Kates Hill

Kates Hill was not developed as a residential area until around the 1830s, when houses were built and occupied for people moving to Dudley to work in the fast-growing number of factories and coal pits that were emerging nearby.

There is still standing a historic grade II listed farm house, dating from the 17th century, at the top of Watsons Green Road; it is now a residential property as its farmland had disappeared by 1930.

[1] More houses were built in Watson's Green Road, Bridgewater Crescent and on the eastern side of Bunns Lane in the mid 1920s.

St Edmund’s Church of England School relocated to Hillcrest Road from Castle Hill during the early 1970s, being built on the site of several blocks of council flats.

St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Primary School also relocated a site formerly occupied by council flats around this time, from its previous location off Trindle Road.

The school buildings in Beechwood Road were finally demolished in 2016 and redeveloped as a private housing development called Blue Coat Drive.

Brewery Field Infant School opened in a wooden building at the junction of Corporation Road around 1930, also serving as a base for American soldiers during World War II.

The Rosland Estate was expanded in the late 1970s when several houses, along with warden-controlled bungalows and flats for elderly residents, were built in Iris Close.

The original Kates Hill Council School on Peel Street was built during the second half of the 19th century when the residential area was first being developed.