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©Mike Jackson
No trolley buses operate on the Dudley Road forty years later. Please compare this image with [[[566140]]] The Methodist Chapel and all the housing on the right has gone, and the terrace this side of the trolley bus has been replaced by a small grassy area with trees. These trees must be not far short of forty years old, so demolition must have taken place soon after the 1966 picture was taken. The “Grinding” firm is now a tyre fitting operation (which I think has expanded a few metres north from its 1967 position to take advantage of some of the released land). In the middle distance, new housing is set back from the road. The road, which was wide in 1966, has been narrowed down in recent months to provide designated parking bays, and pavements have been built out into the former road space to accommodate larger bus shelters without blocking the pavement. Consequently, the number 558 bus (replacing the number 58 trolley bus in Alan’s picture) passing Johnson Street is pushed right out to the middle of what was a wide carriageway. A red car is parked where the trolley bus was passing by forty years earlier. The red brick building in the distance is the former Dudley Road Primary School; the building in front of it is ready for demolition; both are visible in the 1966 photograph.
©Roger Kidd
©Roger Kidd
The pub stands on Dudley Road.
©Gordon Griffiths
This small seated area stands on the corner of Johnson Street and the very busy A459 Dudley Road, Wolverhampton.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.1km<br/>By the time I visited Wolverhampton's trolleybus system, it was reduced to the long route 58 to Dudley. This view is noted as taken on Dudley Road. Modern aerial views have not enabled the location to be confirmed - there is no sign of a building now to match the chapel in the background - but I was reasonably sure that I had it correct, with the street to the right of the trolleybus being Johnson Street. Roger Kidd's up-to-date image http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/568941 shows the same location some 40 years later. For a slide show of British Trolleybuses in the late 60s http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1773236&displayclass=slide
©Alan Murray-Rust
Dist:0.1km<br/>Ernest Cox was responsible for finding many of the ships from the German High Seas Fleet that were scuttled in Scapa Flow on 17th June 1919. Out of the 74 ships that were interned at Scapa Flow, 51 were sunk and 43 of them subsequently raised. Only 8 still remain. The total weight of the ships that were sunk was over 400,000 tons. The largest salvage operation in history was soon underway and the Scapa Flow Salvage and Shipbreaking Company was formed in 1923, to raise some of the torpedo boats. Over the next 8 years he undertook a massive operation to raise the ships. It was to become one of the greatest feats of marine salvage ever accomplished. He purchased and modified an old German floating dry dock and lifted 26 torpedo boats, and broke them up for scrap in between August 1924 and April 1926. ...and there's more where that came from!! The text by Ian Jukes is copied from this superb account of his life http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/plaques/DudleyRd2.htm .
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.1km<br/>The school was opened in 1875, and closed in 1986. I remember in the early 1980s it was being used as an excellent language centre for teaching English and reading/writing to children of non-English speaking families, and other children with reading difficulties. I believe it was closed because it was costing too much to do a valuable and well structured job properly. The building is now "listed" and used as a community centre. Excellent web-page: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/DudleyRdSchool.htm
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.1km<br/>This temple, the Ek Niwas Universal Divine Temple, was opened in 1995. It seems to involve Sikh and Hindu faiths. Its bright appearance is sometimes compromised by the large dogs which "welcome" interested passers by. Some information can be read on pages 20/21 here, http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/casas/papers/pdfpapers/skanda.pdf , but other web pages should be consulted for a fuller account. The "regeneration" of Blakenhall, especially Dudley Road, has included colourful street furniture and paving.
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.1km<br/>The school was opened in 1875, and closed in 1986. I remember in the early 1980s it was being used as an excellent language centre for teaching English and reading/writing to children of non-English speaking families, and other children with reading difficulties. I believe it was closed because it was costing too much to do a valuable and well structured job properly. The building is now "listed" and used as a community centre. Excellent web-page: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/DudleyRdSchool.htm
©Roger Kidd
Dist:0.1km<br/>A programme of council house building was undertaken after the Great War. These houses on the Green Lane Estate, built around a green, date from around 1920.
©John M
Dist:0.1km<br/>Early council housing on the Green Lane Estate dating from the early 1920s. The estate takes its name from the original name for Birmingham Road. The road was renamed following construction of the Birmingham New Road.
©John M
Dist:0.2km<br/>The Pub stands on Dudley Road at the corner with Sedgley Street.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.2km<br/>Unusual variant amongst the 1920s council housing on the Green Lane Estate.
©John M
Dist:0.2km<br/>This Victorian factory was built in about 1865 for Robert Stroud, a manufacturer of tin trunks, tinware and japanned goods. The building has been "listed" since 2004, so maybe grant funded maintenance on the frontage, and structure behind can be expected soon. At present some small operators work from the premises. Two sources of historical information can be found here: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/general/stroud.htm http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/Niphon Works.htm Update November 2010. This building is in a mess. An application to convert to flats must be granted very soon in order for the frontage to be saved and integrated into the new design. Look at this!! http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=16751
©Roger Kidd

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