Springfield, Wolverhampton
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Springfield is an area of Wolverhampton
in the United Kingdom
near the city centre, currently undergoing major redevelopment.
Landmarks within the district include the site of Wolverhampton Low Level railway station
, and the disused Springfield Brewery that made Springfield Bitter from 1873 to 1991. The site was originally chosen because of its high quality springwater. In its last few years it was owned by Mitchells and Butlers.
The Brewery's Victorian listed buildings were gutted by fire in 2004 but plans are still on the board to preserve them as part of a redevelopment.
Don Howe, the now-retired footballer and football manager, was born at Springfield in 1935.
Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. For Eurostat purposes Walsall and Wolverhampton is a NUTS 3 region and is one of five boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "West Midlands" NUTS 2 region...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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near the city centre, currently undergoing major redevelopment.
Landmarks within the district include the site of Wolverhampton Low Level railway station
Wolverhampton Low Level railway station
Wolverhampton Low Level was a railway station on Sun Street, in Springfield, Wolverhampton, England .It was built by the Great Western Railway, on their route from London to Birkenhead via Birmingham...
, and the disused Springfield Brewery that made Springfield Bitter from 1873 to 1991. The site was originally chosen because of its high quality springwater. In its last few years it was owned by Mitchells and Butlers.
The Brewery's Victorian listed buildings were gutted by fire in 2004 but plans are still on the board to preserve them as part of a redevelopment.
Don Howe, the now-retired footballer and football manager, was born at Springfield in 1935.
External links
- http://www.larry-arnold.info/photography/Wolverhampton/index.htm
- http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/brewery.htm
- http://www.lightingthedarkness.co.uk/Springfield%20M&B.htm
- http://www.waterscape.com/pdf/download?id=1836 pdf
- http://www.wolverhamptoncity.co.uk/content.php?c=2&cp=page/page.php&content_id=693140831911394
- http://www.springfieldbrewery.co.uk Historic film and images of the now destroyed Springfield Brewery Wolverhampton