More Redditch Remembered
Alan Foxall
- Price: £16.99
- Publisher: Breedon Books
- ISBN: 9781859835944
- Availability: In Stock
More Redditch Remembered will help the people of 'old' Redditch relive
more good memories and evoke talking points. And for those new to the
town, it will give them a taste of Redditch as it was when life was
lived at a slower pace. Until about 1900, although Redditch was
internationally renowned for needle making and the associated fishing
tackle industry, it was still a small country town. In 1827 William
Thomas Hemming established a flourishing printing business with an
office on Prospect Hill and in September 1859 he launched the town's
first newspaper the Redditch Indicator That was a year which also saw
the arrival of the railway to a station in Clive Road and the setting up
of the Land and Building Society later renamed the Redditch Benefit
Building Society, now the Birmingham Midshires. The Redditch Development
Corporation was constituted on 29 May 1964 and so Redditch New Town has
had its 40th birthday and itself has become part of the town's history.
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Format | Hardback |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 305mm x 220mm |
Illustrations | black & white |