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1000
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1000
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Oldbury,
Langley and Warley are hamlets at the northern end of Hales
Manor
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1066
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Norman
invasion of Britain results in the transfer of Oldbury, Langley
and part of Warley [Warley Salop] to Roger de Montgomery,
Earl of Shrewsbury. Remainder of Warley [Warley Wigorn] given
to William FitzAnsculf, based at Dudley
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1100
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1200
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1215
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King
John gives Hales Manor to establish a religious house: the
Premonstratensian Canons build Halesowen Abbey. Oldbury, Langley
and Warley come under the control of the Abbot. Warley Wigorn
is given to the Abbey in 1337
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1300
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1349
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Black
death strikes for first time and at least one third of the population
die |
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1400
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1500
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1529
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Chapel
built in Oldbury to avoid journey to parish church of St John,
Halesowen for worship
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1538
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Halesowen
Abbey surrendered to the King in the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Manor of Hales Owen is given to Sir John Dudley
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1555
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Sir
Robert Dudley sells Manor of Hales Owen, including Warley,
but retains Oldbury and Langley for himself. Oldbury becomes
a separate
manor.
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1600
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1667
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Riot
at Oldbury Chapel on visit of Fifth Monarchy preacher |
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1700
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~1705
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Anglicans
seize Oldbury Chapel and evict the presbyterians
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1708
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New
Presbyterian chapel opened (later becomng the Unitarian Chapel) |
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1715
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Tory
mob attacked and set fire to Presbyterian Chapel |
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~1725
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The
current 'Big House' built on earlier foundations by William
Freeth |
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1730
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Warley
Wigorn Endowed School established, the first in the Oldbury
area |
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1750
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1760
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The
road through from Birmingham to Dudley through Oldbury becomes
a turnpike
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1772
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The
first canal through Oldbury is cut by Brindley, opening opportunities
for industry. |
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~1772
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Coal-mining is quickly established and blast furnaces erected. |
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~1772
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Blakeley
Hall demolished and new farmhouse built, Blakeley Hall
Farm
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~1780
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Non-conformist
preachers arrive: Moravians at Langley Green, and John Wesley
at Quinton |
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1780
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The
Free School (Unitarian) opened |
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1782
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William
Hunt starts an edge-tool factory at 'The Brades' |
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1798
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Independent
Chapel built at Langley Green [now Zion United Reformed Church] |
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1800
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1807
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A
Court
of Requests is opened at Oldbury to deal with debts up to
£5 |
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1816
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Courthouse
and jail opened
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1820
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1820
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The
population of Oldbury starts to expand rapidly as men flock
from the land to Oldbury's industry. Low standard housing is
quickly erected and living conditions deteriorate. |
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1821
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Ebeneezer
Iron Works established in Halesowen Street (later London Iron
Works) |
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1829
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Telford's
new canal opened from Birmingham to Bromford junction by-passing
the summit locks |
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1829
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Oldbury
Enclosure Act passed |
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~1830
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First
Baptist Chapel opened in Canal Street
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1833
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National
Schools in Birmingham Street opened by Anglicans |
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1834
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Oldbury
part of West Bromwich Poor Law Union |
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1835
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Highways
Boards established for Langley and Oldbury to control roads
in the town |
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1835
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First
New Connexion Methodist Chapel, the 'Tabernacle', opened. New
building opened three years later in Tabernacle Street |
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1835
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The
chemical industry is established in the town with the start
of Chance Brothers' Alkali Works, making chemicals for use at
their glass works in Smethwick |
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1836
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The
first Primitive Methodist Church opened in Green Street, Oldbury
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1837
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Titford
Canal opened to serve the coalmines of the Rowley Hills |
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1840
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1840
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Oldbury-cum-Langley
becomes a separate parish, split from Halesowen parish |
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1841
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Christchurch
consecrated and Oldbury Chapel demolished soon after
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1843
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Independent
Chapel opened in Talbot Street |
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1844
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Oldbury
reverts from Shropshire to Worcestershire |
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~1845
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Development
of Langley 'village' starts
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1846 |
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Rounds Green New Colliery explosion, 19 killed |
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1846
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Oldbury-cum-Langley
parish split to Oldbury parish (including Rood End) and Langley
parish (including Rounds Green) |
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1850
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Albright
& Wilson phosphorus works established (initially J Sturge
Ltd) |
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1851
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Chance's
School opened |
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1852
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Trinity
Church, Langley, consecrated |
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1852
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Oldbury
and Bromford Lane Station opened on the 'Stour Valley' line |
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1852
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Oldbury
Board of Health instituted after a petition by the townspeople.
