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Bushbury
Bushbury is a suburban village and ward in the City of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. It lies two miles north-east of Wolverhampton city centre, divided between the Bushbury North and Bushbury South and Low Hill Ward (politics), wards. Bushbury also lies near to the villages of Coven, Staffordshire, Coven, Featherstone, Staffordshire, Featherstone and Four Ashes, Staffordshire, Four Ashes which are in South Staffordshire. Bushbury is a mixed area of private and council owned houses, built since the 1920s, and lies in the shadow and on the slope of Bushbury Hill. History Bushbury was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as 'Biscopsberie'. Toponymists believe that the name comes from the Old English 'biscop' (bishop) and 'burh' (fortification), so Bushbury possibly means 'Bishops fortification'. St Mary's Church (Bushbury), St. Mary's Church lies on Bushbury Lane. In the chancel of the church can be found the 'Founders Arch', this is actua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Of Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of Walsall to the east and Dudley to the south. The population in 2021 was 263,700, making it the third largest city in the West Midlands after Birmingham and Coventry. Historically in Staffordshire, Wolverhampton grew as a market town specialising in the wool trade. During the Industrial Revolution, it became a major centre for coal mining, steel production, lock making, and automotive manufacturing; the economy of the city is still based on engineering, including a large aerospace industry, as well as the service sector. The city is also home to the University of Wolverhampton. A town for most of its history, it gained city status in 2000. The M6 motorway runs just outside Wolverhampton's east and northeast borders, while the M54 motorway starts to the north an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn, West Midlands
Penn is an area divided between the The City of Wolverhampton, City of Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire district. The population of the Wolverhampton Ward taken at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 12,718. Originally, it was a village in the Counties of the United Kingdom, historic county of Staffordshire. The area to the east of Penn Road (A449 road, A449) and around St Bartholomew's church is referred to as Upper Penn, historically also as Penn Over. The village within South Staffordshire, and around St Anne's church is Lower Penn or Penn Under. These historic usages tend to confirm that the name has long been considered to refer to the ridge to the east, which is ascended via Church Hill, Wakeley Hill or Mount Road. It is not clear exactly which areas fall within Penn. In 19th century censuses, Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, Merry Hill, Bradmore, West Midlands, Bradmore were understood to form part of Penn, although these areas are generally understood to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northicote School
Northicote School was a co-educational secondary school located in the city Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. History Founding Plans to build the school began in 1948. It was opened as a Secondary Modern School in 1951, in the reign of King George VI. The age range of the school was 11 to 18. It had specialist status in mathematics and computing. Ofsted Inspection It was the first school in Britain to be condemned as "failing" by Ofsted in 1993, but within two years was transformed into a successful school – a remarkable turnaround that saw head teacher Geoff Hampton knighted for his services to education in 1998. Sir Geoff then departed for a professor's role at University of Wolverhampton. The last headteacher of the school was Mr R. Davis. Merger The Northicote School was built as a bilateral school, having both secondary modern and grammar streams during the 1950s to serve the expanding Bushbury area of Wolverhampton, though during the 1970s it converte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreton School
Moreton School is a co-educational secondary school located one-mile north east of Wolverhampton City Centre in the West Midlands of England. The school accommodates over 700 pupils. History It was originally formed as a boys school, Bushbury Hill School, in 1931, but later became co-educational and was renamed Moreton Community School. Previously a community school administered by Wolverhampton City Council, in March 2017 Moreton Community School converted to academy status and was renamed Moreton School. The school is now sponsored by the Amethyst Academies Trust. Although the school technically has a sixth form provision, in practice all sixth form education within the Amethyst Academies Trust now takes place at Aldersley High School Aldersley High School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Pendeford area of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands of England. Despite the name, Aldersley High School is not in Aldersley, but straddles the Wolverhamp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Twentyman
(Alfred) Richard Twentyman (1903–1979) was an England, English architect based in Wolverhampton; chiefly known for modernist buildings around the English midlands. Life Twentyman was born in 1903 in Bilbrook, Staffordshire, Bilbrook, Staffordshire. He was educated at Cambridge University where he studied engineering and then architecture at the Architectural Association in London. In 1933 he joined H. E. Lavender in Wolverhampton and formed Lavender and Twentyman. He served with the Royal Engineers during World War II. Twentyman was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects#RIBA Awards, RIBA bronze medal in 1953 and received a Civic Trust Award in 1970. He was an accomplished watercolourist and painter in oils, holding an exhibition of his works at a London gallery in 1978. An oil painting by him, ''Pigeon Loft, Sedgley'', is held by Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The gallery held an exhibition of his paintings and drawings after his death. Twentyman died on 13 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolverhampton Council
