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.