Mobile tyres fitting service in Smethwick near West Bromwich
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of car tyres, van tyres, 4X4 tyres & run-flat tyres. We
fit tyres at your place of work or home driveway. Tyres
fitting and balancing is fully guaranteed. Also car
batteries. Our low prices for tyres and car batteries
are fully inclusive, no hidden extras. We don't have
expensive tyres depots so our prices are always low.
We offer a complete range of tyres backed up by our
efficient and cost effective mobile tyres fitting
service for Smethwick near West Bromwich. So, rather than having to
travel to a traditional tyre depot to have tyres fitted,
you remain at home or at work and we come to you. This
is much more convenient… and, it also greatly reduces
our operating costs so we are able to slash our selling
prices of tyres by up to 40%.
Unlike many companies selling tyres on-line we have a
head office call centre. This provides advice and
technical information on all aspects of tyres. Also, for
those who prefer to place their order for tyres by
telephone, rather than by buying tyres on-line, we have
a freephone facility (0800 028 9000).
We are proud of our Customer service record, and we
fully guarantee our work. Please feel free to call our
freephone telephone number if you would like personal
help and service, we are always ready and willing to
explain the choices and make sure you are happy with our
sales and service for car tyres and car batteries.
More about Smethwick near West Bromwich
Smethwick (pronounced 'Smethick') is a town adjacent
to Birmingham and West Bromwich in England.
Originally the area was an Urban District and from 1894
a Municipal Borough in the county of Staffordshire. In
1907 it became a County Borough, independent of county
control, although remaining in Staffordshire for police
purposes. In 1966, Smethwick was merged with the
boroughs of Oldbury and Rowley Regis to form the new
County Borough of Warley. This in turn was merged with
West Bromwich in 1974 to form the metropolitan borough
of Sandwell, in the West Midlands county.
Smethwick is served by trains on both the "Jewellery
Line" and the West Coast Main Line. The Jewellery Line
links Birmingham Snow Hill station with Worcester,
Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. The West Coast
Main Line links Birmingham New Street railway station,
Coventry and Wolverhampton, with onward connections. The
station on the West Coast Main Line is called Smethwick
Rolfe Street. The former Smethwick West Station on the
old Stour Valley line was replaced by a new facility
opened at the same time as the Jewellery Line, serving
both routes, which is called Smethwick Galton Bridge.
Smethwick has previously been suggested to mean 'smiths'
place of work' however a more recent interpretation has
suggested the name means "The settlement on the smooth
land". Smethwick was recorded in the Domesday book as
Smedeuuich. Until the end of the 18th century it was an
outlying hamlet of the south Staffordshire village of
Harborne.
Grade I listed Galton Bridge spans the canal and
railway. When built, it was the longest single-span
bridge in the world. Its name commemorates Samuel
Galton, a local landowner and industrialist.
Matthew Boulton and James Watt opened their Soho Foundry
in the North of Smethwick in the late 18th century. In
1802, William Murdoch illuminated the foundry with gas
lighting of his own invention. The foundry was later
home to weighing scale makers W & T Avery. It should not
be confused with the nearby Soho Manufactory, arguably
the world's oldest factory, founded earlier by Boulton
and of which only faint archaeological traces remain.
The world's oldest working engine, made by Boulton and
Watt, the Smethwick Engine originally stood near Bridge
Street, Smethwick. It is now at Thinktank, the new
science museum in Birmingham.
Other former industry included railway rolling stock
manufacture, at the Birmingham Railway Carriage and
Wagon Company factory; screws and other fastenings from
Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, engines from Tangye, tubing
from Evered's, steel pen nibs from British Pens and
various products from Chances Glassworks, including
lighthouse lenses and the glazing for the Crystal
Palace. The London works, in North Smethwick, has,
interestingly, manufactured the metalwork for the
Crystal Palace.
The Ruskin Pottery Studio, named in honour of the artist
John Ruskin, was in Oldbury Road. Many English churches
have stained glass windows made at Hardman Studios in
Lightwoods House, or, before that, by the Camm family.
Former Prime Minister John Major's parents married at
Holy Trinity Church, Smethwick there while they were on
tour with a music hall variety act. Actor Julie Walters
and comedian Frank Skinner are both from Smethwick.
In 1966, Smethwick ceased to be a single County Borough
and was absorbed into the new County Borough of Warley,
geographically although not administratively in
Worcestershire.
In the 1960's, a large council estate in the west of
Smethwick was built. It was officially known as "Galton
Village" but as all of the homes were concrete blocks
the estate was known locally as the 'concrete jungle'.
The estate quickly became unpopular and was redeveloped
in the early 1990s with modern low-rise housing.
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