Additional services which briefly enter Darlaston are the Banga Buses & Choice Travel 530, between the Rocket Pool and Wolverhampton via Bilston and the 575 between Ettingshall and Wolverhampton, the 680 between Moxley and Bilston via Lower Bradley & the 523 between Wednesbury and Stowlawn all operated by Choice Travel.
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Moxley: an established private and council residential area in the west of the town close to the border with Bilston.
It was first developed during the early part of the 19th century when a handful of terraced houses were built to accommodate locals working in factories and mines and the area was created in 1845 out of land from Darlaston, Bilston and Wednesbury.
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National Express West Midlands and Midland Bus Company service 339 links the town to Bilston, Darlaston and Walsall.
The sculpture was unveiled on 19 October 1994 by Labour MP Dennis Turner, who had worked as a steelman at the Elizabeth blast furnace.
There was a second station in the area at Five Ways (on the border with Coseley between 1850 and 1962, but this station was one of the first victims of the Beeching Axe and the line upon which it was situated (between Dudley and Bilston) closed in 1968.
Titus Lowe was born in Bilston, England, the son of William Henry and Anna (Scribbins) Lowe, and came to America in 1892, at the age of 14, with his mother and sisters Annie, Louisa, and Mary.
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Lay Down with the Strawbs (2008) (double CD recorded live at The Robin in Bilston 5 March 2006)
The next occupant was Bilston county councillor James Gibbons, who lived there until his death in 1919, when it was sold to the Mitchell family.
However the SMURF project traces it back as far as Stow Heath, near Bilston, where it is marked by a marshy patch at the northern end of the City of Wolverhampton College Wellington Road campus; hence, SMURF uses the term "Wolverhampton arm" for this section of the Tame.