Coal Pool Explained

Country:England
Official Name:Coal Pool
Static Image Name:Coal Pool Lane - geograph.org.uk - 3686103.jpg
Static Image Caption:Coal Pool Lane, Coal Pool, Walsall
Coordinates:52.6031°N -1.9742°W
Map Type:West Midlands
Metropolitan Borough:Walsall
Metropolitan County:West Midlands
Region:West Midlands
Constituency Westminster:Walsall and Bloxwich
Post Town:WALSALL
Postcode District:WS3
Postcode Area:WS
Dial Code:01922
Os Grid Reference:SK018005
Type:Suburb

Coal Pool is a housing estate in Walsall, West Midlands, England. Most of the homes in area were built by the local council during the 1930s, with a smaller development taking place in the late 1940s which marked the resumption of council house building in the borough after World War II.[1]

During World War II, an air raid on a house in Beddows Road on 14 November 1940 resulted in a 19-year-old Blakenall Heath man being seriously injured; he died in Walsall Manor Hospital shortly afterwards. This was the only civilian fatality during the Second World War.[2]

Community facilities and housing have been improved and relatively little demolition has taken place around CoalPool, with the overwhelming majority of the properties being refurbished.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Walsall - The growth of the town | A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17 (pp. 146-165) . British-history.ac.uk . 2011-10-07.
  2. http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3148462 Norman Bayley