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A History of the County of Stafford
… the areas in which animals were raised for the expanding Birmingham market. Land in the parish was being leased to … but they remained at the mill, which was situated on the Birmingham Canal conveniently for the transport of the … for many years as Dunkirk Forge. 45 The new line of the Birmingham Canal was carried across the southern part of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the elements as an aid to Bible reading. The first outside Birmingham was that started at Ebenezer in 1870. 14 In the … literary and scientific institute. The model was to be the Birmingham and Midland Institute and the chief object the … (West Bromwich, 1906), 20 (copy in W.B.L.); A. S. Langley, Birmingham Baptists Past and Present, 211; Kelly's Dir. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the early 1780s it agreed to subscribe to the newly built Birmingham General Hospital so that paupers could be sent … building at Wigmore designed by S. E. Bindley of Birmingham. It was closed in 1935. 93 Improvement … to include most of Tipton and Wednesbury with parts of Birmingham, Smethwick, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Coseley, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1,599 a. 88 Sir Richard, a member of a prominent family of Birmingham merchants, was solicitorgeneral from 1625 until … D.N.B. (misquoting Clarendon); C. Gill, Hist. of Birmingham, i. 43-4; G. E. Aylmer, The King's Servants: the … Calvert, Picturesque Views. . . in Staffs. and Shropshire (Birmingham, 1830), i. 66. Wood, Plan of West Bromwich (1837); …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and in 1768 many were used to make lock-gates for the Birmingham Canal, which was then being built through West … in W.S.L.). Reeves, West Bromwich, 55-6. Aris's Birmingham Gaz. 9 Feb. 1767. S.R.O., D. 742/Dartmouth … Bromwich. B.R.L. 608107, Plan of Turnpike Road from Birmingham to Wednesbury, Dudley and Bilston 1771; Yates, Map …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in High Street in 1886-7. Designed by Ingall & Sons of Birmingham in a mixed Gothic style, it was of brick with Bath … opened in High Street; the architect was Joseph Cutts of Birmingham. The old chapel was opened as a Sunday school in … century the West Bromwich congregation was served from Birmingham and Walsall and also by an itinerant minister. In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… built in 1869-71 to the design of Martin & Chamberlain of Birmingham. It originated in the Provident Medical Dispensary … with stone dressings, were designed by Edward Holmes of Birmingham in an early-Gothic style. 59 The crematorium in … carrying fire uncovered in the street. 74 By c. 1837 the Birmingham Fire Office Co. had a manual fire-engine at West …
A History of the County of Stafford
… by Dunn & Hansom of Newcastle-uponTyne, the church is of Birmingham brick with Bath stone dressings. 87 It consists of … 1968; plans at Archbishop's House, St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham; inf. from Mr. G. C. W. Jones of West Bromwich …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 1895, and rebuilt in 1896 to the designs of Owen & Ward of Birmingham. 14 It closed c. 1940. 15 Bennett's Theatre, Queen … the present ground in Sandwell Park. The club plays in the Birmingham and District Cricket League. 55 There is a West … moved to its present home, the Hawthorns, at the corner of Birmingham Road and Halford's Lane. In 1803 there were 10 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… from Lyndon to what became the High Street stretch of the Birmingham-Wolverhampton road. There was no immediate rush to … of the south-west corner of the park down to the Birmingham road both for middleclass houses and for … Group. 88 By 1970, when the stretch of the ring road from Birmingham Road to Carter's Green was begun, there had been …