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    The Stafford Street drill hall is a former military installation in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. The building was designed as the headquarters of the...
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    known locally as "The Man on the Horse". The Stafford Street drill hall was completed in 1890. Wolverhampton had a prolific bicycle industry from 1868 to...
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    drill hall was completed in 1913, just in time for the First World War. The M6 motorway was opened to the west of Stafford in 1962. In 2013 Stafford celebrated...
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    to Wolverhampton, the drill hall was decommissioned and converted for use by the maintenance department of Staffordshire County Council. "Stafford". The...
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  • Burton-on-Trent, with a detachment at High Street, Uttoxeter D Sqn at Stafford Street Drill Hall, Wolverhampton (shared with 3rd North Midland Brigade, Royal...
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    Courier and South Staffordshire Gazette, was published. The Whittimere Street drill hall was completed in 1866. The Victorian Arcade in the town centre, originally...
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    and 13 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Wolverhampton. It is near the M54 motorway and A5 road aka Watling Street. At the 2001 census, it had a population...
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    of the Market Place and High Street, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Horninglow Street drill hall dates back to the early 19th...
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    Chase Gateway, containing an Aldi and a new bingo hall, along with several other shops. A new drill hall for the local Army Cadet Force detachment was also...
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  • Hill asylum opens. Edgbaston Quaker Meeting House is opened. Thorp Street drill hall is completed. 1882 28 August: The fire station at Upper Priory opens...
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  • Conservative Susan Hall on 33%. 2024 West Midlands mayoral election: Labour's Richard Parker narrowly defeats the Conservative incumbent Andy Street to become...
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  • Holker Street near the town centre, 0.7 miles from Barrow-in-Furness railway station. Barrow were founded on 16 July 1901 at the old Drill Hall (later...
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    (Royal Regiment of Wales) Company, in Pontypridd Platoon, at Bethesda Street drill hall, Merthyr Tydfil – new D (Royal Welch Fusiliers) Company, in Colwyn...
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    to the north. 1867: Lower Dock Street drill hall completed. 1871: W. H. Davies, renowned poet born at Portland Street, Pillgwenlly. 1875: Alexandra Dock...
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  • Shawn Seesahai, a 19-year-old from Anguilla, is stabbed to death in Wolverhampton. Two boys, aged 12 at the time, are convicted the following year as...
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    is to serve Curzon Street, providing access to onward services from Birmingham Snow Hill, Birmingham New Street and Wolverhampton.[citation needed] There...
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    prefabricated homes. 14 "Wolverhampton to Cheltenham" 20 July 2023 (2023-07-20) Alighting at Wolverhampton, Portillo meets Wolverhampton born cultural historian...
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    ISBN 978-0-9529152-8-7, pages 18–33, 2011, all by Kent, Jeff. Matthews, Tony (2008). Wolverhampton Wanderers: The Complete Record. Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 978-1-85983-632-3...
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    Ellowes Hall, Kinver, Perton, Scotts Green, West Park, Wolverhampton, and Wombourne C Company - Burton, Cannock, Hednesford, Lichfield, Rugeley, Stafford (two...
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    C.) Gordon Brice (1924–2003), cricketer and footballer (Luton Town, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Reading, Fulham) Pemi Aderoju (born 2005), footballer for...
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  • Street, Tunstall E Company at the Drill Hall, Hill Street, Stoke F Company (former L) at The Armoury, Town Hall, High Street, Stone G Company (former G & H)...
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  • members of the notorious Subway Army, a football firm associated with Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.) are convicted of taking part in a fight near the club's...
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    lived in no 5 Red Cross Cottages in this street of social housing, two doors from the Red Cross Drill Hall. A letter from Octavia Hill in Jan 1891 expressed...
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    "Mr. Lawson, M.P., Resigns", The Times, 21 December 1949, p. 4. "Sir Stafford Cripps Resigns", The Times, 20 October 1950, p. 4. "M.P. not to seek re-election"...
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  • Regiment of Wales) (armoured infantry) 3rd Battalion, Mercian Regiment (Staffords) (armoured infantry) A fifth battalion, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders...
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  • Auxiliary Forces Association. Additional Knight Commander Sir Algar Henry Stafford Howard, KCVO CB MC TD JP DL, lately Garter Principal King of Arms. Military...
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  • Townsend Street Central Kitchen, LCC School Meals Service (Finsbury Park, N. 4.) Frank Mansell, Coppersmith, Guy Motors Ltd., Wolverhampton. Prudence...
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    Ltd., Dudley, Worcestershire William John Dew, Warden, Territorial Army Drill Hall, Bristol Wilfred Frank Digby, Chief Paper Keeper, Tithe Redemption Commission...
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  • the Engineering and Allied Employers' Association, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stafford District. John Louis Beddington, Director, Films Division, Ministry...
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  • MC, chairman, Engineering Employers' Association (Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Stafford District). Captain Colin Reith Coote, DSO, Managing Editor, The...
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