A town grew in the nineteenth century around the nut, bolt and gun lock manufacturing and coal mining industries. However virtually all of the town's industries experienced closed per prevent of the Eighties & the town is today a ghost town, by having an increasing high level of unemployment.

Numbers of Victorian terraced houses were demolished in a period of a 2nd half of the 20th century, & the Urban District Council of Darlaston built hundreds to thousands of houses & flats to replenish the babies by using. Since 1966, Darlaston has been section of the Walsall borough & is currently in the WS10 postal territory which too involved neighboring Wednesbury.

Bentley Old Hall sub a northward of Darlaston until the early 20th century. Its evidence were redeveloped as a housing estate in the Fifties.

Mining subsidence, which has taken its toll around several buildings through central England, has besides manufactured its mark in Darlaston. Around 1999, the council home on the Future Moxley housing estate collapsed down the obsolete mineshaft when its resident get on holiday. A neighboring home too got to exist as knocked down. Since so, a council owned housing index inside Darlaston has broken out of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council & is okay, restricted by Darlaston Housing Trust. Within 2001, 2 of the town's quartet multi-storey jams of flats were demolished, & a left over deuce followed lawsuit inside 2004. Occasionally of the town's council owned moo rise homes own already been flattened by dozer, mostly because of subsidence, when numerous other come required to exist as cleared.

A jock Mark Lewis-Francis was born at Darlaston inside 1981.

Mark Rhodes, runner-second best around ITV's Pop Idol 2003 contest, is too from either Darlaston.

Each Mark Lewis-Francis & Mark Rhodes were pupils at Darlaston Comprehensive School.