MP-NRLF r OK Tin University of California, .■icLLS.sion \< .(o i> 7 ^7 ' .las>s No. ( -■? ^J ( BIRMINGHAM. HISTORY AND GENERAL DIRECTORY OF THE BOROUGH OF BIRMINGHAM, WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE PARISH OF ASTON, THE SOHO AND PART OF HANDSWORTII INCLUDED : BEING OF THE COUNTY OF V/ARWICK. The Ancient and Modern History of this Popnlous Borough AND ITS SUBURBS, Has been compiled with great care and labour, from personal application to all the Public Buildings, Societies, Associations, places of Business, private Residences, and all places of Public Interest, from which much new and useful information has been derived; and Hutton and Shaw, the former Historians of Binningham, fully consulted. The rise and progress of the varied ^Manufactures, and the increase of the Population fully pointed out ; and also the Charities from the Commissioners Report. BY FRANCIS WHITE AND Co., Authors of the History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Nottinghamshire ; Directories of Hull, York, and the East Riding of Yorkshhe; Newcastle, and the principal Towns in the Counties of Durham and Northumberland: every copy of which was sold two months after Publication, PRINTED FOR THE AUTHORS, BY JOHN BLURTON, ROYAL STEAM-PRESS OFFICES, CASTLE STREET AND KING STREET, And Sold by F. White and Co., 54, Ilennitaije Street^ SHEFFIELD. Price to Subscribers, Os. in cloth boards, or 1 Is. in calf binding ; Non-Subs. 25. 6d. extra. 1849. Cp (^ 7 (o PREFACE. In this attempt to present to the Public a History and Topography of the Borough of Binningham, with a complete Directory of the Inhabitants, under two arrangements — first, giving the Sm-names in Alphabetical order, with the Trades and Professions at fiill length, places of Business, and Residences ; second, classified under the Heads of Trades and Professions — the Authors acknowledge their great obligation to the Literary and Official Gentlemen of the Borough, who have so freely furnished them with various sources of information; and also to the numerous Subscribers who have favoured them with their support to so liberal an extent; and hope the present Volume will be foomd the most complete Book of Reference ever published for this populous Borough. The Plan of the Work embraces a General History and Description of the Town and Borough of Birmingham, extracted from the works of ancient and modem Authors ; and fi-om the Parliamentary Reports of Public Charities, Population, &c. ; together with a variety of Statistical, Commercial, and Biograpliical information, elicited by personal inquiry ; with a full and comprehensive view of the rise and progress of those beautiful Manufactures of which Birmingham is the emporium, to which it and the immediate locality owe much of their present wealth and importance. Lists of Magis- trates, Public Officers, Streets, Courts, Places, Squares, Terraces, &c., with an Alpha- betical arrangement of the addresses of the Inhabitants, followed by a Directory classed according to Trades and Professions ; the whole preceded by a Table shevring the re- ciprocal distances of all the Towns from each other, and from London ; and a general Index, which points out the page at which every subject may be instantly found. The present Volume being part of a General History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County of Warwick, which will appear complete in about five months, and will be accompanied with a large coloured sheet Map of the County, prepared expressly for th« Work. E. WHITE & Co. 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H ■^ ^ ** — — r. c/3 llil i!