Walsall is the administrative headquarters of the Walsall Metropolitan Borough.
Walsall still manufactures the Queen's handbags, and Walsall leather products have been found as far afield as Italy, which prompted some embarrassment when a husband gave one to his wife as a present after a business trip, when she realised she immediately assumed that the handbag had been bought when the husband returned.
Walsall Leather Museum is one of its key attractions, as is the Walsall Art Gallery, rebuilt in the year 2000.
The Metropolitan borough of Walsall is a metropolitan borough of the county of West Midlands, England.
The current boundaries of the borough were set in April 1, 1974, when the Local Government Act 1972 came into force.
The former county borough of Walsall took in Aldridge-Brownhills urban district from Staffordshire and became a metropolitan district of the West Midlands.
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