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Council Housing - Chestnut Grove
Immediately after the Second World War prefabricated concrete bungalows were offered to local authorities in an attempt to meet a housing shortage. This small estate was built in Wednesfield. These Tarran bungalows had an expected life of ten years.
Image: © John M
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.08 miles
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Wood End Road
Northward view. At the height of a general election campaign, not a political poster in sight.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 1 May 2010
0.09 miles
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Council Housing - Chestnut Grove
Immediately after the Second World War prefabricated concrete bungalows were offered to local authorities in an attempt to meet a housing shortage. This small estate was built in Wednesfield.The prpoerties had a design life of ten years.
Image: © John M
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.10 miles
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Hazel Grove, Wood End
One of three footpaths lined with prefabricated bungalows between Bellamy Lane (immediately behind the photographer) and Orchard Road.
Image: © Richard Vince
Taken: 28 Dec 2016
0.10 miles
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Polling Station - Wolverhampton North East
The hall at Wood End Primary School plays host to a polling station for the 2010 General Election. The school is in an area of predominantly private housing pre and post war. The demographic is a mix of working and middle class.
Image: © John M
Taken: 6 May 2010
0.13 miles
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Wood End Primary School
Tessa Sanderson, Olympic Javelin Gold medallist, and I attended the school in the 1960s. I believe our memories of the school were somewhat different.
Image: © John M
Taken: 5 Sep 2009
0.15 miles
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Demolition of Wood End Primary School
The two-storey 1960 block was demolished at the start of the year. Now is the turn of the original 1938 school. A new £2.5M school has been constructed on the playing field. My brother and I were pupils at the school in the 1960s.
Image: © John M
Taken: 13 Dec 2015
0.15 miles
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Demolition of Wood End Primary School
The two-storey 1960 block was demolished at the start of the year. Now is the turn of the original 1938 school. A new £2.5M school has been constructed on the playing field. My brother and I were pupils at the school in the 1960s.
Image: © John M
Taken: 13 Dec 2015
0.15 miles
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Boys Entrance - Wood End Primary School
The two-storey 1960 block was demolished at the start of the year. Now is the turn of the original 1938 school. A new £2.5M school has been constructed on the playing field. My brother and I were pupils at the school in the 1960s.
The front entrances were not used by pupils in the 1960s with access made from the courtyard to the rear. There was a classroom on the left with headmaster Mr Shannon and school secretary's offices on the right.
Image: © John M
Taken: 13 Dec 2015
0.15 miles
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Ridge Lane - Wood End
The Monarch's Way passes along a residential street on the fringe of the West Midlands conurbation. A brief stroll lets the traveller join the towpath of the Curly Wyrley canal for the journey to Bentley Hall.
Image: © John M
Taken: 6 Dec 2008
0.16 miles