Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton

Photograph by Enjoy Wolverhampton

What to see
You’ll find accounts of Wolverhampton’s tourist attractions, shopping, eating out etc at City of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton City Guide or Enjoy Wolverhampton. Don’t miss What’s On Wolverhampton.

Wolverhampton Art Gallery: strong on Gainsborough

Also in Wolverhampton:
Bantock House Park & Museum
West Park
Wightwick Manor
Wolves Museum

Towns of Two Halves extracts
“Not expecting much of the place, I found that I enjoyed it from the moment the train pulled in. It’s a conveniently compact city: the centre sits within its ring-road like a fortified town protected by a moat.”
“I should have gone to the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, which has a café on top of its other attractions. I also missed the UK’s first set of traffic lights, still controlling the flow at Princess Square and still bearing the original black and white banding.”
“A statue of Lady Wulfrun, for whom the city is named, stands proudly in front. Noble of brow, she gazes unblinkingly into the future of her town. But the features of the statue that will catch your attention first and hold it longest are, regrettably, her brazen breasts. They are strangely independent.”
These are taken from the Wolverhampton chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.