This process ceased in about 1950 when the local council earmarked the area for housing development, to rehouse hundreds of families from the dilapidated 19th-century terraces in the town centre around The Inhedge and Stafford Street.
The land at Russells Hall was then made safe and allowed to settle until house building commenced.
Until the creation of the traffic island near Russells Hall Hospital, it was possible to see part of the blocked-up portal of a bridge which took a railway line under Kingswinford Road.
[4] A large area of public open space, known as Russells Hall park, exists around the centre of the estate and in 2005 was earmarked by Dudley council as a possible site for mass housing development.
The park has a children’s play area, skatepark and a non-turf cricket pitch.