Kingswinford in Pictures

Kingswinford continues to step boldly forward with confidence. Although the village dates back over 900 years with a colourful and sometimes turbulant past, present day Kingswinford is a positive place in which to live and work.

• The small shopping precinct at the centre of the village is know as Townsend Place.
• Built by the local property developer Charles Kenchington.
• Precinct designed by local architect William Homer.
• Built in 1963 and originally consisted of 12 shops, supermarket, a bank and a doctors surgery.
• The round MEB building was designed by William Page at his offices on the Tettenhall Road in Wolverhampton.
• State-of-the-art when built; with a 2½ inch thick concrete roof, windows on every side and fully air-conditioned.
• Cost £110,000 in 1963.
• The MEB vacated the building several years ago and it is now the Capital Appliance Centre.

Point of interest - Arthur Tyler Senior was responsible for laying the floor in the Kingswinford "dome" and his son Arthur Tyler Junior laid the floor in the Greenwich "Millennium" Dome.