Part of the new "Forging Ahead" project at the Black Country Living Museum is the 1940s - 60s street which is due for completion in 2024. October 30, 2023
The car is a Morris 8 first registered in January 1939.
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The Elephant and Castle Public House.
The Elephant and Castle, once stood on a Wolverhampton street corner.
Originally constructed in 1905, the Elephant & Castle was once a grand Edwardian pub,and was seen as a major landmark for those coming into Wolverhampton.
In 1920 it became part of the Banks's public house estate, one of the larges breweries in the Midlands.
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Race Course Colliery is a replica colliery constructed around an existing mine shaft on the Black Country Museum site.
Further information on Race Course Colliery can be found on the Wikipedia Page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Racecourse_Colliery
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The Black Country Living Museum Pawnbroker's Shop is a recreation of a pawnbroker's located in one of a pair of cottages built in the 1840s, from School Lane in Himley.
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The pair of cottages from School Lane in Himley originally operated as a corner shop. The setting of the display was designed to represent a small scale business.
The shop takes its name from a well known Black Country pawnbroker, Joseph Wiltshire, who owned shops in Great Bridge, Wolverhampton and Carter's Green in West Bromwich.
The exhibition combines pawnbroking with retail, as did many pawnbroking businesses in the 19th century.
In the museum's reconstruction the unredeemed goods and other stock are sold in the front room, while pawning of goods was done in the 'pledge room' at the back.
The shop window of the Pawnbroker's gives an example of the types of goods that customers would 'pledge'. The display includes shoes, clothes, furs, musical instruments, children's toys and a set of false teeth.
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Chemists and Bottle and Glass Inn
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The ‘Bottle and Glass’ public house was originally located on Brierley Hill Road, Brockmoor. It backed on to the Stourbridge Canal at the top of the ‘Sixteen Locks’ near the settlement of Buckpool.
The exact date of construction is not known but it is likely that it was built shortly after the Canal was cut between 1776 and 1779. A map of 1822 shows what appears to be this building but under the name of ‘The Bush’. By the l840’s it was known as the ‘Bottle and Glass’, the name it kept until it closed in 1979.
The pub was very much part of the community but on occasion got into trouble with the law - for example in 1857 “Henry Widgeon of the Bottle and Glass Inn, Buckpool, pleaded guilty to having his house open for the sale of liquor during the hours of divine service on February 22nd; for which offence he was fined 5/- and costs”.
He was not the only landlord to fall foul of the law for in 1871 William Mullet, boatman and publican, ‘Landlord of the Bottle and Glass Inn was charged with permitting drunkenness in his house.
For much of its history, the pub was popular with miners, boatmen and brickmakers working nearby on the canals, or in Brockmoor’s numerous mines and brickyards. Men would drink in the front room while ladies generally went in the back room - or ‘snug’ as it was called - where they would not have to listen to bad language.
Ladies tended not to go into pubs on their own because people would think they were disreputable. In 1899 the pub ceased to be a ‘free house’ and passed to the Wordsley Brewery Company and later to Thomas Plant’s Brewery at Netherton.
At the museum, the Bottle and Glass is again functioning as a public house serving traditional beers from several local breweries.
Emile Doo's Chemist Shop was originally locted at 358 Halesowen Road, Netherton, before being rebuilt on the museum site.
Before the National Health Service was formed, local chemist shops like Doo's played an important part in the health of the local community. They offered services such as free medical advice, basic First Aid and weekly weighing of babies.
Doo's was originally built in 1886 as a tailor's shop. James Emile Doo traded from 1882 in a building across the road from 358, the business being taken over by his newly qualified son Harold Emile Doo, in about 1918.
In 1929 Harold moved trading to their new premises at 358. The move was so carefully planned that dispensing was carried out until 10:00 p.m. on Saturday night in the old premises, and then started trading in the new premises the next morning at 9:00 a.m. Harold traded as a chemist until ill health forced his retirement in May 1968.
The shop lay untouched from 1968 to 1973, when the fittings and stock were donated to The Black Country Living Museum. The shop now located in The Black Country Living Museum is built using bricks reclaimed from two houses which were demolished in Pearson Street, Old Hill.
The original shop front was also rescued and forms part of the exhibit today. The shop exhibition is much tidier than the shop would have been in real life. It would have been cluttered with hampers full of deliveries often leaving little room for customers.
With guidance from Emile Doo's daughter Betty, the shop has been laid out as it was shortly after the move across the road in 1929.
(Information: BCLM)
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