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Fallings Park Industrial Estate, Park Lane, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9QA

The entrance to one of Wolverhampton's many industrial parks

An OS cutmark on the front wall of the former school, now the Park Village Youth, Media & Activity Centre (although I have to say, it looked pretty firmly closed the day I passed). Mark originally levelled at 128.571m above Ordnance Datuim Newlyn.

Off Park Lane, presumably on the site of the former bus and lorry makers.

Henry Meadows Ltd was founded in 1920 to produce three speed gearboxes for cars. They quickly expanded into petrol and later diesel engines for military and commercial vehicles, boats and trains. In the 1950s the site covered an area of 14 acres with a workforce of 1200. The site closed in 1960 and had lain derelict for many years before the factory units were refurbished as warehousing. A clothing manufacturer now occupies part of the original buildings.

Park Village Youth, Media & Activity Centre, at the corner of Cannock Road and Park Lane: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Park-Village-Youth-and-Media-Centre/221447827963020?sk=page_map

Founded by Sidney Guy in 1913 the company produced military vehicles during the First World War. Between the wars Guy Motors built commercial vehicles, coaches and trolleybuses. They were unsuccessful with car production. During the Second World War they were the only company with spare capacity available to build buses. They ran into difficulties in the 1950s as trolleybuses went out of fashion and their other bus designs became dated. The firm went into receivership in 1961, eventually being taken over by Jaguar before coming under BMC. Production or assembly continued on the site until the 1970s. Most of the original buildings have been demolished. Part of the site is now used as an industrial estate.

This junction on the Cannock Road in Wolverhampton dates back to the building of the turnpikes. The current Cannock Road to the left shortened the route by cutting off two sides of a triangle.

Small infill estate of houses beside the Cannock Road in Park Village probably dating from the mid 1970s.

Mushroom finial - 2 arms; Staffs CC mushroom by the A460, in parish of Wolverhampton (Wolverhampton District), Cannock Road, Fallings Park, at junction with Victoria Road, on pavement against wall. Wolverhampton and Walsall HER. HER Number: 13718 https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MBL5623&resourceID=1025 Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: ST_SJ9200

The old turnpike road on the left was built cutting off a corner which is now preserved in the 20th century housing development. The road sign with a similar one at the other end of 'The Triangle' dates from the Staffordshire County Council period. The sign from pre 1902 is locally listed and was supplied by W H Smith of Whitchurch.