first phase of the by-pass. General Facilities Old Hill High Street is home to several takeaways, ladies clothes shop, pet food shop, former butchers, KFC (opened in 2005 on the site of a former public house) and six different churches. Old Hill has undergone redevelopment. Old Hill Police station stands on the Halesowen Road (Closed 2018). The Eliza Tinsley factory was sold off in 2005 due to the firm's financial difficulties, demolished, and replaced by housing on Tinsley Avenue. The Cook Shop is the longest serving business in Old Hill and in 2010 celebrated its 120th anniversary under the ownership of the same family. It closed in 2014 Old Hill's market hall closed down in 2006. In December 2010 it reopened as a Costcutter store. The old Plaza bingo hall, formerly a theatre, has been redeveloped and reopened April 2010. The building now called the Plaza was originally The Grand, a cinema, and then became the Plaza, a dance hall where many stars of the day performed including The Beatles, Joe Brown and Lulu. When it first opened only soft drinks and snacks were available at the 'bar'. The Waterfall Pub on Waterfall Lane is regularly included in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide. Sporting Facilities Old Hill Cricket Club's ground is found next to Haden Hill Park. Haden Hill Leisure Centre offers a range of sporting facilities including a gym, swimming pools and squash courts. Old Hill Wanderers F.C. was an association football club active in the 1890s. Housing In 1945 prefabs were built in Cherry Orchard and Spring Meadow to house young families. Although meant to be temporary they were much loved family homes for twenty years or more, until replaced by more modern housing. The Riddins Mound council estate was built near the Halesowen Road railway overbridge in the 1960s. The estate provided 547 homes, 288 of which were in three 16-storey tower blocks, with the remainder spread across seven three-storey blocks of flats, nine maisonette blocks and four bungalows. However, the estate had fallen into decline by the early 1990s, and in August 1996 one of the tower blocks was demolished in a controlled explosion. The remaining properties have been refurbished and community facilities improved. Notable buildings Haden Hill House, a Victorian gentleman's residence and Haden Old Hall are set in a municipal park to the south of the town centre. Both are in the ownership of Sandwell