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Fallings Park, Guy Motors Industrial Park
Off Park Lane, presumably on the site of the former bus and lorry makers.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Jun 2013
0.05 miles
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Guy Motors, Park Village
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.
Image: © John M
Taken: 30 Sep 2007
0.05 miles
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Fallings Park Industrial Estate
The entrance to one of Wolverhampton's many industrial parks
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 24 Nov 2010
0.10 miles
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Bus Garage, Park Lane
The bus depot was directly across the road from Guy Motors, the main supplier of buses and trolleybuses to the Corporation fleet. The close connection lasted for many years. It remains a large bus garage used by Travel WM successor to Wolverhampton Corporation Transport Department. The other bus garage in Cleveland Street closed some years ago.
Image: © John M
Taken: 30 Sep 2007
0.11 miles
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Fallings Park, bus garage
On Park Lane; formerly operated by Wolverhampton Corporation, later West Midlands PTE, now National Express.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Jun 2013
0.13 miles
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OS benchmark, Park Village former school
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.
Image: © Richard Law
Taken: 5 Feb 2015
0.16 miles
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Park Village, youth centre
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
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 30 Jun 2013
0.16 miles
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Warehousing on 'Meadows' Site
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.
Image: © John M
Taken: 22 Sep 2007
0.17 miles
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Paget Arms, Park Lane, Bushbury
This pub was built in 1935 between the Fallings Park housing estate and a trading estate.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 18 Jul 2006
0.18 miles
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Green space Warren Avenue in winter
Private housing on the fringe of the Low Hill Estate
Image: © John M
Taken: 13 Jan 2013
0.20 miles