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Research Article
Oldbury grew from a small rural settlement into one of the Black Country’s heavily industrialised towns. Canals, coal, iron, chemicals and engineering transformed its landscape, while later redevelopment gave Oldbury a new…
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Oldbury was not always the densely developed Black Country town we recognise today. In the seventeenth century it was still a small country settlement, home to smallholders and…
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