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Old pit bonks before the "Rec" was laid out. The 58-acre site was bought by West Bromwich Corporation in 1922, levelled by unemployed labour and opened as playing fields in 1926.
Source: Greenslade: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=36157#n72
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