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Quarry Bank -
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Area Information:
Originally the area was a remote part of the parish of Kingswinford,
included in Pensnett Chase. The earliest settlements in Quarry Bank
were smallholdings, where an industrial worker such as a nailer lived.
Early industrial development took place the early 17th century around
the Cradley Forge.
Quarry Bank acquired its own parish status in September 1844. It had an
urban sanitory authority and so became an urban district of
Staffordshire from 1894. However in 1934, it amalgamated with the
Brierley Hill urban district. This became part of the county borough of
Dudley in 1966 and then the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in West
Midlands since 1974.
Quarry Bank has become greatly affected by the adjacent Merry Hill
Shopping Centre which has bought high volumes of traffic along the High
Street. This has meant demolition of a number of homes, the closure of
the top end of the former High Street (now Sun Street) and construction
of a new replacement section of High Street to try and cope with
traffic.
An unusual feature of Quarry Bank is its long steep High Street, hence
"Bank", which slopes from the bottom end where it meets the
neighbouring town of Cradley to the top at the junction with Thorns
Road. Clinging to the hillside and varying from very steep to almost
flat, it has changed little, except for modernisation of shop fronts.
Major retail chains have bypassed the town, leaving just small
independent traders and public houses.
Aldridge · Amblecote · Bilston ·
Birmingham · Blackheath · Bloxwich ·
Brierley Hill · Brownhills · Coseley ·
Coventry · Darlaston · Dudley ·
Halesowen · Hampton-in-Arden · Oldbury
· Rowley Regis · Sedgley · Smethwick
· Solihull · Stourbridge · Sutton
Coldfield · Tipton · Walsall ·
Wednesbury · Wednesfield · West Bromwich
· Willenhall · Wolverhampton
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