Parks and Leisure Facilities
The main parkland is Haden Hill, the former home of the Haden family and now in the care of Sandwell MBC. Alongside Haden Hill House are Haden Hill Leisure Centre, housing a swimming pool and other facilities, and Cradley Heath Cricket Club.
The Cradley Heath Liberal Club has substantial facilities on Upper High Street, just east of Four-Ways. The Regis Restaurant, Old Hill, was for many years a community hall but the future has been in doubt after Sandwell MBC found it uneconomic.
Cradley High School and leisure centre was demolished down in 2009, but once provided basketball and indoor tennis facilities to the surrounding neighbourhood.
Voices In Harmony, a local choir, originated in Cradley Heath as "Sandwell COmmunity Choir" to perform Handel's The Messiah in October 1997 as part of the BT "Voices For Hospices" event.
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