The Black Country is an area of England's Midlands. It is mainly urban, covering most of the Dudley, Sandwell and Walsall Metropolitan Boroughs, with the City of Wolverhampton sometimes included. The towns of Dudley and Tipton are generally considered to be the centre.
The Oak House, West Bromwich. A Yeoman Farmer's house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century, it represents a rare surviving building from the pre-industrial Black Country.
An 18th century enamelled snuff box made in Bilston, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Glass cones where glass was made and worked were once a common sight in Brierley Hill, Amblecote and Wordsley. This example, now a museum, is in Wordsley near Stourbridge
Chain making, once a major Black Country industry, as demonstrated at the Black Country Living Museum.
Metropolitan Borough of Dudley
The Metropolitan Borough of Dudley is a metropolitan borough of West Midlands, England. It was created in 1974 following the Local Government Act 1972, through a merger of the existing Dudley County Borough with the municipal boroughs of Stourbridge and Halesowen.
Dudley, the administrative centre of the borough
The Merry Hill Shopping Centre is one of the largest shopping centres in the UK
Evolve Campus of Dudley College
Russells Hall Hospital