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A History of the County of Stafford
… forks from the main road at Carter's Green and runs to Wednesbury and Wolverhampton was also an early one. It was … is a reference to the 'hollow way' down Finchpath Hill to Wednesbury Bridge; 44 it may have been cut to facilitate the … of coal south from the area. 45 By the 1720s the road from Wednesbury to Carter's Green was in a dangerous state because …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the parish seems originally to have belonged to Wednesbury manor: in 1595 William Comberford, lord of Wednesbury, sold it to Walter Stanley, lord of West Bromwich. … mills that had been settled on William and his wife with Wednesbury manor in 1567. 67 In 1625 William Stanley leased …
A History of the County of Stafford
… took many children from outside the borough, chiefly from Wednesbury, Tipton, and Bilston, but by the early 1930s … School and two other colleges in the enlarged borough, the Wednesbury colleges of Commerce and Technology, to form the … 9 Nov. 1895 to 7 Oct. 1896, 270, 271; West Bromwich News & Wednesbury Times, 9 Jan. 1969. Free Press, 8 May 1882. Ibid. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in 1836, from the Staffordshire parishes of West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Handsworth and from Oldbury, Warley Salop, … (Worcs.). 87 The parish workhouses at West Bromwich and Wednesbury were retained and enlarged; the West Bromwich … West Bromwich was extended to include most of Tipton and Wednesbury with parts of Birmingham, Smethwick, Oldbury, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… let; the last occupants were Thomas Jones, town clerk of Wednesbury 1897-1921, and his widow. 94 The house was … He was succeeded between 1728 and 1732 by his son John, a Wednesbury baker, whose son, another John, held the property … the suppression, 38 and a chantry of St. Mary's guild in Wednesbury church also held land and rents there. 39 Reeves, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of 1867 it was transferred to the parliamentary borough of Wednesbury. 4 Under the Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Hewitt. 8 He was a shoemaker who came to Hill Top from Wednesbury in 1891. At first the mission consisted of cottage … Sheldon on Holloway Bank. In 1744 the society divided, the Wednesbury members moving to High Bullen and the West … Heath Society Class. At first the members had attended the Wednesbury meeting and also West Bromwich church. They now …
A History of the County of Stafford
… had three stations, in Paradise Street and in Tipton and Wednesbury, with its headquarters in Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. … this. Birmingham retained the Swan Village works to supply Wednesbury and other outlying districts, and West Bromwich … in 1883 it started a service through West Bromwich and Wednesbury to Darlaston, with a line to Great Bridge in 1884 …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Street. 94 In 1875, inspired by the example of the Wednesbury board of health, the improvement commissioners … and probably dated from 1863. No more is known of it. The Wednesbury Advertiser, founded in 1859, had by 1868 become the Wednesbury and West Bromwich Advertiser; but it was always …
A History of the County of Stafford
… south-east of the junction of the roads from Tipton and Wednesbury existed by 1723 when the Cross Guns inn there is … to the north of Friar Park was built in the 1930s by Wednesbury borough council on part of the land acquired from … on the West Bromwich bank of the Tame by the bridge into Wednesbury, 10 but the settlement apparently existed much …