Dixon's building in Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
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Dixon's building in Cleveland Road, Wolverhampton
Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 25 Mar 2017
The whole area including Cleveland Road has been blighted for almost twenty years since the closure of the Royal Hospital nearby in 1997, and the subsequent fiasco involving Tesco not developing the site as planned. Nearby properties are derelict or already demolished. The imposing red-brick Dixon's building is an exception. This website http://web.archive.org/web/20071118015049/http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/interesting/dixons/dixons01.htm states: This building, owned by S J Dixon & Son Limited, was erected in 1885 on Cleveland Road by a local firm of builders, Bradney & Co, as an extension to Forder & Co's extension to their 1880/2 factory. Bradney's workmen are said to have used the newly available electric light to extend their working day in order to complete the work. The building was reported to have been, at the time of its completion, the tallest building in Wolverhampton; but whether or not that included church spires or purely secular buildings was not stated. Image]
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Image Location
Latitude
52.581461
Longitude
-2.118759