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A History of the County of Shropshire
… in Little Wenlock) 84 and on Watling Street from the Swan eastwards to Ketleysands. 85 Wellington's district under … Improvement Act of 1854 included the settlement round the Swan; in 1903 the U.D. absorbed Bennetts Bank farther east, …
Old and New London
… with tea-gardens attached; there still (1866) remains the 'Swan,' with its bowling-green." At the commencement of the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… town—from Roebuck Lane to Hill Top and to the gas-works in Swan Village—was taken over from the turnpike trustees by the … Bull Lane, Albion Road, and West Bromwich Street or along Swan Lane, Phoenix Street, Ryders Green Road, Oldbury Road, … it was turnpiked in 1804 as part of the road from the Swan in West Bromwich to Sutton Coldfield, but there is no …
A History of the County of Stafford
… mill stood on the north side of what is now known as Swan Pool, about half a mile north of Sandwell priory. It was … by more recently established firms: 70 James Roberts of Swan Village ( c. 1824), Wathew & Siddons of Hateley Heath … of that specialization, he had moved to a larger site in Swan Village. By 1845 Johnson & Cranage, iron- and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… infants' school. Black Lake Junior and Infants' School, Swan Lane, was opened in 1885 as a mixed and infants' board … institute was formed in 1829 by the manager of the Swan Village gas-works but was apparently short-lived. 97 In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the earlier 19th century was either the Bull's Head or the Swan. 22 The officers appointed by the court from at least … but occasionally parishioners' houses, including the Swan, were used; in the later 1780s a vestry room was built …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Road is dated 1856. A chapel was built in Victoria Street, Swan Village, in 1831 and was replaced in 1865 by the present … branch of John Smith Ltd. The chapels at Lyndon, Hill Top, Swan Village, Greets Green, and Spon Lane made returns at the … Wesley circuit and renamed in 1883) 68 were Hill Top and Swan Village. Smethwick circuit (formed out of West Bromwich …
A History of the County of Stafford
… chiefly in Barton Street (in the former Old End area) and Swan Village. The pace quickened thereafter; yet, when a new … Act. 86 In the same year the company opened its works at Swan Village, then the largest gas-works in the kingdom. 87 … Birmingham the right to do this. Birmingham retained the Swan Village works to supply Wednesbury and other outlying …
A History of the County of Stafford
… library in West Bromwich; the books were kept at the Swan inn. 29 In the late 1820s William Salter, a New Street …
A History of the County of Stafford
… finished in 1946, and the estate was completed in 1948. 47 Swan Village to the south, the area around the junction of Swan Lane, Phoenix Street, and the Tipton road, takes its name from the Swan inn. The inn occurs in 1655 when it was held by Richard …