This open-air museum brings the Black Country’s proud industrial heritage back to life by recreating a 19th-century village that’s both fun and fascinatingIn a nutshell
Over 50 buildings from around the Black Country – including a pub,Methodist chapel, school and shops – have been dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt to create a late 19th-century Black Country village in an open-air museum in Dudley. The 26-acre site was chosen because it was already domestic to a stretch of canal and disused lime kilns and a coal mine – all cornerstones of the industrial revolution.
Fun fact[br]The Black Country was the first position to successfully harness the power of steam, or changed world in doing so. The museum has the world’s only full-scale replica of the [Thomas] Newcomen engine,invented 1712, which is the size of a house. See more Black County facts here.
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Source: theguardian.com