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A History of the County of Stafford
… ecclesiastically one of the worst provided places in the Black Country, with accommodation for less than a ninth of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… what are now Vicarage Road and Church Lane to Black Lake and continued either along Bilhay Lane, Claypit …
A History of the County of Stafford
… and truckmasters whose increasing influence over the Black Country metal trades was arousing bitter complaint at … one of the principal nail-manufacturing parishes in the Black Country. The trade was controlled by the 'nail … 450 tons of iron a year in nail-making; only three other Black Country firms operated on a larger scale. Jesson and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… one of the best records of school attendance among the Black Country boroughs. 81 Between 1882 and 1886 the board … attendance of 127. 25 From 1878 until the opening of Black Lake Board School in 1885 the premises were leased to … named the Bagnalls' school as one of those in the Black Country which deservedly had 'the highest reputation …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 'of a large pile of irregular half-timbered building, black and white, and surrounded with numerous out-houses and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… conveyed land at Finchpath, including a croft called Black Lake, to Henry Jesson. 22 John Jesson of West Bromwich, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… Five Ways, the area around the junction of Swan Lane and Black Lake where five roads meet, and was presumably on or … 47. A. G. Cumberland, 'Protestant Nonconformity in the Black Country 1662-1851' (Birmingham Univ. M.A. thesis, … And see A. G. Cumberland, 'Protestant Nonconformity in the Black Country 1662-1851' (Birmingham Univ. M.A. thesis, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… undertaking in 1898; a generating station was built at Black Lake, and the supply began in 1901. 92 In 1928 the Black Lake station was transferred to the West Midlands Joint … rest of this para. and the following para. see J. S. Webb, Black Country Tramways, i (Bloxwich, priv. print. 1974), 1-3, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… unknown, for registration was generally unpopular in the Black Country and those which registered represented only a …
A History of the County of Stafford
… area called Finchpath originally extended as far south as Black Lake (Nether Finchpath) and west to Harvills Oak, 15 … hollow-ware business there; he lived at Five Ways House, Black Lake. 24 The development of the area south and east of Hill Top dates mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. Black Lake to the south was the name of a plot of land by the …