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The HISTORY of REDDITCH New Town
1990 Earthquake rocks Redditch, students as Redditch College are evacuated.
Former Smallwood Hospital reopens after 4 years as multi-function Health Centre.
Needle Industries sheds 80 workers at Studley works.
Tescos opens Superstore in Oakenshaw.
Redditch Borough Council takes over running of Forge Mill Museum.
Sandfords DIY Store In Greenland closes.
Work starts of Bordesley Abbey/Forge Mill Visitors centre.
Work starts on new church, St. John the Evangelist in Greenlands.
1991 Clews Road Business park built.
McDonald's Drive Through comes to Oakenshaw.
Receivers bought in as Terrys collapses.
Saft purchased the Swedish NIFE batteries company.
1992 Abbey Stadium £800,000 all-weather running track opened.
An American firm wins contact to run Britain's first privately run jail at Blakenhurst.
Bordesley Abbey Visitors centre opened by Bill “Compo” Owen.
Heaphys moves out of Kingfisher Centre.
Improvements to Redditch railway station starts.
Mayfields prefabs to get £1m tonic.
New College developments start.
Trafford Park Retail park development.
Woodrow estate facelift starts.
1993 £6.5m Kingfisher Centre refurbishment planned.
Alvechurch by-pass opens.
HMS Kingfisher axed by Royal Navy.
Lo-cost first-time buyer homes to go on sale in Winyates.
New railway station building officially opened by BBC presenter Kay Alexander.
Redditch Girls Brigade celebrate 100th anniversary.
Tardebigge and Headless Cross WI's to close.
The Alcad factory closes, products moved to the Swedish factory.
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