Black Country Living Museum 's 1940s-1960s town is given go-ahead
The Black Country Living Museum will be ‘Forging Ahead’ as plans for its new 1940s-1960s town were given the go-ahead.
The popular museum submitted a planning application to Dudley Council for its ambitious £23m Forging Ahead project.
The new town will include 25 buildings and structures including Ambrose of Kingswinford Ice Cream Dairy, Stanton’s Music Shop in Dudley and Wolverhampton’s Elephant and Castle public house.
The museum has received support from numerous organisations to date including a pledge from the Heritage Lottery Fund of £9.8m.
Last month, the Black Country Museum revealed artists’ impressions of how the new town would look.
Museum director Andrew Lovett previously said: “This is an incredibly ambitious, once-in-a-lifetime project.
“Our research so far has helped us uncover incredible stories that will help us piece together the revolutionary time that was the ‘40s-60s.”
Dudley Council approved the plans, subject to conditions.
