Image source, Black Country Living Museum Image caption,

The recreated high street features favourites from Dudley and the wider West Midlands

By David Sillito

Arts correspondent

A museum has recreated a 1960s high street, complete with recognisable shops which have since closed down.

The Black Country Living Museum has been influenced by places in Dudley, where it is based, and nearby areas.

Visitors can pop into Burgin's newsagents, butchers Marsh and Baxter and Stanton's Music Shop, among others.

The exhibition was inspired by real life stories and will feature actors playing real characters, including shop keeper Cynthia Burgin.

She ran her family's newsagents on Wolverhampton Street for 56 years.

Image source, Cynthia Burgin Image caption,

Cynthia Burgin, pictured middle, ran her family's shop for more than 50 years

"I came here in 1959 aged 29 and retired aged 85," she said.

"Wolverhampton Street was an extremely busy area where the trolley bus used to come along from Wolverhampton into Dudley.