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Caldmore ( ) is a suburb of
The settlement of Caldmore grew up around an important road junction, the shape of which defined an open space of roughly triangular shape called Caldmore Green and, in the course of the 19th century, this became the principal focus for the development of a social and commercial area. Later, the area surrounding Caldmore Green underwent considerable redevelopment in the 1950s with the removal of Victorian slums and their replacement by new flats.
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Walsall
Walsall
Walsall (, or ; locally ) is a market town and administrative centre in the West Midlands County, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, it is located north-west of Birmingham, east of Wolverhampton and from Lichfield.
Walsall is th ...
in the West Midlands, England. It is a historic village formerly in Staffordshire.
History
The settlement of Caldmore grew up around an important road junction, the shape of which defined an open space of roughly triangular shape called Caldmore Green and, in the course of the 19th century, this became the principal focus for the development of a social and commercial area. Later, the area surrounding Caldmore Green underwent considerable redevelopment in the 1950s with the removal of Victorian slums and their replacement by new flats.
Caldmore House
Caldmore House is the surviving segment of Victorianterraced house
In architecture and city planning, a terrace or terraced house ( UK) or townhouse ( US) is a form of medium-density housing that originated in Europe in the 16th century, whereby a row of attached dwellings share side walls. In the United State ...
s in Caldmore. Located on Carless Street (Oxford Street until 1923), it was part of a row of three houses which were built in 1886. The houses remained until the 1950s and 1960s when the street was bulldozed with only one house remaining. This was saved from demolition and modernised. It is now a museum open to the public with the original Victorian features still remaining in the house.
Noddy Holder
Noddy Holder
Neville John "Noddy" Holder (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician. He was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the English band Slade, one of the UK's most successful acts of the 1970s. Known for his unique and powerful voice, Holder co ...
musician and actor, notably the vocalist for Slade
Slade are an English rock band formed in Wolverhampton in 1966. They rose to prominence during the glam rock era in the early 1970s, achieving 17 consecutive top 20 hits and six number ones on the UK Singles Chart. The ''British Hit Singles ...
was born in Caldmore.
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1889). Other works include the essay collections '' Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'' (1886) an ...
, late Victorian novelist, essayist, humourist and playwright, best known for his classic comic novel
A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction. Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole. Comic novels are often defined by the author's literar ...
Three Men in a Boat, was born at Belsize House on the corner of Bradford Street and Caldmore Road.
Caldmore at present
Caldmore Green is the centre of the Caldmore Shopping area with Caldmore Housing HQ base. The area is home to restaurants and fashion and jewellery outlets. In addition, Caldmore Housing annually host The Caldmore Carnival which is based on different themes with the most recent being space. Many late 19th and early 20th century terraced houses are still in existence around Caldmore. But clearance of the tower blocks began in 2004 and most of the high-rise flats have since been demolished. When one of the first tower blocks was demolished, the body of a man was discovered in one flat; he had not been seen for six years and was believed to have died of natural causes shortly after his last reported sighting, but the council had not served an eviction order because the flats had already been earmarked for demolition. The man's brother did arrive at the flat on at least once occasion, only to be told by a neighbour that his brother had either died or moved away. Between 1950 and 1970, hundreds of immigrant families from the Commonwealth settled in Caldmore, and today it has a strongAsia
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n community.
In 2016, residents complained of an increase in prostitution in the area, blaming police cutbacks.
National Express West Midlands
National Express West Midlands (NXWM) is a bus operator in the West Midlands that operates services in Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton, and Solihull, as well as limited routes outside of the general area of Birmingham, s ...
and operate the frequent bus routes 4/4H/4M through the village every few minutes Monday to Saturday daytime.{{Cite web , url=http://diamondbuses.com/services/WestMidlands_5/4-WalsalltoWestBromwich_248.html , title=West Midlands - 4: Walsall to West Bromwich , access-date=2017-06-20 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715152918/http://www.diamondbuses.com/services/WestMidlands_5/4-WalsalltoWestBromwich_248.html , archive-date=2017-07-15 , url-status=dead, website=www.diamondbuses.com
References
External links
Caldmore Area Housing Association
Walsall