Walsall
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 35 ′ N , 1 ° 59 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 174.994 | ||
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| Post town | WALSALL | ||
| ZIP code section | WS1, WS2, WS3 | ||
| prefix | 01922 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | West Midlands | ||
| Metropolitan county | West Midlands | ||
| Metropolitan Borough | Walsall | ||
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Walsall North Walsall South |
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| Website: http://cms.walsall.gov.uk/ | |||
Walsall [ wɔːlsɔːl ] is a town of about 170,000 inhabitants in the West Midlands in England . It is the eponymous core town and administrative seat of the larger Metropolitan Borough of Walsall .
history
Walsall was first mentioned in 1002; In 1159 the place was granted city rights. In 1554 the Queen Mary's Grammar School was opened.
In the 17th century Walsall became a center of leather goods manufacturing. The connection to the railway network in 1847 promoted the economic development of the city.
Attractions
The Walsall Museum , the Leather Museum and the New Art Gallery are well worth seeing .
economy
The city is an industrial center (manufacture of leather goods , especially horse saddles and harness, electrical and chemical industry) and the cultural center of the region with museums , cinemas and galleries . Nearby are coal and limestone mined.
traffic
Walsall is the Motorways M5 and M6 connected to the British road network. A few kilometers north of the city, the M6 Toll is also Great Britain's first toll motorway.
Walsall can be reached by rail via rail lines from Birmingham , Stafford and Wolverhampton (- Shrewsbury ). All three routes are operated by the Central Trains company.
Town twinning
The city of Mulhouse in the French region of Alsace has been the twin town of Walsall since 1962 .
sons and daughters of the town
- John Edward Gray (1800–1875), zoologist
- Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927), writer
- Harry Hinsley (1918–1998), historian and cryptanalyst
- Frank Windsor (born 1927), actor
- Michael Fitzgerald (* 1937), diplomat and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church
- Peter Radford (born 1939), track and field athlete
- Peter McEnery (born 1940), actor
- Jenny Tonge (* 1941), baroness since 2005, politician ( Liberal Democrats )
- Dave Walker (* 1945), musician
- Neville John 'Noddy' Holder (born 1946), singer of the Slade group , honorary citizen of Walsall, actor, entertainer
- Andrew Parrott (* 1947), choir director and musicologist
- Rob Halford (born 1951), singer with Judas Priest
- Martin Degville (* 1961), singer and songwriter
- Martin Fowler (* 1963), computer scientist and software developer
- Rachel Unitt (* 1982), soccer player
- Eleanor Simmonds (* 1994), Paralympic swimmer
- Jorja Smith (* 1997), singer
See also
- Swallow Doretti (car model produced in Walsall around 1955)
Web links
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- ↑ Walsall Council website ( Memento of the original from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
