Living Museum Awarded ￡9.8m

A project to save landmark community and commercial buildings from demolition and rebuild them at the Black Country Living Museum has been awarded ￡9.8m from the National Lottery.

Some of the buildings identified to be moved brick-by-brick to the museum include West Bromwich’s Gas Showroom and Dudley’s Woodside Library.

Others, such as Wolverhampton’s Elephant & Castle Pub and Lye’s Marsh & Baxter’s Butchers, will be recreated from archive material and images.

The scheme, which will create 450 jobs in the area, will allow the museum to tell the story of the Black Country up to the closure of the Baggeridge Coal Mine in 1968.  Full article at: https://goo.gl/uWQnx1