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The Merry Hill Shopping Centre is located immediately east of Brierley Hill. One of the largest shopping centres in the UK, it was built in the 1980s on the grounds of Merry Hill Farm, the last working urban farm in the West Midlands, and the Round Oak Steelworks. The adjacent Waterfront office complex was also built on the former steelworks site, though with the onset of the recession in the late 2000s around half of its office units have become empty, with an application for government-funded Enterprise Zone status rejected. Current tenants at the Waterfront include the West Bromwich Building Society, which relocated from its previous base in West Bromwich in 2012.
Brierley Hill Town Hall, situated on Bank Street in the town centre, hosted several of Slade's first gigs during the early 1970s, although none of the members were actually from Brierley Hill.
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