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A History of the County of Stafford
… Although amalgamation did not take place the report's proposals were adopted by each borough individually. West … and it appears to have closed in that year. 13 St. Michael's Roman Catholic School. A charity school in connexion with … It was intended primarily for the education of the firm's workers and their children but was also open to outsiders. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by the earlier 19th century was either the Bull's Head or the Swan. 22 The officers appointed by the court … claimed as manorial lords. At that time Brome Whorwood's steward erected brick-kilns on the waste near Sandwell Gate … waste it stood, but for the plaintiff, who was Clarke's tenant in the same property, it was argued that Sandwell …
A History of the County of Stafford
… barony was divided between his sisters in 1323, one knight's fee in West Bromwich being assigned to his younger sister … that Edward, Lord Dudley, consented to Cardinal Wolsey's dissolution of the priory in 1525. 35 It was presumably in … wife of Richard de Marnham of Bromwich. 49 By 1293 Sarah's half share had passed to her son Walter Devereux, who held …
A History of the County of Stafford
… End. The estate was then divided: the house passed to Lowe's sister Sarah on condition that she continued to live there, … went to his brother Alexander. 82 In 1772, after Alexander's death, the farms also passed to Sarah. 83 She died in 1774, … and between at least 1833 and 1841 it was let. 89 Dawes's son Henry was living at Charlemont by 1845, and father and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in the school for a short time and then met at Prince's Assembly Rooms on the corner of High Street and Lombard … The Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance registered the People's Hall in High Street in 1936 and Ruskin Hall in Lombard Street instead in 1937; the People's Hall was registered again in 1939. 14 In 1945 the Alliance …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Main Drainage Authority in 1966. 27 In 1958 the council's first smoke control order came into force. 28 Progress in … and over the next ten years some 15 per cent of the town's population was rehoused. 33 The corporation has built … dwellings, including multi-storey flats and old people's flatlets. 36 Of the springs which supplied West Bromwich …
A History of the County of Stafford
… daughters were 'notable recusants' and that Sir William's association with recusants led to his 'neither caring for … and their son Thomas was brought up in his mother's religion. 62 The Riders, however, were the main Roman … used as a chapel; there is also said to have been a priest's hiding hole, but it seems likely that the space was in fact …
A History of the County of Stafford
… wake, called the Gooseberry Wake and held at Cutler's End on the first Sunday in August, existed in the early … were usually on the outskirts of the parish. 98 Martin's Act of 1822, 99 intended to suppress the pastime, was … dealer, established the first public hall, St. George's Hall in Paradise Street, in 1859 in a building which had …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the present Lyndon Street and extended southeast to Mayer's Green. 63 East of the village there was a road running from the church to Mayer's Green via the present Church Vale (formerly Sot's Hole) and Dagger Lane. 64 At the north end of Dagger Lane …