Local amenities include Jones Road Working Men's Club, a McDonald's drive through, Jones Road Newsagents, Tastebuds Café, Bushbury Working Men's Club, Strykers bowling alley, Wikid Pets, Dunstall Park Garage, Eurofit, Rainbow office furniture, and a café and Costa Coffee on Wolverhampton Science Park.
The second son of Ralph and Catharine Gough of Gosbrook House (later Gorsebrook House), Bushbury, Staffordshire, he was christened on 7 February 1825 at the church of Saint Peter, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire.