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A History of the County of Stafford
… by the transfer of Warley Woods from the urban district of Oldbury (Worcs.). 6 The present article is concerned …
A History of the County of Stafford
… road in 1877. 36 There was also a Smethwich pound in Oldbury Road, a smithy being built on the site of it c. 1878. … in 1920 for the extension of its boundary to include Oldbury urban district (Worcs.); shortage of space at that time was forcing the council to acquire land in Oldbury for housing. 48 The proposal achieved partial success …
A History of the County of Stafford
… consisting of 65 a. on the west side of Holly Lane between Oldbury Road and the Halesowen boundary, passed to Sir … the farm, 30 a. surrounding the farmhouse at the corner of Oldbury Road and Holly Lane, was bought by Thomas Downing and … a firm of ironmasters with works in West Bromwich and Oldbury. Dawes, who was one of the founders of the Birmingham …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Bromwich started regular preaching in a private house in Oldbury Road. Numbers grew, and the house of Joseph Vernon, … West in West Smethwick by members of the Smethwick and Oldbury churches, apparently by the 1860s. A church was … care of those two churches. A school-chapel was built in Oldbury Road in 1872-3, and in 1877 average attendance on …
A History of the County of Stafford
… sanitary condition compared favourably with that of Oldbury, West Bromwich, and Bilston and that as far as … site well over half of them within the urban district of Oldbury (Worcs.). Indeed, when the Warley Woods area of Oldbury was added to Smethwick in 1928, housing was quickly …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was opened at Londonderry in a converted stable on the Oldbury side of Queen's Road. In 1932 the owner of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Galton Grounds, a piece of open land behind the Swan in Oldbury Road. 26 By 1908 land adjoining the Moilliet Arms at … from 1906 to 1949 the proprietors of the Weekly News, an Oldbury newspaper, published a Smethwick edition entitled …
A History of the County of Stafford
… World Wars, however, the area, like the adjoining part of Oldbury which was added to Smethwick in 1928, was used for … were houses along the Birmingham-Dudley road (the present Oldbury Road) and several small farms, some of which survived … the north side of the main road, between Spon Lane and the Oldbury boundary, and in 1810 was 35 a. in extent. 86 Holt …
Alumni Oxonienses
… 10 Oct., 1701, aged 17, B.A. 1705, M.A. 1709; rector of Oldbury, Salop, 1728. See Foster's Index Eccl. Stackhouse, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Arely wood, Ashton heath, Ashwood heath, near Kinver, at Oldbury, near Shareshill, and in Tiddesley park. Near Maer …