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The site of the present day Aldersley Leisure Village, formerly Aldersley Stadium.
Friday 3rd August
8:19pm
Aldersley Junction, between the Birmingham Main Line canal and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, in the age of the canal this was a busy, important junction.
Friday 3rd August
8:18pm
The site of the present day in conctruction 'i54', with high profile companies such as Moog and Jaguar Land Rover setting up here.
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8:14pm
Just under ten years after this photograph was taken, Wolverhampton was to have its own airport on this site, at Pendeford. Opening in June 1938, the site was visited by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in April 1940, where they watched a display by a Boulton Paul Defiant over the airfield.
Later that year, in September 1940, the airport was attacked by a German Luftwaffe Junkers Ju.88, though the bombs missed and exploded in the nearby Barnhurst Sewerage Works.
In 1956 a feature film, 'The Man in the Sky', starring Jack Hawkins, was filmed here.
The airport closed on 31st December 1970, and today is the site of the Pendeford housing estate and Pendeford Business Park.
Friday 3rd August
8:11pm
The site of the present day Claregate housing estate, built in the periods before and after the second World War. Streets such as Blackburn, Lynton and Burland Avenue and Crossland Crescent now criss cross these fields.
Friday 3rd August
7:44pm
The Fieldhouse Pub, later pulled down and replaced by a newer pub, at first also called The Fieldhouse, now called The Claregate.
Friday 3rd August
7:39pm
Barnhurst Farm, the site of the modern day Dovecotes estate, Pendeford. The estate itself named after the Dovecote of Barnhurst Farm that still stands to this day.
Friday 3rd August
7:36pm