The Black Country Living Museum in Dudley is due to benefit from a £10m expansion programme.

The heritage park will feature a new replica street – called Old Birmingham Road – portraying the Black Country during the 1930s. It will include a motorcycle dealer; a butchery where meat products will be sold; a milliners and drapers; a wireless shop telling the story of mass communications during the period and a solicitors with a building society agency above telling the story of the rise of home ownership in the area.

Transport through Time will explain the importance of the automotive industry to the rise and fall of manufacturing in the area during the 20th century and will showcase revamped cars, motorcycles, trucks, trams and buses of the period.

A new exhibition will tell the story of how the area developed and contributed to the world economy in the 18–20th centuries to further educate visitors, while a new project called Access to the Collections will provide improved archiving for members of the public, visitors, researchers and other museums.