the Wonderful Wyrley Colliery intended that a town was erst a mining town, using metal-metalwork within outlying areas. A [http://www.canals.btinternet.co.uk/canals/wyrleyessingtonroot.htm Wyrley & Essington Canal] lives touching. A town nowadays serves largely as a dormitory for commuters to Birmingham and Wolverhampton, encouraged by the building of the nearby M6 Toll private motorway. A train depot is known as Landywood.

The 'Great Wyrley Outrages'

A place was a scene of the 'Swell Wyrley Outrages' involving half a dozen horse slashings at Plant Pit Meadow, for which a local solicitor, George Edalji, was convicted in the gross miscarriage of justice, & sentenced to sevener years by using tough labour. He was freed around 1906 after the Chief Justice within Bahamas and others had pleaded his pack. Eventually he experienced non been pardoned & a constabulary saved him under surveillance. A Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was persuaded to 'turn detective' to prove the human's innocence. This he proved when eight months of operate, & the human was freed & exonerated by a Home Office committee, although no compensation was awarded. A experience is related within Conan Doyle's A Story of Mr. George Edalji (1907, expanded re-issue within 1985). It was given the fictitious gloss in the novel by Julian Barnes, Arthur & George (2005)- which has been nominated for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Local myth remembers a Outrages to own been enacted by 'A Wyrley Gang' although it were the function of one human, a local butcher's son & erstwhile sailor known as Royden Sharp. Poison pen letters in the name of the made-up 'Wyrley Gang' continued for some other twenty-xxv years, however these were posted from either outside a town by Enoch Knowles of Wednesbury, who was arrested & convicted within 1934.