New PDF release: The Story of Dudley

By Edward Chitham

ISBN-10: 0750955694

ISBN-13: 9780750955690

This booklet offers a rounded account of the heritage of Dudley, beginning earlier than the Norman Conquest. It strains the improvement of within the city, and exhibits how the inability of utilities, together with water, hampered the nineteenth-century city and compelled a piece of the inhabitants into determined poverty. significant old treasures stay from this period, in spite of the fact that, giving the chance for the expansion of tourism within the present.

The tale of Dudley, compiled via a professional within the area’s heritage, weaves those occasions jointly into an obtainable, attention-grabbing and in-depth background of the city that's bound to satisfaction citizens and viewers alike.

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