Princes End

Princes End is an area of Tipton, West Midlands, England, near the border with Coseley (of which approximately half of the area was part of until 1966), which was heavily developed during the 19th century with the construction of factories. The population of the Sandwell ward taken at the 2011 census was 12,981. Several hundred terraced houses were built around the same time to accommodate the factory workers. Many council houses were built in the area between 1920 and 1980, as well as many private houses.

The centre of Princes End is situated on the A4037 Dudley - Wednesbury main road. It includes shops, flats and houses.

Other neighbourhoods in Princes End include the Tibbington and Glebefields council estates.

The established residential areas of Ocker Hill and Wednesbury Oak are also part of the Princes End, which still contain some 19th century and early 20th century buildings. However, there are many newer developments in these areas.

The Tibbington estate was built by the local council in the late 1920s and early 1930s, with a small part being added in the 1950s. Mining subsidence on the estate led to a whole street, Elm Terrace, being demolished in the early 1980s, followed soon after by several houses in Sycamore Road. The Elm Crescent site was redeveloped as Walker Grange, a sheltered housing scheme for elderly people, which opened in 1991. A section of houses in Laburnum Road, Fern Avenue, Chestnut Avenue and Laurel Road was demolished in 2007 and redeveloped with housing and a children's play area.

Moat Farm was built by the local council during the 1930s and has been extensively regenerated since the early 1990s, with some houses being demolished and the remaining ones being refurbished. It has long been known locally as the "Lost City", as when it was built it was isolated from other residential areas and surrounded by derelict land, railways and canals.

The first section of the Glebefields Estate was built by the local council just after the end of World War II. The second phase was built in the early 1960s the estate was completed by the end of the decade, and featured two tower blocks (Beatty House and Jellicoe House, which were demolished in 2004) as well as many low rise flats and maisonettes, some of which were demolished in the late 1980s and early 1990s to be replaced by new private and social housing. Rodney House mutli-storey flats in Grace Road, also built in the 1960s, were demolished in late 2000.

Wednesbury Oak was originally a small settlement on the main road leading towards Wednesbury and Walsall, but it was expanded in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of a large private housing estate, which was originally in the Urban District of Coseley.

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