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A History of the County of Stafford
… as standing at the junction with what is now Brasshouse Lane. 5 The later Blue Gates hotel on the opposite side of … a toll-gate at the junction of the main road with Holly Lane and Roebuck Lane in the early 19th century: what was probably an inn …
A History of the County of Stafford
… standing on the waste, apparently on the corner of Holly Lane and the Birmingham-Dudley road, was leased out by the … or waste, c. 1 a. in extent and taken from Ruck of Stones Lane (now Lewisham Road), to Luke Pope, a Smethwick … by the beginning of the 18th century. In 1702 Charles Lane authorized the payment of £10 10 s. to the lord of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1885 by a new board school for infants in Crockett's Lane. 97 Smethwick National School or North Harborne Parish … Smethwick post office stands on the site. 3 Crockett's Lane British School. A British school for boys and girls was … opened c. 1840 in newly built schoolrooms in Crockett's Lane behind the Congregational chapel. It still existed in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1830s as Bluegate Stream) that rises to the south of Holly Lane flows through Smethwick Hall Park, part of the grounds … it is then culverted through the lower ground by Stony Lane and discharges into the Birmingham Canal and Hockley … French and Belgians whom R. L. Chance brought to the Spon Lane glass-works in 1832 provide an early example of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… representing six wards: Bearwood, Sandwell, Soho, Spon Lane, Uplands, and Victoria. 47 Smethwick put forward a … in 1927-8. 57 The court-house on the corner of Crockett's Lane and Piddock Street was built in 1931. 58 The insignia of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… north side of the canal between Soho Foundry and Rabone Lane were still undeveloped. 5 In 1842 the works passed to G. … estate, consisting of 65 a. on the west side of Holly Lane between Oldbury Road and the Halesowen boundary, passed … the farmhouse at the corner of Oldbury Road and Holly Lane, was bought by Thomas Downing and his brother George; …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 65 The Sandwell Gospel Hall above the canal off Brasshouse Lane was registered for the Plymouth Brethren in 1930. It was … road in the Cape Hill area by members of the Carrs Lane Congregational church in Birmingham. In 1813 the … as a Sunday school, was built on the corner of Crockett's Lane in 1823-4 and registered as an Independent place of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1843 was to inspect the state of workers' houses. The Spon Lane area, Rolfe Street, Cross Street, and Windmill Street (presumably Windmill Lane) were described in 1854 as particularly insanitary. … and badly ventilated. In 1862 twelve houses in Slough Lane (now Wellington Street) had only two privies between …
A History of the County of Stafford
… held at the Institute for Overseas Peoples in Brasshouse Lane in 1957. 22 In 1961 the Sikh community bought the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Red Cow and the Sow and Pigs. 33 A wooden theatre in Grove Lane, visited by itinerant companies of actors, was converted … theatre which about then stood at one end of Windmill Lane. 34 The Theatre Royal in Rolfe Street, built to the … at the reopened Princes and the Beacon, Brasshouse Lane, Indian and Pakistani films were shown. A subscription …