Piccadilly was built in 1904 to house miners who worked at the nearby Kingsbury Colliery, and the village was built on land belonging to the mine. It consisted of two rows of three-storey houses along one main street. Piccadilly earned its name from Piccadilly in London, which was the home of Colonel Dibley, one of the village's founders. Dibley asked the miners what they would like to call their new village, but when nobody could think of an appropriate name, he chose Piccadilly. In 1908 a clubhouse was built. It had been turned into a pub named The Jewel in the Crown but this has now been demolished and social housing built. The village remained much the same until 1947 when prefabricated housing was built to house more mineworkers. These were demolished in the early 1960s after which the local authority of the time, Tamworth Rural District Council, used the land to build council houses. These remain to the present day. The mine was closed in 1968 and is now the Kingsbury link Business park.
In 2009 a memorial wall was built containing the names of all the miners who worked at Kingsbury Colliery and Dexter Colliery. In the center of the wall there is a miner's lamp that is always lit to commemorate those who have died and those who remember working down the mines.
Demographics
According to the 2001 Census the population of the Hurley and Wood End ward was 3,642. Over 99.5% of people describe themselves as White British with only 89 people from other ethnic groups. The most common distance travelled to work is, which is essentially to Tamworth, with the most common form of employment being manufacturing. The Ward almost has an almost exact 50:50 split of males and females, with a ratio of 1,822 to 1,820 respectively. According to Kingsbury Parish Council there are 142 houses in the village.
In 2009 there was an average of 3.6 crimes per 1,000 people for the ward of Hurley and Wood End, and during the same period there were 5 crimes per head for the borough of North Warwickshire. In 2010 the figure was down to 3 crimes per head. The most common type of crime is anti-social behaviour.
Recreation
The village has a large cricket field and play area. The nearest village hall is in Wood End
The village uses a Birmingham Postcode unlike Wood End which uses a Coventry post code, The postal town is Tamworth which makes it often written as being part of Staffordshire despite being in Warwickshire. Water and sewage services are provided by Severn Trent Water. The nearest Warwickshire Police and Warwickshire Fire and Rescue stations are in Atherstone.
The village lies next to the M42 motorway, with the nearest exit being at Junction 10. The village has a bus stop on Trinity Road which is served by Route 118, which connects Piccadilly to Kingsbury and Tamworth. A new shelter was provided by Kingsbury Parish Council in November 2007. The nearest railway station is at Wilnecote. But Water Orton and Coleshill Parkway are also a short distance away from the village. The nearest airport is Birmingham International, which is away.
