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The Summer 2025 Transfer Window Thread

Law's Bus said:
You'd be surprised. Everyone forgets just how large Wolverhampton proper actually is, everyone sees the statistics about the council area that doesn't cover the whole city by a long shot and compares it with other council area that are much bigger than the place they are named after.

Whilst there's quite a lot of spare office space in the city centre, it's mostly 60s/70s/80s build so just not up to modern requirements for power, data connectivity etc. There is a lot of suppressed demand there.
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Speaking as a professional geographer I agree completely. My family goes back many, many generations in Willenhall/Short Heath/Darlaston and Bilston/Bradley.
With the 1970s reorganisation, West Midland councils were rejigged so that the 4 of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley and the completely fake Sandwell were all supposed to have about a quarter of a million inhabitants and Birmingham 1 million. Consequently, Wolverhampton shrank in 'influence' and both Walsall and Dudley grew. As far as I could pick up as a youngster, Wolverhampton's strong zone of influence in the conurbation also included Willenhall, Darlaston and Coseley. I daren't mention the strongly independent republic of Bilston.
 
I grew up in New Invention, Walsall Council but Wolverhampton postcode and definitely more Wolverhampton than Walsall.
 
Deutsch Wolf said:
I grew up in New Invention, Walsall Council but Wolverhampton postcode and definitely more Wolverhampton than Walsall.
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Yep. Post codes, religion, the lot were leaning Wolverhampton way. Just like the Willenhall mob that followed Wolves.
I grew up just down the road in Wednesfield and played cricket for a while for Bloxwich. I always thought that your neck of the woods and Short Heath were more Wolverhampton focused than Walsall.
PS I think 'New Invention' is a brilliant name for a place. Do you know its origins?
 
Kenny said:
According to wiki

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Brilliant little story!
Thx for looking. I am a tad busy but always into a bit of local history.
On stories, reminds me of a mate from down South who always creased up when he saw the name 'Wombourne'. He thought it was pronounced as 'Womb Ourne' and just couldn't imagine why it would be called that..... He thought that maybe they were a set of cunts who originally lived there.
 
Wellen Wolf said:
Yep. Post codes, religion, the lot were leaning Wolverhampton way. Just like the Willenhall mob that followed Wolves.
I grew up just down the road in Wednesfield and played cricket for a while for Bloxwich. I always thought that your neck of the woods and Short Heath were more Wolverhampton focused than Walsall.
PS I think 'New Invention' is a brilliant name for a place. Do you know its origins?
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Yes, the historic Wolverhampton / Walsall boundary is along the Sneyd Brook, so just east of the M6. The historic Wolverhampton / Cannock boundary is along the current Cannock Chase district / South Staffordshire Actually boundary.

Pelsall, Featherstone and Brownhills are also within the lands granted to Lady Wulfruna and the historic parish, as is Arley. Yes, the place the Severn Valley Railway runs through.

The Boundary Commission report that led to the changes in 1966 literally says "we put Willenhall in with Walsall against all the principals just to make Wolverhampton smaller".
 
Wellen Wolf said:
I am reliably informed that some of the inhabitants can on occasion be challenging.
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Would you perhaps call them... beeches?

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