City of Wolverhampton Council is the local authority for the city of Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, England. Wolverhampton has had an elected local authority since 1848, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city. The council has been a member of the West Midlands Combined Authority since 2016. The council has been under Labour majority control since 2011. It is based at the Civic Centre on St Peter's Square. History Wolverhampton gained the beginnings of modern local government in 1777, when a body of improvement commissioners known as the Wolverhampton Town Commissioners was created. The commissioners undertook a variety of local improvement work such as punishing bear baiting, improving drainage and widening streets. By the end of the eighteenth century street lighting had been provided at every street corner and over the doorway of every inn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry Blitz
The Coventry Blitz ( blitz: from the German word ''Blitzkrieg'' meaning "lightning war" ) was bombing that took place on the British city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force (''Luftwaffe''). The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940 and continued into the morning of 15 November. Background At the start of the Second World War, Coventry was an industrial city of around 238,000 people which, like much of the industrial West Midlands, contained metal and wood-working industries. In Coventry's case, these included cars, bicycles, aeroplane engines and, since 1900, munitions factories. In the words of the historian Frederick Taylor, "Coventry was therefore, in terms of what little law existed on the subject, a legitimate target for aerial bombing". During the First World War, the advanced state of the mechanical tooling industry in the city meant that pre-war producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorsebrook
Gorsebrook is an historic area of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, located alongside the Stafford Road between the areas of Dunstall, Oxley and Bushbury. Place name and origins The first mention of Gorsebrook is in the 985 AD Charter where King Æthelred grants 10 hides of land to Wulfrun primarily in the Wolverhampton area. The place name appears in the bounds of the grant, in Old English at both the beginning and the end as ''gose broc''. The modern translation for this is ''goose brook''. The brook in question likely refers to the section of the Smestow Brook that winds east to west through this area. History Not much is known about Gorsebrook throughout most of its history. The early English place name relates to the brook running through the centre of the area. In 1849, the Stafford Road Works opened in Gorsebrook, to build and maintain locomotives. The works had what was at one time regarded as Wolverhampton's best football club, Stafford Road F.C., founded in 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goodyear Tire And Rubber Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company is an American multinational tire manufacturer headquartered in Akron, Ohio. Goodyear manufactures tires for passenger vehicles, aviation, commercial trucks, military and police vehicles, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, race cars, and heavy off-road machinery. It also licenses the Goodyear brand to bicycle tire manufacturers, returning from a break in production between 1976 and 2015. As of 2017, Goodyear is one of the top five tire manufacturers along with Bridgestone (Japan), Michelin (France), Pirelli (Italian) and Continental AG, Continental (Germany). Founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling, the company was named after American Charles Goodyear (1800–1860), inventor of Vulcanization, vulcanized rubber. The first Goodyear tires became popular because they were easily detachable and required little maintenance. Though Goodyear had been manufacturing airships and balloons since the early 1900s, the first Goodyear Blimp, Goodyear advertising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting took place mainly in European theatre of World War I, Europe and the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I, Middle East, as well as in parts of African theatre of World War I, Africa and the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I, Asia-Pacific, and in Europe was characterised by trench warfare; the widespread use of Artillery of World War I, artillery, machine guns, and Chemical weapons in World War I, chemical weapons (gas); and the introductions of Tanks in World War I, tanks and Aviation in World War I, aircraft. World War I was one of the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflicts in history, resulting in an estimated World War I casualties, 10 million military dead and more than 20 million wounded, plus some 10 million civilian de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essington
Essington is a village and civil parish in the South Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England, northeast of the city of Wolverhampton. Nearby are the towns of Bloxwich and Cannock and the villages of Cheslyn Hay, Great Wyrley (Landywood) and Featherstone, Staffordshire, Featherstone. The parish borders the county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands and in 2021 had a population of 5,200. History In 1870–1872 the ''Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales'' described Essington as a Township (England), township in the parish of Bushbury, with a post office and 187 houses. The population had risen from 644 in 1851 to 976 in 1861, "from the extension of mining operations", and an tin tabernacle, iron church with room for 260 people had been built in 1858–1859. Village The remains of several moated sites from the Middle Ages have been found in the parish. Brownshore Pools, a public park, is the site of three former Tailings, coal mining tailing and settling ponds surr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
