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Blakenhall is a ward in Wolverhampton, England. ==Toponymy and history== Blakenhall's name, according to toponymists comes from the Old English 'blæc', meaning 'black' or dark coloured, & 'halh' meaning 'nook' or 'corner'.〔David Horovitz's 'Place Names Of Staffordshire'〕 It was developed during the late 19th century just south of the town centre, with hundreds of terraced houses, some with shop fronts, being built on the Dudley Road (A459) towards Sedgley, as well as many being built in the side streets running off. Wanderers Avenue can be found in Blakenhall, the original home of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who regularly played on the adjacent Phoenix Park until 1889. Names of the players can be found on the front of the terraced houses along the street. The club was founded as 'St Luke's Football Club'〔http://www.wolves.co.uk/page/History/0,,10307~482291,00.html Wolverhampton Wanderers Club History〕 in 1877, a school side, before merging with another local football and cricket team, 'The Wanderers' two years later to form Wolverhampton Wanderers. Wolverhampton's very first council houses were built at Blakenhall, on Birmingham Road, in 1902, though it would be nearly 20 years before mass council housing building took place anywhere else in the town.〔()〕 By the 1980s, however, these properties were outdated and they were finally demolished in the spring of 1988.〔()〕 Vehicle maker AJS moved to a new factory built around Graiseley House on 1914.〔(Graiseky Hill Works ) on the Wolverhampton Local History website.〕 It closed on their insolvency in 1931 and the site, now a supermarket, is marked by a sculpture, ''The Lone Rider'', designed by Steve Field and carved by Robert Bowers, assisted by Michael Scheuermann. In 1919, when work began on the Wolverhampton's first major council housing development to rehouse families from town centre slums, a site around Green Lane (later renamed Birmingham Road and Thompson Avenue) and Parkfield Road was included in this development.〔()〕 In 1960, 1st Blakenhall Scout Group was formed by Maurice Lane. Maurice was influential in setting up the group which is still going strong today and still recruiting young people aged 6–14. Although Scouting has changed somewhat since the days 1st Blakenhall has formed the group now meet at St Johns Methodist Church near to the Fighting Cocks crossroads and is open to both male and females in the Blakenhall area.〔(1st Blakenhall Scouts )〕 The next major development in Blakenhall took place in the 1960s when several tower blocks were constructed. The tallest of these tower blocks, Cobden House, was demolished by a controlled explosion in August 2002. Two smaller tower blocks were cleared in mechanical demolitions during 2007. The final tower block, Phoenix Rise, was demolished in the spring of 2011. On 8 July 1996, as nationally reported in the news, a machete attack took place at St Luke's Nursery School in Blakenhall, when 32-year-old local man Horrett Campbell ran riot - stabbing 21-year-old nursery nurse Lisa Potts and six children aged between two and four years. He was arrested at his tower block flat in nearby Villiers House the following evening〔()〕 and committed for trial at Stafford Crown Court later that year. He denied the charge of attempted murder but admitted causing grievous bodily harm with intent, but was convicted on seven counts of the more serious charge on 9 December 1996.〔()〕 Due to paranoid schizophrenia, he was detained indefinitely in a mental hospital on 7 March 1997 when a judge at Teesside Crown Court, Cleveland, ruled that Campbell was mentally ill.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blakenhall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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