EPW017948 ENGLAND (1927). Coalway Road and the Oxbarn Avenue housing estate under construction, Merry Hill, 1927
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| Title | [EPW017948] Coalway Road and the Oxbarn Avenue housing estate under construction, Merry Hill, 1927 |
| Reference | EPW017948 |
| Date | 11-May-1927 |
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| Place name | MERRY HILL |
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| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 389174, 296792 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -2.1597438579307, 52.568486890675 |
| National Grid Reference | SO892968 |
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 This is where the end of Windsor Avenue is nowadays. |
J_P |
Tuesday 19th of January 2021 02:23:54 PM |
| Trysull Road |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 08:53:47 PM |
| Coalway Road |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 08:53:26 PM |
| Oxbarn Avenue |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 08:52:51 PM |
| Rowan Crescent |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 08:52:18 PM |
| Victoria Road |
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Friday 9th of November 2012 08:51:51 PM |
| Oxbarn Farm Estate, now the site of Warstones Primary School was owned by the Sparrow family, weathly Coalmasters, who married into the Mander family. According to a 1925 Land Registry document, it was owned by John Sparrow's son, Isaac at the time of this photo. |
Sligs |
Saturday 14th of July 2012 12:25:37 AM |
| This farmland belonged to John William Sparrow and is now the Windsor Avenue playing fields. |
Sligs |
Saturday 14th of July 2012 12:04:44 AM |
User Comment Contributions
This image shows how farming land was built over as Wolverhampton expanded in the 1920s and 1930s. The Warstones estate was completed in the 1940s. New estates were built to house people after older houses in town and city centres were demolished under slum clearance programmes. |
MM |
Friday 5th of April 2013 09:54:38 AM |