescued and forms part of the exhibit ...
A Black Country steelworks that operated for 125 years has been commemorated with a large sculpture near its former site. The former Round Oak Steelworks in Brierley Hill, which operated from 1857 ...
Family and friends are back at home and work following the holiday weekend, but fridges may still be packed full of Thanksgiving leftovers.For folks wondering how long the turkey, potatoes and ...
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