EPW024560 ENGLAND (1928). Courtaulds Ltd Dunstall Hall Rayon Works and Dunstall Park racecourse, Wolverhampton, from the south, 1928

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Title [EPW024560] Courtaulds Ltd Dunstall Hall Rayon Works and Dunstall Park racecourse, Wolverhampton, from the south, 1928
Reference EPW024560
Date September-1928
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Place name WOLVERHAMPTON
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Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 390290, 299813
Longitude / Latitude -2.1433652823939, 52.595669239411
National Grid Reference SO903998

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The site of the present day Aldersley Leisure Village, formerly Aldersley Stadium.

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Aldersley Junction, between the Birmingham Main Line canal and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, in the age of the canal this was a busy, important junction.

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The site of the present day in conctruction 'i54', with high profile companies such as Moog and Jaguar Land Rover setting up here.

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Friday 3rd of August 2012 09:14:19 PM
Just under ten years after this photograph was taken, Wolverhampton was to have its own airport on this site, at Pendeford. Opening in June 1938, the site was visited by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in April 1940, where they watched a display by a Boulton Paul Defiant over the airfield. Later that year, in September 1940, the airport was attacked by a German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju.88, though the bombs missed and exploded in the nearby Barnhurst Sewerage Works. In 1956 a feature film, 'The Man in the Sky', starring Jack Hawkins, was filmed here. The airport closed on 31st December 1970, and today is the site of the Pendeford housing estate and Pendeford Business Park.

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The site of the present day Claregate housing estate, built in the periods before and after the second World War. Streets such as Blackburn, Lynton and Burland Avenue and Crossland Crescent now criss cross these fields.

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The Fieldhouse Pub, later pulled down and replaced by a newer pub, at first also called The Fieldhouse, now called The Claregate.

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Friday 3rd of August 2012 08:39:33 PM
Barnhurst Farm, the site of the modern day Dovecotes estate, Pendeford. The estate itself named after the Dovecote of Barnhurst Farm that still stands to this day.

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