Test cricketLe Test cricket est une forme de cricket disputée au niveau international. C'est la forme la plus longue de jeu : un test-match est limité à cinq jours de durée. Seules douze sélections nationales sont habilitées par l'International Cricket Council à pratiquer le Test cricket. La première rencontre de ce genre a été disputée en 1877. Le Test cricket est une forme de first-class cricket. Le premier emploi du mot « test » dans un contexte de cricket international remonte à 1861-1862, lors d'une tournée privée de joueurs anglais en Australie.
Beeching cutsvignette|Le viaduc à l'abandon de Lobb Ghyll, construit pour la Midland Railway (1888), qui équipait la ligne Skipton-Ilkley dans le Yorkshire, a été désaffecté en 1965. La politique des Beeching cuts (ou Axe Beeching) est un programme de réduction et de restructuration du réseau ferroviaire britannique. Il a été adopté sur la base de deux rapports, The Reshaping of British Railways (1963) et The Development of the Major Railway Trunk Routes (1965), du baron (publiés par le British Railways Board).
SmethwickSmethwick (ˈsmɛðᵻk) is an industrial town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England. It lies west of Birmingham city centre. Historically it was in Staffordshire and then Worcestershire before being placed into then West Midlands County. In 2019, the ward of Smethwick had an estimated population of 15,246, while the wider built-up area subdivision has a population of 53,653. It was suggested that the name Smethwick meant "smiths' place of work", but a more recent interpretation has suggested the name means "the settlement on the smooth land".
WednesburyWednesbury (ˈwɛnzbəri) is a market town in Sandwell in the West Midlands County, England. It is located near the source of the River Tame. At the 2011 Census the town had a population of 37,817. The substantial remains of a large ditch excavated in St Mary's Road in 2008, following the contours of the hill and predating the Early Medieval period, has been interpreted as part of a hilltop enclosure and possibly the Iron Age hillfort long suspected on the site.
RugeleyRugeley (ˈruːdʒli or ) is a market town and civil parish in the Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England. It lies on the north-eastern edge of Cannock Chase next to the River Trent; it is situated north of Lichfield, south-east of Stafford, north-east of Hednesford and south-west of Uttoxeter. At the 2021 Census, the population was 24,386. Rugeley is twinned with Western Springs, Illinois and, in July 1962, both towns made telephone history on national television when the chairman of Rugeley Urban District Council made the first telephone call via the new Telstar satellite to the mayor of Western Springs.
CoseleyCoseley (ˈkoʊzli ) is a village in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands County, England. It is situated north of Dudley itself, on the border with Wolverhampton. Though it is a part of the Dudley North constituency. It also falls within the Wolverhampton South-East parliamentary constituency. Coseley was originally a village in the ancient manor of Sedgley. In 1867, it joined with Brierley and Ettingshall to break away from the parish of Sedgley and formed Lower Sedgley Local Board District.
SedgleySedgley is a town in the north of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. Historically part of Staffordshire, Sedgley is on the A459 road between Wolverhampton and Dudley, and was formerly the seat of an ancient manor comprising several smaller villages, including Gornal, Gospel End, Woodsetton, Ettingshall, Coseley, and Brierley (now Bradley). In 1894, the manor was split to create the Sedgley and Coseley urban districts, the bulk of which were later merged into the Dudley County Borough in 1966.
