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Wolverhampton

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Wolverhampton (wl`vərhămp'tən), city (1991 pop. 263,501) and metropolitan district, W central England, in the Black Country Black Country, highly industrialized region, mostly in Staffordshire but partly in Worcestershire and Warwickshire, W central England. It includes the cities of Dudley , Rowley Regis (see Warley ), Tipton, Walsall , Wednesbury, West Bromwich , and Wolverhampton .
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. Wolverhampton is highly industrialized; products include automobiles, hardware, rayon, tires, and chemicals. St. Peter's Church in the city dates mostly from the 13th and 15th cent. Its grammar school was established in 1512. Teacher-training institutions and a technical school are also there.

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A 1929 speech by Jamaican doctor Harold Moody in Wolverhampton, England, reprinted in the Tribune, savaged the beneficent pretensions of British colonial education policy.
American midfielder Bobby Convey, giving his best performance of the season, scored a goal as English Football Championship leader Reading settled for a 1-1 draw with Wolverhampton.
1 Contemporary Art Center and "Strike" at Britain's Wolverhampton Art Gallery, perhaps suggests the contrary.
 
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