Using changing facilities in the nearby Red Cow public house was never a satisfactory situation and in 1978 a liaison was formed by then chairman, Vic Dolphin with Pelsall Cricket & Sports Club.

Promotion was secured after two seasons at that level, but it was obvious that a number of improvements were needed at The Bush ground to bring it up to the required standard for an assault on the Premier Division.

In fact, Villa were within three games of making it to Wembley Stadium in the FA Vase in 1992–93 before narrowly losing out to an extra-time own goal at the hands of Buckingham Town.

In January 2004, former Wolverhampton Wanderers player Dean Edwards was appointed as player-manager but was unable to prevent the club's relegation and left at the end of the season.

There was another change of personnel at the helm when former player Shaun Mason returned to the club, initially as first-team manager then chairman as Mark Bentley took over the reins.

It has a stand behind one goal which came from the ground of the defunct Telford-based club GKN Sankey, and seats which came from Molineux, home of Wolverhampton Wanderers,[2] as well as unusually-shaped concrete dugouts.