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Oldbury council built several thousands houses, flats and bungalows for some 40 years until its disbandment, the 1, 000th of which was completed in 1933 at Wallace Road near the border with Rowley Regis.
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The mass council house building of the 1920s and 1930s also involved Smethwick's boundaries being extended into part of neighbouring Oldbury in 1928.
Skinner was born at Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich, and grew up in a council house in neighbouring Oldbury.
Although located within the original Dudley and Tipton council areas, most of Tividale is classified within the Oldbury B69 postal district, with the remainder falling into Tipton DY4.
However, most of Brandhall was developed in the 1950s and 1960s, when several thousand council houses, flats and bungalows were built by Oldbury Council.
Oldbury and built
The M5 has served Oldbury since 1964 and passes the town on an elevated section built on reinforced concrete pillars.
Churchdown has several interesting old structures including the Old School House on The Green, where the first village school was held, Ye Old House on Sandfield Road ( thought to have been built in the 16th century, Dunstan Cottage in Chapel Hay Lane and The Cottage on Oldbury Orchard.
In 1885 three carriages were bought from Oldbury which were originally built for the Golden Valley Railway in 1881 but returned due to the lack of money.
The carriages now numbered 55 but a number of the 1864-76 built Oldbury carriages and the Ex Golden Valley brake van were withdrawn in 1914 with the introduction of 18 Ex Metropolitan Railway carriages.
Sprite is a historical British make of motorcycle, built by Hipkin & Evans, Sprite Motor Cycles, Oldbury, and later by Sprite Developments Ltd., Halesowen, Worcester ( 1965 – 1971 ).
Others include the Farriers Arms ( built 1872 ), Railway Tavern ( built 1867 ), Fishponds Tavern ( built 1904 ), Full Moon ( built 1850 ), Golden Lion ( built 1883 ), Cross Keys ( built 1853 ), Cross Hands ( built 1853 ), Old Tavern ( built 1899 ), Greyhound ( built 1883 ), Spotted Cow ( built 1883 ), Portcullis ( built 1853 ), the Warwick Arms ( built 1906 ), and the Oldbury Court ( built 1957 ).
A new company, Dellow Engineering, based in Oldbury near Birmingham produced a Mk VI-often incorrectly quoted as having a glass fibre body, it too was in fact built with alloy panelling.
Oldbury and several
He passed 2 O-levels in summer 1973 and took A-levels in English Language and Art, along with several O-level re-sits, at Oldbury Technical School Sixth Form.
It was originally set around the main Dudley to Oldbury road, with several hundred terraced houses with shop fronts on the main road, as well as many more on the side streets running off.
Oldbury and houses
Before 1841, Bleak Heath or Blake Heath was a small group of farm houses and inns on the turnpike road from Oldbury to Halesowen, within Rowley Regis.
Oldbury and for
Wetherby provides the setting for the novel Oldbury ( 1869 ) by Annie Keary.
Martin Elliott born July 1946-died 24 March 2010 ) Martin, educated at Oldbury Grammar School, was a photographer, best known for the iconic poster " Tennis Girl ".
Jack Judge ( christened John, born in Oldbury, Worcestershire born 3 December 1872, died 25 July 1938, West Bromwich ) was a song-writer and music-hall entertainer best remembered for writing the song It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary.
Passenger services ran to Oldbury Station until March 1915 ; and the line closed completely other than as a freight line for Albright and Wilson.
Destinations served include the UK nuclear power stations at Heysham, Valley ( for Wylfa ), Bridgwater ( for Hinkley Point ), Berkeley ( for Oldbury ), Hunterston, Torness, Seaton-on-Tees, Dungeness and Sizewell.
It was formed in 1966 by the combination of the existing county borough of Smethwick with the municipal boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis ( along with small sections of Birmingham, Dudley, Tipton, West Bromwich and Halesowen as well as an unpopulated fragment of Brierley Hill ), by recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England.
John Horner, the Labour MP for Oldbury and Halesowen stated that while the boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis had supported the creation of the new county borough in 1961, they no longer did so.
The company was taken over by the Reliant Motor Co Ltd of Tamworth, Staffs in 1970 who quickly closed the Preston factory, transferring the spare parts business for the Bond Minicar, 875 saloon, 875 Ranger van and Equipe models to a firm called Bob Joyner & Son in Oldbury in the English Midlands.
