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WV Active Aldersley is a leisure facility wholly owned by City of Wolverhampton Council. It provides training and competition facilities for athletics, cycling and target shooting. [ 4 ] Aldersley Stadium, a part of the facility, was built in 1956 and has an athletics track with a banked cycle track around its perimeter. [ 5 ]
The city centre includes the main shopping centres: the Mander Centre (named after the Mander family whose paint factory once stood on the site) and Wulfrun Centre), the Civic Centre (the headquarters of the city council), the main campus of the University of Wolverhampton and the terminus of the West Midlands Metro.
It received a Civic Trust Award in 1979. [7] Queen Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh visited the civic centre and met with civic leaders on 24 June 1994 and signed the visitors' book before departing for a tour of the new Molineux Stadium.
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The stadium has hosted England internationals and, more recently, England under-21 internationals, as well as the first UEFA Cup Final in 1972. Molineux is a 31,750 all-seater stadium, but it consistently attracted much greater attendances when it was mostly terracing. The record attendance is 61,315. Plans were announced in 2010 for a £40 ...
The council meets and has its main offices at Wolverhampton Civic Centre, in St Peter's Square in the city centre. [39] The building was purpose-built for the council and opened in 1979. [40] [41] Prior to 1979 the council had met at the Town Hall on North Street, which had been completed in 1871 for the old borough council. [42]
On 23 November 1981, an F1/T2 tornado touched down in Fordhouses to the north of Wolverhampton, and later moved over Wolverhampton city centre and surrounding suburbs, causing some damage. [54] The Wolverhampton Ring Road circumnavigates the city centre linking the majority of the city's radial routes. It was constructed in sections between ...
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