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Coal Pool

Coordinates: 52°36′04″N 1°58′24″W / 52.6010°N 1.9732°W / 52.6010; -1.9732
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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.

References

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  1. ^ "Walsall - The growth of the town | A History of the County of Stafford: Volume 17 (pp. 146-165)". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  2. ^ Norman Bayley
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52°36′04″N 1°58′24″W / 52.6010°N 1.9732°W / 52.6010; -1.9732