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A History of the County of Stafford
… to 366, less than one per cent of those employed in the county borough, 79 and by 1966 only 90 people were employed … streets. The Walsall Improvement and Market Amendment Act of 1850 allowed the sale of cattle at the Bridge and in … Tettenhall. 67 The lease passed to his son W. F. Fryer in 1846. Two furnaces were built apparently in the early 1850s. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… that the position improved. 56 In 1903 Walsall, as a county borough, took responsibility for all stages of public … the 1893 Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 61 the board began to pay for children to attend the … schoolroom were added. A teacher's house was built in 1846. 99 In 1857 the basic weekly fee was 2 d. for boys and …
A History of the County of Stafford
… A new borough of Walsall was created in 1835. It became a county borough in 1889 and part of a new metropolitan borough … Walsall 'ranks as the second manufacturing town in the county, as regards its population, and yields to none of them … a. in Census, 1891, 1901. Census, 1931; Walsall Corp. Act, 1930, 20 & 21 Geo. V, c. 170 (Local). Census, 1931. …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 62 in the earlier 14th century their twice-yearly courts leet 63 were probably held jointly. 64 There were … two surveyors for the borough township under the Highway Act of 1835, appointed a salaried assistant surveyor in 1838 … the manor were safeguarded, while the jurisdiction of the county justices was preserved in cases of felony. The main …
A History of the County of Stafford
… 83; 1555-7, 449. C 142/124 no. 176; G. Ormerod, Hist. of County Palatine and City of Chester (1882 edn.), iii. 379. Ormerod, County Palatine and City of Chester, iii. 378-80. Ibid. 380; … iii, p. 198; Cal. Close, 1500-9, p. 343. E 150/1018 no. 1; Act of Restitution of John Dudley, 3 Hen. VIII, c. 19. In …
A History of the County of Stafford
… was succeeded by his son Thomas Vernon Dolphin. Under an Act of 1795 Thomas sold the tithes in thirty-two lots; those … abstract of title of T. V. Dolphin to tithes of Walsall. Act for vesting the settled estates of John Dolphin in trustees, 35 Geo. III, c. 52 (Priv. Act); S.R.O., D. 1041; Walsall Council House, Bescot deeds, …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a parliamentary borough returning one member by the Reform Act of 1832. Walsall Wood and Shelfield were excluded from … Topog. Dict. Eng. (1835), v, plate lxxxiii. The Boundary Act, 1868, 31 & 32 Vic. c. 46, first sched.; above p. 217. … Walsall, 157; N. McCord, The Anti-Corn Law League 1838-1846, 83, 85-6, 88-9, 95. Staffs. Advertiser, 24 and 31 July …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in a room attached to the Green Man in Dudley Street. In 1846 they began work on Ebenezer, a brick chapel on the … minister at Wolverhampton 1658-60, was presented at the county quarter sessions with seven inhabitants of Walsall for …
A History of the County of Stafford
… of the foreign was to appoint two warders, one to act at Great Bloxwich and the other wherever the constable … in accumulation of filth and stagnant water in the courts and alleys. Such public sewers as there were … in 1627 the new corporation tried to secure exemption from county rates for the maintenance of bridges, having twelve of …
A History of the County of Stafford
… in High Street by 1913. 83 There were 6 cinemas in the county borough by 1925 and 9 by 1939; by 1962 only 5 … dissolved in 1903. 2 Walsall adopted the Free Libraries Act in 1857, and a library building was opened in Goodall … were 12 lodges and one juvenile branch of Odd Fellows, 8 courts and one juvenile society of the Ancient Order of …