Old Glory

DEMOLITION

During the mid to late 1990s, a number of commercial and residential structures were demolished by Ruston Bucyrus 22-RB and 30-RB ball cranes across the Black Country. This was to make way for new road networks and new low-rise housing.

In the summer of 1994, Birmingham-based demolition contractor F C Richardson & Son Ltd demolished the West Midlands Travel bus garage/offices and parking facility on the Birmingham New Road in Dudley. This facility opened in 1929 and the reason for

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