Oldbury, Langley & Warley Through Time

This book tells the story of Oldbury''s rise from overcrowded Victorian town to progressive municiple borough, and its absorption into larger local authorities from 1966. Its success was built on coalmining, metal working and chemicals. Further south, off the coalfield, lay the rural area of ''old'' Warley, whose fields were lost to housing between the wars. Langley, at the boundary of the coalfie...