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The memorial on the Birmingham New Road at Lanesfield, recognising the trees in Wolverhampton's part of Coseley

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The late 1990s memorial on Grange Park, Roseville that also recognises the trees, together with the Thomas Barratt memorial seen below.  The trees on Grange Park were planted in around the late 1940s and are not memorial trees as these of course are along the roadside

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The newer Coseley Memeorial on Grange Park with the same inscription as the smaller memorial, but also including the Coseley Coat of Arms, from the days when Coseley was the second largest Urban District in the country

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The Woodsetton Memorial which was situated at Mount Tabor Methodist Church on Sedgley Road and was relocated in recent years to further up the Sedgley Road at the junction with Parkes Hall Road

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The original memorial plaque on Barratt Court in Princes End and the more recent additional plaque with more details.  Thomas Barratt VC came from Darkhouse Lane in Coseley and Barratt Court was one of many three-storey blocks of flats built by Coseley in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Because this part of Coseley was taken over by West Bromwich who later became Sandwell and is close to Tipton, it has led to an incorrect belief that Thomas Barratt was a Tipton man.  Although the Coseley part of Princes End is often thought of as Tipton due to the fact that a large part of Princes End was always over the Coseley/Sedgley border, the Coseley part of Princes End has kept its separate character to the Tipton part and many Coseley built houses are around the area, being the typical Coseley styles.  It is possible to see many flats the same style as Barratt Court in the Dudley and Wolverhampton parts of Coseley.

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