This is the first 'local authority' in the town. |
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1853
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Mechanics'
Institute established
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1853
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New
Wesleyan Methodist Church opened in Church Street, together
with Wesleyan Day School |
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1854
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Oldbury
Carriage Works established |
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1857
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Crosswells
Brewery founded |
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1857
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Oldbury
Burial Board established and Rood End Cemetery opened |
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1859
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South
Staffordshire Waterworks Co formed, and piped water began to
reach Oldbury a few years later |
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1860
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1863
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Temperance
Hall erected, later becoming the People's Hall, Vestry Hall
& Town Hall |
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1865
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St
Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church and School opened in Oldbury |
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1867
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British
Schools opened in Rounds Green |
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1868
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Edwin
Danks established company making canal boats and boilers |
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1865
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Oldbury
Volunteer Corps formed, associated with Worcestershire Regiment |
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1969
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District
Hospital built in West Bromwich, covering Oldbury area |
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1874
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Quinton
Convalescent Home opened by Chance Brothers Chemical Works for
their employees and families |
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1875
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Oldbury
'Weekly News' started |
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1875
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First
Wesleyan Reform Chapel opened, the 'Ebeneezer'
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1876
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Oldbury
Vicarage built at Rood End |
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1876
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Warley
School Board formed |
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1877
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Hughes-Johnson
Stampings established, first making test machines and presses,
then general drop forgings |
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1877
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Langley
Temperance Hall opened |
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1879 |
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First
library opened in Langley |
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1880
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Oldbury
Gas Works opened by the Local Board of Health, under an Act
of Parliament of 1876 |
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1881
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Halesowen
Police Division headquarters moved to Oldbury |
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1881
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Warley
Board School opened in George Road, Warley |
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1882
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Langley
Institute opened |
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1885
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Steam
trams through Oldbury start on the Birmingham to Dudley route,
and on the Bromford Lane route |
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1885
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Tabernacle
School opened |
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1886
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Langley
Park opened, the first in Oldbury |
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1887
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Church
bells installed in Christchurch to mark Queen Victoria's
Golden Jubilee |
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1889
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Thomas
Clayton Ltd opens wharf in Stone Street as canal carrier |
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1889
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Fire
station built in Low Town |
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~1890 |
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Rapid coalmine closures |
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1890
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St
Michael and All Angels Church consecrated and becomes parish
church for Langley |
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1890
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Striking
clock installed in Christchurch tower |
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1891
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Technical
School evening classes started |
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1892
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St
James, Rounds Green dedicated |
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1891
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Godson
Masonic Lodge consecrated, meeting at the Talbot Hotel |
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1891
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Public
buildings and library opened in Market Place |
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1893
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Horse-drawn
trams replace steam on the Bromford Road route |
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1893
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Ham
Baker Ltd establish the Municipal Engineering Works in Langley
making water and sewerage equipment |
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1894
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Oldbury
becomes an urban district, administered by the Oldbury Urban
District Council - includes Oldbury, Langley & Warley |
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1895
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Oldbury
UDC purchases right to hold markets from the Lord
of Manor |
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1896
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Langley
Bowling Club established |
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1896 |
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Oldbury
UDC opened branch public
library in Langley in Langley Institutue |
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1897
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Bury
Hill Park given by J W Wilson to commemorate Queen Victoria's
Diamond Jubilee |
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1897
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Horse
ambulance given to town by John Homer Chance |
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1897
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Mission
Church of St John the Evangelist opened in Tat Bank Road |
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1899
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Technical School building in Flash Road opened |
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1900
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1900
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Members
