Prior to the New Town development, the town of Redditch was the centre of a farming community made up of large estates of farms and well as smaller independent farms.…
Despite extensive development in the 1970s & 1980s well the “New Town” was being created, there are still many buildings and sites of historic significance in the borough today. These…
In 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the designation of Redditch as a “New Town”, a group of local history enthusiast started a project to investigate and document the…
To write a comprehensive history book on a town such as Redditch and all the various events and activities that have made up its history would be a major project.…
Despite REdditch being designated a “New Town” in 1964, we must remember that it has a history stretching back 1000 years.. For a twenty year period, from 196a to 1984,…