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A History of the County of Stafford
… and 3 bordars and a fourth team in demesne. The value, 40 s., was the same as it had been in 1066. 40 During the Middle … being grown in 1776. Some farms were being let at from 15 s. to 25 s. an acre. Pasture in the fields, in the meadows by … zenith in the 1880s and 1890s. 72 The mission church of St. Michael and All Angels, opened in Bull Lane in 1881, was …
A History of the County of Stafford
… West Bromwich Education EDUCATION. There was a school in West Bromwich by 1686, apparently a private … Although amalgamation did not take place the report's proposals were adopted by each borough individually. West … after 1850, and it appears to have closed in that year. 13 St. Michael's Roman Catholic School. A charity school in …
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 … 75 The building was a former nail warehouse in the present St. Clement's Lane. 76 An extension was agreed to in 1768, …
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 … been acquired by the Skeffington family of Fisherwick (in St. Michael's, Lichfield), who had owned other property in … 73 It was a lunatic asylum from 1897 to 1906, then a school for mental defectives, 74 and in the 1920s a boys' …
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, … abbey. 34 Parts of the estate were acquired by Sir Horace St. Paul in the mid 19th century 35 and by West Bromwich … the William Howell who was keeping a boys' boarding school there by the 1760s. 49 Samuel was apparently living at …
A History of the County of Stafford
… off by Mrs. Benjamin Cutler. There was already a Sunday school before the building of the chapel. The congregation at … in the school for a short time and then met at Prince's Assembly Rooms on the corner of High Street and Lombard … in 1969 to Grant Hall at the corner of Taylor's Lane and St. Clement's Lane as a temporary measure, and in 1972 the …
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 … Dartmouth Square and from Oldbury along Bromford Lane to St. Michael Street were opened by Birmingham and Midland …
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 … 77 The church was opened in 1832. 78 It was dedicated to St. Michael and the Holy Angels and stood in St. Michael … 500 people heard mass at St. Michael's. 83 There was a school in St. Michael Street by 1834. 84 From c. 1850 there …
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 … Adams, a music dealer, established the first public hall, St. George's Hall in Paradise Street, in 1859 in a building … which had formerly been a Wesleyan chapel and then a school. The remodelled interior provided a much-needed room …
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 … dates from 1859. 85 Development continued; thus when St. Michael's mission church was opened in Bull Lane in 1881, … and an old people's home; the parish church and the school were rebuilt. The first phase of the scheme won a …