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Dist:0.2km<br/>Founded by Sidney Guy in 1913 the company produced military vehicles during the First World War. Between the wars Guy Motors built commercial vehicles, coaches and trolleybuses. They were unsuccessful with car production. During the Second World War they were the only company with spare capacity available to build buses. They ran into difficulties in the 1950s as trolleybuses went out of fashion and their other bus designs became dated. The firm went into receivership in 1961, eventually being taken over by Jaguar before coming under BMC. Production or assembly continued on the site until the 1970s. Most of the original buildings have been demolished. Part of the site is now used as an industrial estate.
©John M
Dist:0.2km<br/>The bus depot was directly across the road from Guy Motors, the main supplier of buses and trolleybuses to the Corporation fleet. The close connection lasted for many years. It remains a large bus garage used by Travel WM successor to Wolverhampton Corporation Transport Department. The other bus garage in Cleveland Street closed some years ago.
©John M
Dist:0.2km<br/>This pub was built in 1935 between the Fallings Park housing estate and a trading estate.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Roundabout at Guy Avenue, First Avenue and Park Lane.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.3km<br/>The green area between Warren Avenue and Eastcote Road.
©Gordon Griffiths
Dist:0.3km<br/>The entrance to one of Wolverhampton's many industrial parks
©Richard Law
Dist:0.3km<br/>The junction of Second Avenue with Park Lane, in the large Fallings Park estate.
©Richard Law
Dist:0.4km<br/>Henry Meadows Ltd was founded in 1920 to produce three speed gearboxes for cars. They quickly expanded into petrol and later diesel engines for military and commercial vehicles, boats and trains. In the 1950s the site covered an area of 14 acres with a workforce of 1200. The site closed in 1960 and had lain derelict for many years before the factory units were refurbished as warehousing. A clothing manufacturer now occupies part of the original buildings.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>This junction on the Cannock Road in Wolverhampton dates back to the building of the turnpikes. The current Cannock Road to the left shortened the route by cutting off two sides of a triangle.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>The old turnpike road on the left was built cutting off a corner which is now preserved in the 20th century housing development. The road sign with a similar one at the other end of 'The Triangle' dates from the Staffordshire County Council period. The sign from pre 1902 is locally listed and was supplied by W H Smith of Whitchurch.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>A small court of houses built for the 1908 exhibition look out onto a small shared green.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>The railway marks the limit of the fields with factory units on Park Lane on the far side.
©John M
Dist:0.4km<br/>This may have been the face of council housing in the town. An exhibition of housing was held on the Fallings Park 'Triangle' in 1908 with small groups of houses built around courts.
©John M
Dist:0.5km<br/>At the centre of the triangle overlooking the open space the property retains some of the original details.
©John M
Dist:0.5km<br/>Following the plot layout of the Fallings Park Garden Suburb these properties were built in the early 1920s around a small green. The vehicular access is a relatively recent feature.
©John M

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