Building Tours

Former
Woolworth's Store

Built in 1935, the building replaced a smaller 1914 store a few doors away which had no room to extend. The building was designed in Art Deco style, which became Woolworth’s

in-house style for the 1930s.

Fountain Arcade,
Dudley

The Fountain Arcade was Dudley’s first shopping arcade and was the brainchild of local solicitor and Deputy Mayor, Alderman T W Tanfield JP. Local architect Mr E George Coslett was enlisted to design the arcade and two local builders, A.J. Crump & Sons Ltd and Mark Round & Sons Ltd, were appointed for the construction work.

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The OldMeeting House

This 1717 building is the oldest existing building of worship in Dudley. It was Grade II listed in 1949, meaning it is a building of special interest and warranting every effort to preserve it. It is now a Unitarian chapel.

Who's Who in St.Michael's Church

Discover over 200 years of history amongst the gravestones and monuments in the churchyard of St Michael’s Church, Brierley Hill.

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Baylies’s Hall
Charity School

Baylies’s Charity School was established by Robert, Samuel and Anne Baylies in 1732.  This was a period when many such schools were founded, for ‘teaching, instructing and clothing 50 boys’.

68 High Street Brierley Hill

No.68 High Street was constructed as a bank between c1875 and 1880 and appears to have been a multi-occupancy building given it has two separate entrances. Over the years it has been occupied by three different bank branches, used as a solicitor’s office and occupied by two different physicians/surgeons. In 2023 it was converted into residential use.