Local Government

Oldbury was the parish in the county of Shropshire (surrounded by Worcestershire and Staffordshire) until the late 19th century. So it became the County Borough and was incorporated into the county of Worcestershire.

Inside 1966, Oldbury Borough merged with a County Borough of Smethwick and the Municipal Borough of Rowley Regis to form the County Borough of Oldbury, as well ingesting a portion of Tipton and a flyspeck fragment of Dudley. A county boundaries were as well changed to include a whole of Warley as part of Staffordshire.

Around 1974, Oldbury became part of the fresh Sandwell Metropolitan Borough (a merger between a county boroughs of West Bromwich and Warley) and is currently in the West Midlands Metropolitan County. Sandwell's headquarters come placed around Oldbury Town Centre. Oldbury includes a postcode areas of B68 and B69, a latter of which is shared by using section of Tipton.

Frank Skinner

A comedian Frank Skinner, who was innate within the Bristnall Hall vicinity of the town in 1957, is from Oldbury.

Transport Links

For terminated 30 years there were ternary train depot in the parish known as Oldbury; single 1 is however open, however under the freshly title.

A oldest living 1 is on the Stour Valley line (previous LMS Railway), at Bromford Road. It has been there since a 1850s. It was originally known as Oldbury & Bromford Lane Station, then Oldbury Station, but it is now known as Sandwell and Dudley.

A nigh railroad station to the centre of Oldbury was at Langley Green, at Western Road, on the Stourbridge Extension Line. It opened within April 1867 and was originally called Langley Green & Rood End Station. Notwithstanding the short half-mile long branch line, a Oldbury Railway, was attached to the station by having its have third platform. It opened inside November 1884; and Langley Green & Rood End Station was then renamed Langley Green. A Oldbury Railway, which likewise linked to Albright and Wilson, had two the rider station, known as Oldbury Station, in Halesowen Road; & the goods station, Oldbury Goods Station, at a Birmingham Canal Navigations wharf in Oldbury. Rider services ran to Oldbury Station until March 1915; & a line closed all more than as a freight line for Albright and Wilson. Completely traces of its viaduct and embankment beyond Tat Bank Road were destroyed when a M5 was built.

A M5 motorway passes by Oldbury on an elevated part rest on reinforced concrete pillars. Access is via junctions Deuce or even Triplet.

Etymology

A bury a portion of the town's title occurs as form of borough.