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The websites listed below are relevant to studies of the local history of Oldbury. Please contact the Webmaster if you have a relevant site for inclusion here.

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Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell Sites

Community History and Archives Service for Sandwell [CHAS], The borough's archives, with access to documents and photographs of Oldbury www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/community-history-and-archives-service

Heritage Forum for organisations in Sandwell connected with the borough's heritage, local history and family

www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk/ccm/navigation/leisure-and-culture/local-history-and-heritage/heritage-forum-online

Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell Information on all the current services within the borough are accessible from this page

 www.laws.sandwell.gov.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neighbouring Local History Sites

Birmingham and Midland Society for Genealogy and Heraldry: covers Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire http://www.bmsgh.org/

Quinton Local History Society. Part of Quinton township lay in Warley

 www.qlhs.org.uk

Smethwick Heritage Centre

 www.smethwick-heritage.co.uk

Smethwick Local History Society

 http://www.smethwicklocalhistory.co.uk/
Wednesbury Local History Society http://www.wednesburyhistorysociety.co.uk/

West Bromwich Pauper Project. This is relevant to Oldbury because the town was in the West Bromwich Poor Law Union from 1837

 www.westbrompaupers.org.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Country and West MidlandSites

The 'Black Country' is generally taken as covering the four present-day boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, and Wolverhampton, although not all parts of these boroughs were in the traditional area of the 'Black Country'.

Black Country History. This site has pictures from Sandwell Archives which can be accessed from the search facilities on the site using keywords such as 'Oldbury', 'Langley' etc

Black Country Living Museum

http://www.bclm.co.uk/
Black Country Society. The website of the society, publishers of 'Blackcountryman'. Extensive links to forums and general Black Country sites http://www.blackcountrysociety.co.uk/
Revolutionary Players: An interesting site for exploring West Midlands History through time, place, people and five themes. http://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/home.stm
Staffordshire History: wide ranging site with many links http://www.staffshistory.org.uk/
Worcestershire Regimental Museum: Details of the museum housed in Worcester Museum http://www.worcestercitymuseums.org.uk/coll/worcs/worcind.htm
Workshop of the World: a project to catalogue industrial archives in the four Black Country boroughs www.wolverhampton.gov.uk/leisure_ culture/libraries/archives/workshop

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

National Sites

Access to Archives: a site which catalogues archives throughout the UK. It may be searched by keyword, eg 'Oldbury', and is useful for identifying documents in other archives such as Birmingham, Worcestershire and Shropshire, which are all relevant to Oldbury
Archives Hub: catalgue of documents in university libraries http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/
British History Online: Scans of historical books including 'Victoria' County Histories http://www.british-history.ac.uk/subject.aspx?subject=5
Commonwealth War Graves Commission: searchable database on graves of servicemen http://www.cwgc.org/
Free BMD: free access to index of births, marriage and deaths 1837-1983. Links to new sites for data on census and parish register records http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/
Historical Directories: searchable scans of old trade or town directories throughout the country http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/
'Images of England. National Monuments Record site which records notable buildings throughout the country. Searchable by placename, each monument photographed.
National Archives: the catalogue of documents held in the National Archives at Kew, It may be searched by keyword, eg 'Oldbury www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline
Pastscape: National Monuments Record information. Searchable by placename http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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