About Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank
This group is for photos of any Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank landmarks including The Thorns, The Mount, Speedway Stadium .. famous, locally known or a piece of Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank history.
Not covered by Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank group ....
Old Hill, Lye, Merry Hill, Netherton, Blackheath, Warley, Haden Hill, Halesowen, Oldnall, Rowley Regis or Tanhouse.
Rules
1 - Photos that locals will recognise.
2 - Photos that visitors will can/could spot.
3 - Please make sure the picture has a title and a comment that are
informative to locals and visitor to Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank.
4 - Please .. no photos of your garden, inside your office, trees, etc. ... basically only Cradley Heath, Cradley & Quarry Bank landmarks.
5 - Please tag all pics 'Cradley Heath' or 'Cradley' or 'Quarry Bank'.
6 - Any photos not deemed suitable or of a landmark of Cradley Heath, Cradley or Quarry Bank will be removed..sorry.
About Cradley Heath
Cradley Heath was originally a village in the south Staffordshire countryside, near the border with Worcestershire. It was part of the borough of Rowley Regis until 1966, Warley County Borough from 1966 to 1974, and since 1974 has been part of Sandwell. Cradley Heath was originally an area of heath in the Staffordshire parish of Rowley Regis, in which the residents of Cradley had grazing rights, subject to an annual payment to the lord of the manor. As on other commons in the Black Country, cottages were built encroaching on the heath. These were occupied by nailmakers and other smiths. From the introduction of machine-based nail-making around 1830, Cradley Heath developed two prolific industries - chainmaking and nailmaking - which would remain strong for decades afterwards. It was only during the 1980s recession that the iron-working industries based in Cradley Heath began to decline. The Papers of the Cradley Heath Chainmakers' Trade Union are housed at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. The Workers Institute which stood in Lower High Street for almost 100 years will be rebuilt at the Black Country Living Museum. It is being demolished to make way for a bypass that was originally proposed in the 1960s. Cradley Heath today is a traditional shopping centre, offering an alternative to modern malls. It has two markets and numerous privately owned shops and businesses. It is home to the Black Country Bugle Newspaper. It has two main parks: Haden Hill and Mary McArthur memorial gardens (known locally as Lomie Town park). The town is served by Cradley Heath railway station. Heathfield Foundation Technology College is located within the area too. There is a new bypass being built (2006-7) and a massive new Tesco!
About Cradley
Cradley is a small village in the "Black Country" of Worcestershire, near Halesowen and the banks of the river Stour. It was part of the ancient parish of Halesowen, but (unlike much of the rest of that parish (which was an exclave of Shropshire) was always in Worcestershire, until the creation of the West Midlands County in 1974. There are two villages named Cradley in the Midlands of England; the "other" Cradley lies about 30 miles to the south, near to the Malvern Hills in south Worcestershire, but just across the county boundary in Herefordshire. In the 1800s a new settlement grew up in heathland on the other side of the river, and became known as Cradley Heath. This was in the ancient parish of Rowley Regis. Previously the residents of Cradley had had the right to graze their animals of that heath, subject to a small annual payment to the lord of the manor. Cradley is mentioned in a charter made by King Edred of England, King of the West Saxons (946 A.D. - 955 A.D.) in the year 950.
About Quarry Bank....aka QB & Quarry Bonk.
Quarry Bank is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, West Midlands, England. Locally, the name is often pronounced, "Quarry Bonk". The earliest settlements in Quarry Bank were farms and farm-worker's houses; some industrial developments followed in the early 17th, round the Cradley Forge. Formerly part of the parish of Kingswinford, Quarry Bank acquired its own parish status in September 1844. Quarry Bank was an urban district of Staffordshire from 1894 to 1934, when it was added to the Brierley Hill urban district. This became part of the county borough of Dudley in 1966 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in West Midlands since 1974. Quarry Bank has become greatly affected by the adjacent Merry Hill Shopping Centre which has bought high volumes of traffic along the High Street. This has meant demolition of a number of homes, the closure of the top end of the former High Street, and construction of a new replacement section of High Street to try and cope with traffic. An unusual feature of Quarry Bank is its long steep High Street, hence "Bank", which slopes from the bottom end where it meets the neighbouring town of Cradley Heath to the top at the junction with Thorns Road. Clinging to the hillside, and varying from varying from very steep to almost flat, it has changed little, except for modernisation of shop fronts. Major retail chains have bypassed the town, leaving just small independent traders and public houses.
Read about Stourbridge - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradley_Heath
Read about Stourbridge - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradley,_Worcestershire
Read about Stourbridge - Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarry_Bank
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