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Title: Dudley Address
Post by: brix1961 on Friday 20 April 07 22:52 BST (UK)

Could anyone tell me where in Dudley was Caddicks End? My g g grandmother was living there when she had her first child in 1853.

Brix 1961

Title: Re: Dudley Address
Post by: StintonLomas on Saturday 21 April 07 17:45 BST (UK)

Hi
http://cmis.dudley.gov.uk/CMISWebPublic/Binary.ashx?Document=5448

Page 2 map shows it SW of Castlefoot Glass and NW of the Gas Works amnd to the East of the Dudley canal tunnel and shows a Windmill and an Iron Furnace in the area.

I haven't been able to pinpoint it on a modern map (Yet)

Title: Re: Dudley Address
Post by: brix1961 on Saturday 21 April 07 19:59 BST (UK)

Thanks very much for that! Doesn't sound like it was a particularly pleasant place to live at that time.

Brix1961

Title: Re: Dudley Address
Post by: camsnan on Sunday 06 May 07 06:21 BST (UK)

Your right Brix1961 Dudley and the whole of the Black Country was not a pleasant place to live in 1853.  I doubt the Gas Works were there then, but even so the area was full of mines, iron works, blast furnaces, the air was full of grime, but this is what gave the area it's unique and colourful history.