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A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall Social life SOCIAL LIFE. By 1612 a wake was held at Walsall late in September. 50 It may thus have originated in … taken place on temporary sites. 58 A traditional custom at Walsall was the throwing of apples, nuts, and hot copper …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Walsall The growth of the town THE GROWTH OF THE TOWN. The … The settlement, in existence by the mid 12th century when Walsall is first mentioned, was presumably on the top of the … 50 and Digbeth, so named by 1583, 51 to the bridge over Walsall Brook, in existence c. 1300. 52 There was a mill to …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… for edgetools, and some corn-mills. A branch of the Walsall and Birmingham canal extends to the western extremity …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Mission Room c. 1892-3; 22 and the Mission Hall at the Walsall Street schools c. 1910, continuing until the 1920s. … the east window had been used by Goodwin at St. Matthew's, Walsall. 26 The church was badly damaged by mining subsidence … church at Hill Top was given in 1840 by Joseph Hateley of Walsall, and the church of ST. JAMES there was licensed in …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Road, and West Bromwich Street. 62 The road from Lyndon to Walsall via Stone Cross and Tame Bridge was in use by the … is modern. Tame Bridge, which carries the road to Walsall over the Tame, probably existed by the later 15th century: by will proved in 1452 Thomas Mollesley of Walsall left 10 marks for building a 'new bridge of Tame'. 95 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the church, was probably bounded by what are now Walsall Road, Marsh Lane, and Heath Lane. It occurs as … field occurs as an alternative name in 1610 and 1709 and Walsall Lane field in the 1780s. 49 Another field lay north … formed part of it, it was probably bounded by the present Walsall Road, Charlemont Road to about Bird End, and, in the …
A History of the County of Stafford
… replaced by new schools for boys and infants on a site in Walsall Street given by Lord Dartmouth. He also gave the site … 97; P. Liddle, 'Development of Elementary Education in Walsall between 1862 and 1902' (London Univ. M.A. (Educ.) …
A History of the County of Stafford
… buildings form part of Hallam Hospital. 92 In 1872 the Walsall and West Bromwich poor-law unions opened the Walsall and West Bromwich District Schools for pauper … Smethwick, Oldbury, Rowley Regis, Coseley, Bilston, Walsall, and Aldridge; parts were transferred to Birmingham …
A History of the County of Stafford
… rent. 74 It then descended with the manor of Shelfield in Walsall until 1583. 75 In 1556 it consisted of 2 cottages, 24 … in 1772 it was settled on Roger Holmes, town clerk of Walsall, on his marriage to Susannah. 93 Holmes died in 1778, … and land at Finchpath to his chantry founded in 1390 in Walsall church, which still held it at the suppression. 33 In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… the roof had become dangerous. A new church was opened in Walsall Street later the same year. 13 Congregationalists, … presumably Presbyterian centres. 17 Hilton, who lived at Walsall, was minister of the Presbyterian congregation in … West Bromwich congregation was served from Birmingham and Walsall and also by an itinerant minister. In 1722, however, …