. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . Water, Gas and Electric Light ; Technical Education 8 The Birmingham Corporation Industrial Research Laboratories .... 9 The Tube Industry and Representative Firms 11-14 The Axle and Spring Industry and Representative Firms 14-16 The Engineering and Kindred Trades and Representative Firms . .. 16-19 An important Firm of Chemical Manufacturers 20 The Modern Borough 20 Residential Wednesbury. Facts and Figures ; Public Building^: ; Places of In-door Amuse-ment 22-24 Schools ; Clubs and Institutions ; Public Markets and Open Spaces 24-26 Spo
. Wednesbury as a manufacturing and commercial centre . Water, Gas and Electric Light ; Technical Education 8 The Birmingham Corporation Industrial Research Laboratories .... 9 The Tube Industry and Representative Firms 11-14 The Axle and Spring Industry and Representative Firms 14-16 The Engineering and Kindred Trades and Representative Firms . .. 16-19 An important Firm of Chemical Manufacturers 20 The Modern Borough 20 Residential Wednesbury. Facts and Figures ; Public Building^: ; Places of In-door Amuse-ment 22-24 Schools ; Clubs and Institutions ; Public Markets and Open Spaces 24-26 Sports and Pastimes ; Churches and Chapels 26-30 Useful Memorials ; Banks 30 Historical Notes 32-33 Classified Trade -Index 53-56 Map of the Wednesbury District 21 Railway Map showing Wednesburys advantageous communications 28 29 Also Seven Illustration;;. Official Handbook OF THE WEDNESBURY TOWN COUNCIL. ED. J. BURROW & CO. AND CHELTENHAM. iiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiipilliiiJMIl lliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirH ^/ bi is. Wcdncsburys CommercialAdvantages at a Glance. Central Position. Wednesbury is the very heart and centre of the Sonth StaffordshireBlack Country, being midway between Birmingham and Wolverhamptonin the one direction and half-way between Walsall and Dudley in theother. It is an ancient market town, and, together with the adjoiningparishes of Tipton and Darlaston, constitutes a Parliamentary Parish of Wednesbury is in the Poor Law Union of West Bromwich,which town, till made an independent constituency in 1885, was afourth parish included within the Parliamentary Borough of Wednes-bury. Communications. The town is well served by a frequent service of trains on theGreat Western Railway, the station on this Hne being about jh milesnorth of Birmingham. There is a station on the L. & Railwayby which the town is reached from Walsall and the North on oneside, or from Dudley Port, Worcester and the West on the Midland R
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