EPW001107 ENGLAND (1920). General view of central West Bromwich, West Bromwich, 1920

Barton Street was originally called Old End, which was a settlement on the edge of West Bromwich Heath before enclosure in 1801. It threads its way towards Oak House and many of the old houses were cleared in the 1920's as part of slum clearance.



"Some clearance was carried out under the WestBromwich Corporation Act of 1913. (fn. 32) After thepassing of the 1919 Housing Act the corporation scheduled nearly 2,900 houses as unfit, but by 1933 only 346 had been demolished, chiefly in Barton Street (in the former Old End area) and Swan Village.



From: 'West Bromwich: Public services', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp. 46-50. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx Date accessed: 15 October 2013.

Barton Street was originally called Old End, which was a settlement on the edge of West Bromwich Heath before enclosure in 1801. It threads its way towards Oak House and many of the old houses were cleared in the 1920's as part of slum clearance.



"Some clearance was carried out under the WestBromwich Corporation Act of 1913. (fn. 32) After thepassing of the 1919 Housing Act the corporation scheduled nearly 2,900 houses as unfit, but by 1933 only 346 had been demolished, chiefly in Barton Street (in the former Old End area) and Swan Village.



From: 'West Bromwich: Public services', A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17: Offlow hundred (part) (1976), pp. 46-50. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx Date accessed: 15 October 2013.