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A History of the County of Warwick
… about 1826. 16 When William Ullathorne (later Bishop of Birmingham and a titular archbishop) was put in charge of the … than any other Catholic church in Warwickshire apart from Birmingham; congregations of 900-1,000 were reported in 1851. … the leading Roman Catholic centre in Warwickshire outside Birmingham. 33 Only about 720, however, attended mass on a …
A History of the County of Warwick
… gravity in the midlands began to shift from Coventry to Birmingham. Coventry remained a significant industrial centre … at that time proved ephemeral. The Coventry Gazette and Birmingham Chronicle, first published in 1757, 28 probably … briefly in 1752 by John Ward, who had a theatre in Birmingham, and whose travelling company was well known in …
A History of the County of Warwick
… year was celebrated by the 'rude people' of Coventry and Birmingham in destroying the property of Roman Catholics and …
A History of the County of Warwick
… land assessed at £1,652 was acquired by the London and Birmingham Railway Company for its new line. 38 In 1844 about … Road Commissioners in 1828-9 and by the London and Birmingham Railway Company in 1834 were used in 1843 to found …
A History of the County of Warwick
… of the city in 1842 the railway line from Coventry to Birmingham, which crosses the area south of Hearsall Common, …
A History of the County of Warwick
… by his will dated 1715, Dr. Christopher Horne, then of Birmingham but earlier resident in Stoke, gave as glebe to …
Report on the Records of the City of Exeter
… Taunton, Coventree, Leeds, Manchester, Coulchester, Birmingham, Lynn, &c., would soone reape the Happy Effects, …
A History of the County of Leicester
… was developed in Leicester long before it was perfected in Birmingham. The Liberals had to fear not apathy but … repeated proposals made by O'Connell to the Chartists of Birmingham: it was here that he suggested abolition of the … with Miall in London and, more closely, with Sturge in Birmingham. A Complete Suffrage Association was founded in …
A History of the County of Leicester
… next appointed Thomas Standbridge, son of a town clerk of Birmingham. Standbridge was a man with no private practice, … government official and had been in the service of the Birmingham corporation. 500 Other departments grew in a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… we work with our heads and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their hands.' 5 In the later 19th … 1860s Elihu Burritt, the United States consular agent in Birmingham and a fervent admirer of Lichfield cathedral, …