Old Hill
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Old Hill is a locality in the metropolitan borough of Sandwell in West Midlands, England. It is served by Old Hill railway station.
It is the birthplace of cricketer Eric Hollies and his father Billy Hollies, one of the last of the underarm bowlers in League cricket. Another famous resident is the comedienne and comic actress Josie Lawrence.
Old Hill High Street is home to a News and Superstore shop, a former butchers, Firkins, KFC and six different churches. Old Hill has undergone redevelopment. The former site of the Eliza Tinsley factory has become a housing estate, built by Barratt Homes.
There used to be a market, but this has since shut down and remains empty.[when?]
The town centre was by-passed with the construction of a new single-carriageway road in 1991, relieving the town centre of some of its heavy congestion. The new road runs alongside Heathfield Foundation Technology College (previously Heathfield High School) which was built during the 1960s and is the only secondary school in Old Hill and Cradley Heath.
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