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Brandhall is a district of Oldbury in central England, in the south-west of Sandwell near the borders with the boroughs of Birmingham and Halesowen. The development of the area got underway during the 1930s with the construction of several hundred private houses along the Hagley Road and Wolverhampton Road, as well as several side roads leading off the main dual carrigeways. But most of Brandhall was developed in the 1950s and 1960s when several thousand council houses, flats and bungalows were built by Oldbury Council. Some of the high-rise flats in Brandhall have recently been demolished and in their place housing associations have built new low rise homes.
Brandhall (along with the rest of the Oldbury borough, and the neighbouring boroughs of Smethwick and Rowley Regis) became part of Warley County Borough in 1966, but this arrangement lasted just eight years until Warley merged with West Bromwich to form Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in 1974.
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