There are pleasant walks along the steep wooded banks of the River Frome, for example to Oldbury Court.
* BCU South-responsible for nuclear sites in the south of England ; Culham, Dungeness, Harwell, Hinkley Point, Oldbury, Sizewell
Wylfa was the second British nuclear power station, following Oldbury, to have a pre-stressed concrete pressure vessel instead of steel for easier construction and enhanced safety.
The first prototype, with a revolving turret taken from an Austin armoured car — the first for a British tank design, as Little Willie's original turret was not yet revolving — was ready on 3 February 1917 and participated ( probably without one ) in the famous " tank trials day " at Oldbury on 3 March.
The two companies bought the existing Oldbury and Wylfa Magnox Nuclear Power Stations from the NDA for the sum of £ 500 million.
Charlotte left Oldbury with her children bound for Budgong and later moved to Sydney.
Born in London in 1796, Atkinson was a remarkable figure, carrying her family's interest in art and science to act as governess for Hannibal Macarthur in 1826, meeting James Atkinson on ship ( The Cumberland ) to Sydney and marrying soon after, moving to his home at Oldbury, near Sutton Forest.
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Early reactors have steel pressure vessels, while later units ( Oldbury and Wylfa ) are of prestressed concrete ; some are cylindrical in design, but most are spherical.
The first branch office opened in Oldbury, some six miles ( 10 km ) west of Birmingham, in 1864.
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The Tame is about 40 km from source at Oldbury to its confluence with the Trent near Alrewas, but the main river length of the entire catchment, i. e. the Tame and its main tributaries, is about 285 km.
Oldbury and years
Oldbury was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen, a detached part of Shropshire ( surrounded by Worcestershire and Staffordshire ) until Counties ( Detached Parts ) Act 1844, when it was incorporated back into Worcestershire after an absence of nine-hundred years.
In his early years, the comedian Frank Skinner lived in Oldbury at 181 Bristnall Hall Road.
For over thirty years there were three railway stations in the parish named Oldbury ; only one is still open, but under a new name.
The place name Oldbury, comes from the Old English ' Ealdenbyrig ',-signifying that Oldbury was old even in early English times over 1000 years ago.
Brandhall ( along with the rest of the Oldbury borough, and the neighbouring boroughs of Smethwick and Rowley Regis ) became part of the County Borough of Warley in 1966, but this arrangement lasted just eight years until Warley merged with West Bromwich to form Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in 1974.
Oldbury and until
It also historically formed part of the boundary of an exclave of Shropshire, which contained Halesowen, until the town was transferred to Worcestershire in the 19th century, along with nearby Oldbury.
Indeed, she lived with her daughter Louisa at Kurrajong, and at Oldbury from 1860 until her death in 1867 ; enjoying the fruits of seeing Louisa's nature studies, journalism, and successful novels, and more than likely, participating in their production from the mid 1850's.
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In October 1980, retail giant J Sainsbury opened one of its first SavaCentre hypermarkets in Oldbury town centre.
However a short half-mile long branch line, the Oldbury Railway, was linked to the station with its own ( third ) platform.
The southern arm appears prominently close to Oldbury town centre, which gives it its name, but can be traced back to an industrial area at Titford, just west of the M5 motorway, between Whiteheath and Langley Green.
It winds its way up through Langley and around the southern and eastern edges of Oldbury town centre, surfacing due south of Sandwell and Dudley railway station, from which point it remains mainly on the surface and is easily traced.
Image: Sheepwash Urban Park Tame bank. JPG | Oldbury Arm of the Tame close to its entrance to the Sheepwash Urban Park, between Great Bridge and West Bromwich.
The nearby West Bromwich store also closed around the same time, its fortunes affected by the Merry Hill development as well as smaller developments around nearby Oldbury which started with the SavaCentre hypermarket in 1980.
* The River Bourne begins its course west of Oldbury Hill on the Greensand Ridge in the parish of Ightham and enters the Medway upstream of East Peckham, near Tonbridge.
The stream is thought to be the Oldbury arm of the River Tame, known to the early English in this area as ' grēot ' ( Greets Green also gets its name from the watercourse ).
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