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Resolute Drive, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6GA

The housing development progresses slowly on the former Goodyear's site.

Development is progressing slowly on the site of the former Goodyear tyre factory site.

The St Modwen Developments regeneration on the 88 acre former Goodyear tyre factory site has continued for many years, with housing and the relandscaped Wingfoot Park (now named Goodyear Neighbourhood Park and reopened in 2018), behind the camera. A fascinating nature conservation area there has been built with three linked pools functioning as an attenuation pond, by Ranger Drive. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.

There are plans to build housing, shops and re-locate a primary school on to the site which was cleared in 2008. Goodyear opened a factory for their European operations on the site in 1927. The plant was overtaken by new factories opened in Eastern Europe and Far East.

Looking south from the junction with Ranger Drive. The St Modwen Developments regeneration on the 88 acre former Goodyear tyre factory site has continued for many years, with housing and the relandscaped Wingfoot Park (now named Goodyear Neighbourhood Park and reopened in 2018), behind the camera. A fascinating nature conservation area there has been built with three linked pools functioning as an attenuation pond by Ranger Drive. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.

Looking north towards Ranger Drive and Ohio Gardens on a dull November morning. The attenuation pond is divided into three linked pools, this image showing part of the third, the main storage (foreground) and the second (a reed pool for cleaning the water). Off to the right is a settlement pond (to filter out sediment). Image] The St Modwen Developments regeneration on the 88 acre former Goodyear tyre factory site has continued for many years, with housing and the relandscaped Wingfoot Park (now named Goodyear Neighbourhood Park and reopened in 2018), off to the left. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.

The St Modwen Developments regeneration on the 88 acre former Goodyear tyre factory site has continued for many years, with housing and the relandscaped Wingfoot Park (now named Goodyear Neighbourhood Park and reopened in 2018). The snow is a remnant of the 6-8cm fall dumped by Storm Arwen three days earlier. Looking south-west towards Ranger Drive and Akron Drive.

The name for the housing development recalls the site's former use as a tyre factory and European HQ for Goodyear Tyres. Goodyear set up a plant on the site adjacent to the Stafford Road in the mid 1920s.

Looking south-east towards Ranger Drive and Akron Drive on a dull November morning. The attenuation pond (balancing pond) is divided into three stepped and linked pools, this image showing part of the third, the main storage (foreground) and the second (a reed pool for cleaning the water). Off to the right, and just visible is a settlement pond (to filter out sediment). Image] The St Modwen Developments regeneration on the 88 acre former Goodyear tyre factory site has continued for many years, with housing and the relandscaped Wingfoot Park (now named Goodyear Neighbourhood Park and reopened in 2018), off to the left. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company is an American multinational tyre manufacturing company founded in 1898 by Frank Seiberling and based in Akron, Ohio.