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Dudley Archives and Local History holds the archives for the town of Dudley in the West Midlands. 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 ...
Dudley Training College for Teachers was built on 8 acres of land on Eve Hill. The land was bought in 1908 by the County Borough of Dudley from the Earl of Dudley for £8,000. [1] The main college building was designed by a firm of architects named Crouch, Butler & Savage [2] and was built at a cost of £10,799. The site of the new college ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley was created in 1974 from the existing boroughs of Dudley, the Municipal Borough of Stourbridge and the Municipal Borough of Halesowen.. This followed an earlier reorganisation in 1966, as per the provisions of the Local Government Act 1958, which saw an expansion of the three boroughs from the abolition of the surrounding urban districts of Amblecote ...
Dudley Town Hall (an events venue) opened on St James's Road in 1928; it stands next to council offices which were converted from the old Police Station in 1939, after the construction of a new building on nearby New Street. [42] Dudley is the administrative centre of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, governed by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
The Museum and Art Gallery was closed by Dudley Council on 22 December 2016 as part of cost-cutting efforts. [1] A portion of the museum collection was later moved to the Dudley Archives centre [2] on Tipton Road, under the name 'Dudley Museum at The Archives', opening to the public in September 2017. [8]
Dudley Town was founded in 1888, and in 1898 incorporated another club from the town, Dudley St John's, moving onto the latter's ground at Shavers End and entering the Birmingham & District League. After World War I the club was dormant for a number of years, but in 1928 it was re-formed and entered the Cradley Heath and District League, before ...
The Dudley, Sedgley and Wolverhampton Tramways Order of 1884 granted permission but required the widening of the roadway on two narrow sections of route. Modifications to the track were also required so services were suspended from 8 November 1885. [ 5 ]
The junction with the former South Staffordshire Line near New Road, Dudley, was obliterated in the late 1990s when the Dudley Southern By-Pass was built, although the South Staffordshire Line itself has been preserved and is set to re-open to goods trains and was an extension to the Midland Metro tram network from 2023 although cost overruns ...