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Dudley Public school opened in 1892 and has among its alumni two recipients of the Victoria Cross.In 1976, the Jeffries and Currey Memorial Library was opened by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Roden Cutler, himself a VC, at Dudley Public School to honour the two ex-pupils who were decorated with the Victoria Cross during the First World War: Clarence Jeffries and William Currey.
Dudley County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. Part of the southern border near the coast is the Apsley River . Dudley County was named in honour of Dudley Ryder , Second Earl of Harrowby (1798-1882).
Within Australia, dialing a number in another area requires dialing the trunk code 0, followed by the area code, and then the local number.. In major centres, the first four digits specify the CCA (Call Collection Area, also known as an exchange), and the remaining digits specify a number at that exchange, up to 10,000 of which may be connected.
Dudley (/ ˈ d ʌ d l i / DUD-lee, locally [ˈdʊdləi̯]) [2] is a market town in the West Midlands, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Wolverhampton and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Birmingham. Historically part of Worcestershire, the town is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley.
The town of Dudley had been a seigneurial borough from the thirteenth century, under the control of the lord of the manor. [2] More modern forms of local government for the town began in 1791 when a body of improvement commissioners was established to pave, light and clean the streets, and supply water. [3]
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The first female Mayor of Dudley was Dr Katherine Churchill Rogers. She was elected in 1971, and then again in 1985. [7] In 1974 the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley was created from the former County Borough of Dudley and other neighbouring local authorities. The first mayor of the new Metropolitan Borough of Dudley was Mrs. Mary J.Pargeter. [7]
The archives are held at Tipton Road, Dudley, and run by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council. [ 1 ] The Archives and Local History Service looks after a collection that is housed in the purpose built Archives and Local History Centre in Dudley and includes records dating back to the 12th century.