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O F T H E P A S T, P O S O U D I T I V P R E F O : R T Y H E E L F D U U T D U Historic Dudley R E The Polar Bear Pit, one Dudley Castle’s medieval lords could overlook vast estates of many important listed whose natural and human resources helped shape today’s structures designed for Dudley Zoo in the 1930s Black Country. Using the mineral wealth bequeathed by by the famous Architect Dudley’s geological past, black country folk helped power the Berthold Lubetkin. industrial revolution. By 1868, the Black Country could be described as “black by day and red by night” unmatched for “vast and varied production” (a quote by Elihu Burritt, the American philanthropist). The great and growing population of the area frequently found its entertainment on Castle Hill, at castle fetes or even during artificially lit extravaganzas The Wrens Nest National in the limestone caverns underfoot - which included a famous lecture on Dudley’s Geological Reserve - home geology attended by 15,000 people. This tradition was carried on in the opening of of the famous “Dudley Dudley Zoo in 1937 and, latterly, the Black Country Living Museum. Bug” fossil. Today the whole of the Black Country’s history, from geological times to the recent past, can be explored within a stone’s throw of Dudley Town Centre. The Black Country Living Museum - discover a fascinating world when you visit this urban heritage park. A modern mosaic, illustrating monastic life, which can be found An 18th century perspective of Dudley Castle in Priory Park, adjacent to the - today the newly restored ruins contain a ruins of St James’s Priory. state of the art visual show re-telling the Castle’s turbulent history..

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Dudley Arch Tectural
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A Visit to Himley Hall This Year’S Programme of Visits Began at Himley Hall, a Brownian Landscape Park on the Edge of Dudley
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