of Oldbury Volunteers sail to South Africa to serve in Boer
War |
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1902
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Accles
and Pollock tube works established in Oldbury |
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1904
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Tram
routes through Oldbury are electrified |
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1904
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Oldbury
Secondary School opened in Technical School buiilding in Flash
Road |
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1905
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St
James parish, Rounds Green split from Langley parish |
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1906
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|
First
Council school opened at Rood End (followed by Barclay Road,
Rounds Green, Castle Road and Titford Road) |
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| |
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1906
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|
Isolation
Hospital opened in Holly Lane (joint with Smethwick) |
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1906
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Warley
Woods opened to the public |
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1908
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|
Oldbury
Territorials formed, part of 7th Worcestershire Regiment: Oldbury
Volunteers disband |
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1909
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|
Langley
Library moves to Carnegie building at Langley Green |
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1913
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Oldbury
Parish Rooms opened |
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1914
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|
First
BMMO (Midland Red) bus services including Smethwick-Langley-Oldbury
route |
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1915
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Barnford
Hill Park given by W A Albright to Oldbury UDC |
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1918
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Oldbury
in Stourbridge Parliamentary Constituency |
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1920
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1924?
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Langley
British Legion and Oldbury British Legion started |
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~1925 |
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Last Oldbury coalmines closed |
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1926
|
|
Oldbury
War Memorial unveiled |
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| |
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1926
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|
Oldbury
granted its coat of arms |
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| |
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1926
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|
Oldbury
County High School formed by transfer of Oldbury Secondary
School from Flash Road |
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| |
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1926
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|
Oldbury
and District Citizens' Society formed to provide relief |
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1926
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|
The
Birmingham to Wolverhampton New Road is opened |
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1929
|
|
Bristnall
Hall Schools opened |
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| |
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1930
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|
Junior
Commercial School opened - later the Secondary Technical School |
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1933
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|
1000th
Council House by direct labour opened in Wallace Road |
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1934
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|
Bleakhouse
Clinic opened by Oldbury UDC |
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| |
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1935
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|
Roman
Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Hubert, Warley, consecrated |
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| |
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1935
|
|
Oldbury
received its Charter of Incorporation and became 'The Borough
of Oldbury' |
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| |
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1936
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|
First
Sons of Rest building opened in Birchley Park: 1937 Barnford
Park |
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| |
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1936 |
|
Albright
Secondary School opened |
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| |
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1937
|
|
Edgmond
Hall purchased as educational centre in Shropshire |
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| |
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1938
|
|
Moat
Farm Junior and Infants Schools opened |
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| |
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1938
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|
Bleakhouse
Library opened |
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| |
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1938
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|
Langley
Baths opened |
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| |
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1939
|
|
Trams
are replaced by Midland Red buses on the new B87 route. The
last tram ran on 30th September |
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| |
1940
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1942
|
|
Air
Training Corps 309 (Oldbury) Squadron formed |
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| |
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1942
|
|
'Warships
Week' led to adoption of 'HMS Griffin' |
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| |
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1950
|
|
Oldbury
and Halesowen Parliamentary Constituency formed |
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| |
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1954
|
|
Oldbury
College of Further Education opened at Causeway Green |
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| |
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1956
|
|
Perryfields
Secondary School and Junior School opened |
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| |
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1957
|
|
First
visit of Queen Elizabeth II to Oldbury |
|
| |
1960
|
|
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1962
|
|
Freedom
of entry conferred on Worcestershire Regiment |
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| |
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1966
|
|
Oldbury,
Rowley Regis and Smethwick merged into Warley County Borough |
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| |
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1974
|
|
Oldbury
in Warley West contituency |
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| |
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1974
|
|
Warley
County Borough and West Bromwich County Borough merged into
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough |
|
| |
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1974
|
|
Comprehensive
education introduced into Warley/Sandwell - Oldbury Grammar
School becomes Oldbury High School |
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| |
1980
|
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1992
|
|
Rededication
of Christchurch after restructuring |
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