18 August 2026
From ancient parish churches to Victorian chapels built for rapidly growing industrial communities, places of worship have played an important part in Sandwell's history. Their surviving buildings and records preserve…
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From medieval manor houses and timber-framed homes to Victorian town halls, libraries and industrial structures, Sandwell's historic buildings reveal centuries of change across the six towns.
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Historic photographs, maps, newspapers, council records and personal memories allow us to rediscover Sandwell's changing towns. Explore the surviving evidence that helps preserve the stories of places, industries and communities…
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From church schools and Victorian board schools to technical colleges and modern comprehensive education, Sandwell's schools reflect more than a century of enormous social change across the Black Country.
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From canals and railways to tramways, roads and bridges, transport played a major part in Sandwell's transformation into one of Britain's great industrial areas. Discover how increasingly connected transport networks…
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The Rowley Hills have dominated the landscape around Rowley Regis for centuries, but industry dramatically changed their appearance. Discover the story of Rowley Rag, the huge quarries that extracted it…
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From an ancient hilltop parish to quarrying, mining and heavy industry, Rowley Regis has a distinctive Black Country history. Discover how Rowley Hills stone, coal, transport and expanding communities shaped…
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Collieries, ironworks, furnaces, canals and factories once dominated Tipton. Much of that landscape has disappeared beneath housing, roads and reclaimed land, but surviving waterways, structures and place names still reveal…
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Once a scattered rural community, Tipton became one of the most intensely industrialised parts of the Black Country. Coal, iron, canals and engineering transformed its landscape before twentieth-century reclamation changed…
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Wednesbury was an industrial community centuries before the factories and furnaces normally associated with the Black Country. Coal mining, ironstone extraction, medieval pottery and water-powered ironworking reveal a remarkable manufacturing…
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From an ancient hilltop settlement to a centre of coal mining, ironworking and manufacturing, Wednesbury has one of the deepest histories of Sandwell's six towns. Discover how centuries of industry,…
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West Bromwich's modern centre is not where the earliest settlement developed. From the old village around All Saints to the growth of the High Street, Victorian civic buildings and twentieth-century…
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