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Oldbury Town Trail leaflet now available
Mortuary Chapel of Oldbury Cemetery demolished
Site Last updated: 18 June 2008
"WHITEHEATH & LION FARM - A CENTURY OF MEMORIES" is now available on this site - see Publications
Welcome to Oldbury, Langley and Warley!
NOTE - THIS PRELIMINARY WEBSITE WILL BE UPDATED BY A BIGGER RESTRUCTURED ONE IN 2008 WHEN HISTORICAL DATA ON THE OLDBURY AREA WILL START TO BE ADDED - please keep visiting to check
Oldbury is one of the six towns that make up the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, just west of Birmingham in the West Midlands.
It became an Urban District in the 1890's with three main townships, Oldbury itself, Langley and Warley. It received its charter in 1935 and became the 'Municipal Borough of Oldbury'.
In 1964 it was amalgamated with Rowley Regis and Smethwick as the new 'Borough of Warley', taking the name of the small township within Oldbury.
A decade later the Borough of Warley was combined with the Borough of West Bromwich to form the new 'Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell'.
This website is dedicated to recording the history of Oldbury, Langley and Warley and the activities of the three local history societies that operate in its area:
Old Warley Local History Society
All three societies were established at local libraries, and have collected and published information on the history of the area. The site will be expanded to cover all aspects of Oldbury's history, using the research carried out by the societies, and the archive of documents and photographs that we have built up.
We welcome information and questions on the history of the area, and gifts or loans of photographs and documents we can scan to add to the archive. You can contact us by letter, telephone or e-mail.
We are a 'local history' rather than a 'family history' site, but the distinction is blurred, and we welcome family data which so often feed into our understanding of the local area. We are happy to [try to] answer questions on Oldbury arising from your family research.
