With a population of over two million people, the county of the West Midlands is easily among the more significant and important counties in England. The town of Dudley, with over two hundred thousand residents, is itself one of the more important towns in the county and thus it has quite a bit to answer to. Luckily Dudley performs its task admirably and its many lovely residents are for the most part kind, friendly, and fascinating.
The town is also quite old and as such it has plenty of interesting landmarks and monuments scattered about that thrill visitors and residents alike. Dudley Castle is the perfect example of just such a landmark. The castle dates back to the 1000s and it is an astonishingly beautiful relic of the Middle Ages. Most of the castle is in fact from the 1200s due to the fact that damage and attacks were sustained here and there during the unruly days that marked our Medieval past. In those days Dudley was definitely not what you would call crowded, though. The high population came much later in the form of the Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution forever changed the world and England was one of the countries where the Revolution flourished the most. Small towns that had quaint abbeys and lovely stone castles all of a sudden became filled with factories, smokestacks, and railways. Dudley was just such a town. Dudley had plenty of coal in and around its earth and this made it the perfect site for large scale mining. Soon coal pits and buildings were put up all around Dudley and homes for migrant workers began to pop up everywhere.
Dudley is quite close to Birmingham and, though Dudley is nothing like that behemoth of a metropolis, much of Dudley's growth can arguably be linked to old Birmy and its explosive growth. Interestingly enough, it seems that what goes around comes around because Dudley benefited from Birmingham's growth but it also fell prey to Birmingham's size during the second World War. Birmingham was a major target for Nazi bombers and it was ravaged by the time the war was over. Since Dudley was close to the city and no small town itself bombers saw fit to bomb Dudley as well. Luckily there wasn't too much damage but there were still quite a few deaths unfortunately. One of the great losses was the famed Dudley Opera House. This beautiful and proud building was built in the last years of the 1800s and it was truly a terrible tragedy when it burned to the ground. All the same, there is still plenty to see and to love when visiting Dudley and it is highly recommended that, if you have yet to experience the lovely atmosphere of this beautiful town, you book a flight or hop on the railways and ride straight to this fantastic burg. While there you may even want to peek over at our friend Birmingham and pay your condolences for the terrible bombing that occurred in both cities.
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