Zoar Street leads upwards from Gornal Wood into Temple Street, it has a mixture of shops, dwellings and other premises including Redhall School.
A few relatively modern shops remain today at the lower end of the street, and there are still many older terraced houses on the upper part.

The street takes its name from the nearby Zoar chapel.

The Harris family homebrew business was established in 1976, and the landmark sign signals your approach to Gornal Village, the shop now spreads across several properties, and caters for a long established tradition in Gornal for home brewing.

The building in the foreground, was purpose built for the Dudley Co-operative Society at a cost £2400 to design and build and was the Societies thirteenth branch and the first to have a proper drapery de[artment.
The foundation stone was laid in May 1900 and it was opened on the 2nd of March, 1901.
The Co-op building was said to be the first store with a drapery department, it then comprised of the two shops, a managers house, offices and a meeting hall - perhaps the hall and offices were part of the upper storey which has since been removed,
The buildings and shop frontage extended around the corner into Redhall Road, the outline of bricked up windows and on the left, what would have been the entrance to the yard for the carts and later 'floats' which would have delivered milk around the district.

The Dudley Co-operative store existed in Gornal before the new Zoar Street branch, the old premises is listed in Kelly's Trade Directory for 1896 with Richard Emmings as Branch Manager, and in the 1892 directory Dudley Co-op address was 13 Church Street, the Co-op also probably occupied what was later to become the carpet shop on the opposite side of the street, Emmings was still listed as the Co-op manager in 1904 & 1912.

Subsequently, Dudley Library opened a branch in Gornal using the premises occupying the corner plot, the Co-op continued to use the lower shop for a short while.
Lower Gornal Library moved to a new purpose built building in Abbey Street in the early 1980s, shortly after the Co-op closed.
A modern Co-operative food store has been established on Dibdale Road West.
The last of the Dudley Co-operative branches was opened in The Parade, Kent Street, Upper Gornal on the 15th February, 1971.

The following businesses were trading in Zoar Street in 1911 [Census] & 1912 [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were among those trading in Zoar Street in 1916 [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were among those trading in Zoar Street in 1921 [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were among those trading in Zoar Street in 1924 [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were among those trading in Zoar Street in 1928. [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were among those trading in Zoar Street in 1936. [Kelly's Trade Directory]

The following businesses were trading in Zoar Street in 1940 [Kelly's Trade Directory]

Shops trading in the 1950s-1960s...