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Dudley Road, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3BY

The view in Blakenhall Wolverhampton.

The route, which used to be covered by trolley bus route 58, (Image]), has dropped off two passengers by the Ek Niwas Temple on Dudley Road. Drayton Street is off to the left.

Looking north towards the city centre from the junction with Drayton Street.

Council houses dating from early 1920s on the Green Lane Estate.

This temple, the Ek Niwas Universal Divine Temple, was opened in 1995. It seems to involve Sikh and Hindu faiths. Its bright appearance is sometimes compromised by the large dogs which "welcome" interested passers by.

This temple, the Ek Niwas Universal Divine Temple, was opened in 1995. It seems to involve Sikh and Hindu faiths. At the time of this photograph, its bright appearance was sometimes compromised by the large dogs which "welcomed" interested passers-by.

The school was opened in 1875, and closed in 1986. I remember in the early 1980s it was being used as an excellent language centre for teaching English and reading/writing to children of non-English speaking families, and other children with reading difficulties. I believe it was closed because it was costing too much to do a valuable and well structured job properly. The building is now "listed" and used as a community centre. Excellent web-page: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/DudleyRdSchool.htm

The view down the A459 Dudley Road as it enters the Blakenhall Area from Wolverhampton City Centre.

The school was opened in 1875, and closed in 1986. I remember in the early 1980s it was being used as an excellent language centre for teaching English and reading/writing to children of non-English speaking families, and other children with reading difficulties. I believe it was closed because it was costing too much to do a valuable and well structured job properly. The building is now "listed" and used as a community centre. Excellent web-page: http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/DudleyRdSchool.htm

Ernest Cox was responsible for finding many of the ships from the German High Seas Fleet that were scuttled in Scapa Flow on 17th June 1919. Out of the 74 ships that were interned at Scapa Flow, 51 were sunk and 43 of them subsequently raised. Only 8 still remain. The total weight of the ships that were sunk was over 400,000 tons. The largest salvage operation in history was soon underway and the Scapa Flow Salvage and Shipbreaking Company was formed in 1923, to raise some of the torpedo boats. Over the next 8 years he undertook a massive operation to raise the ships. It was to become one of the greatest feats of marine salvage ever accomplished. He purchased and modified an old German floating dry dock and lifted 26 torpedo boats, and broke them up for scrap in between August 1924 and April 1926. ...and there's more where that came from!! The text by Ian Jukes is copied from this superb account of his life http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/plaques/DudleyRd2.htm .