Amblecote - in 'Staffordshire and the Black Country' - Michael Raven; 1988

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The name means 'the cottage by the river' (or sandbank), but today it is an industrial suburb of Stourbridge. It developed rapidly in the 19th Century. Glass making a nd fire-clay mining were its most important industries. The church is of yellow brick, built in 184104 by Samuel Heming. the centre of the Corbett Hospital is a Georgian house of nine bays with a Venetian window at the back and a handsome staircase. This actually lies in Worcestershire.

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