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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… and some corn-mills. A branch of the Walsall and Birmingham canal extends to the western extremity of the … from it is the Bescotbridge station of the Liverpool and Birmingham railway, which passes through the parish. The … cost 500, and was the gift of Benjamin Wright, Esq., of Birmingham. Two new ecclesiastical parishes have been formed …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Holyhead-London road. Local traffic to Wolverhampton and Birmingham benefited. 93 From c. 1817 a new road from … it was joined at Wappenshall by the Newport branch of the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal, which thus connected … line was opened jointly by the Shrewsbury & Birmingham Railway Co. (later G.W.R.) and the Shropshire …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… areas of south and east Shropshire and to the butchers of Birmingham and the Black Country, 42 and in 1890 Wellington … ceased before 1891. 28 In 1916 Johnson Bros., of Birmingham, bought the former Central Hall, New Street, 29 …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… therefore administered by both the county council and the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board until 1950, when the … Slaney, Health of Towns Commission: Rep. on the State of Birmingham and other large Towns (1845), 27 (copy in S.P.L.). …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… it was designed in the Gothic style by Ingall & Sons of Birmingham. 19 In 1920 20 the Baptists closed their King …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… to the county council, 14 which still used it in 1947. 15 Birmingham Regional Hospital Board sold it in 1951. 16 Under …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 1900 acres. The Crick and Welton station on the London and Birmingham railway is distant two miles: the Grand Junction …
Old and New London
… the centre of the nave stood a trophy of small arms by the Birmingham gunmakers, flanked on either side by an Armstrong …
A History of the County of Stafford
… designed in a Romanesque style by Harvey & Wicks of Birmingham, 49 is of brick faced with stone on the exterior. … of THE ANNUNCIATION. Hamstead has been in the diocese of Birmingham since 1905. Hamstead was originally in Handsworth … Walsall Road (in that part of Hamstead now in the city of Birmingham). St. Paul's became a parish church in 1894 and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… West Bromwich is crossed by the ancient highway from Birmingham to Wolverhampton. By the beginning of the 16th … early one. It was mentioned as the road from Finchpath to Birmingham in the earlier 14th century, 42 and the bridge at … quantities of ironware and coal taken from Wednesbury to Birmingham. 46 Both the main roads were turnpiked in 1727, 47 …