« c 3 3" < d ! c: P - 1 X p ■ 3 li:, h !3' If i I §:t!; o <■♦ r*- c ■I cc o d , '■ J ' w T—^r*^ GENERAL INDEX. Air, (Natural) -2 AliUTinon, .'IJ Al])liabetical Directory, 88 to -289 Amusements, 54 Ancient State. 2. 33 Annual Rental, I Antiquities, 39 Architecture, 36 Art Union, (Roval) 20 Ashted, 7 Assay Oifice, 32, 53 Assemblies, 54 Aston, 71 ; Hall, 72; Union, 75; Directory, 402 Asylum for Children, 28 Athceneum, 20 Athenic Institution, 19 Bailiff, (High and Low) 2 Bankruptcy and Protective Offices, 53 Banks, 39 Barracks, 48 Baskerville John, 34 Baths, (Ladywell and Bal- sall Heath) 55 Battles — Birmingham, 45 ; Camp Hill, 44 Bellows Makers, 28 Birmingham General, Bene- volent, <fec. Institutions, 27 Birmingham History, I ; Dis- tricts, 1 ; Population, 1 ; Parishes. 1 ; Rental, 1 ; State of, 36 Binningham and Midland Counties Lying-in-Hospi- tal, 27 Birmingham Licensed Vic- tuallers' Asylum, 56 Bishop's (Catholic) House,10 Blind Institution, 27 Bordesley, 1, 73 Borough, 1 ; Goal, 38 , Va- luation, 53 Botanical Gardens, 54 Boulton Mr. 31 Boundaries, 1 Breweries, 39, 314 Bridgman John, 72 British and Foreign Bible Society, 28 Bromford, 74 Bromwich, (Little) 72 Buckles. 32 Buildings, 52, 70 Burials, 45 Buttons, 31, 33 Callum's Repository, 60 Canals, 49, 395 Carriers, 398 to 401 Castle Bromwich tt Hall, 72 Cathedral, (Roman Cathie.) 9 Catholic (Roman) Church, 10, 73 Cemeteries — Church of Eng- land, 13; General, 14 Chalybeate Spring, 2 Charities, 61 to 71; Aston, 75 to 78 Charters, 45 Chapels, (Dissenter's) 11 Baptist, 12 Baptist, (General) 12 Calvinstic, 12 Friends Meeting, 13 Inde} indents, 12, 74 Jews- Synagogue, 13 Lady .luntingdon, 12 Latter Day Saints 13 Methodists, II ; New Con- nexion jVIethodist, 11 New Jenisalem,12 Presbyterian, II Primitive Methodists, 1 1 St. Jude's, 12 Second Advent, 13 Unitarian, 12 to 13 Unknown Tongue, 13 Churches, 3 All Saints, 4 Bishop Ryder's, 6 Christ Church, 6 Magdalen, 7 St. Andrew's, 5 St. Bartholomew's, 5 St. Barnabas, 73 St. George's, 4 St. James's, 6 St. Jude's, 6 St. Lnke's. 6 St. Mark's, 6 St. Martins. 3 St. Mary's, 5 St. Matthew's, 6 St. Paul's, 5 St. Peter's, 6 St. Phillip's, 4 St. Stephen's, 5 St. Thomas's, 4 Churches in Aston, 7 Holy Trinity, 7 St. James's, 7 St. John Baptist, 7 Churches in Edgbaston, 8 St. Bartholomew, 8 St. George's, 8 Church of the Saviour, 8 Church of England Lay As- sociation, 8 Clodshale Walter, de, 41 Coaches, 396 to 397 Coining Machines, 32 CoUis G. R. tfe Co. 35 Convent of Sisters of Mercy, 10 Corn Exchange, 31 Corporation, Members, 37 Corporation, (Petition for) 45 Coventry, (send him to,) 44 Courts, 57 Bankruptcy, 59 ; County, 58 ; Request, 57 ; Honour of Tutbury, 59 Cridda, 28 Crosses, (Old, New, and Welch, ) 44 Deaf (fe Dumb Institution, 26 Democratic Club, 54 Denby, Earl of, Shot, 45 Depots, (Tract) 28 Deritend, I, 40, 44, 73 Dirtey, 40 Digbeth, 44 Dispensary, (General) 25 Hamoepathic, 25 Self Supporting, 25 Duddeston, 1 , 73 Dugdale, Sir William, 40 Early Proprietors, 28, 29 Earthquake 46, Ecclesiastical Divisions, 3 Edgbaston 18, 70 Egginton Francis, 32 Electric Telegraph 51 ^Electro Plating 33 to 34 Encroachments 45 Erdington and Hall 73 Excise Otfiee, 53 Eye Infirmary, 26 Fairs, 42 Fire Arms, 35 Improvements in, 36 Fires, 46, 47 Fothergill Mr. 32 VI. GENERAL INDEX. Founderies, 33 Ciardens, M, 55, 56 (ias \\'orks. 53 General IIos])ital,23 General Provident Benevo- lent Institution, 27, 39 Gentlemen not Tnhbts. 41 Grammar School, 14 Gravelly Hill, 74 (irecian \'ase, 35 (inns and Swords, 35, 36 Hackney Coaches, 39 Tlandsworth. 1 Hay Market, 31 Ho.sjjital, (ieucral, 23 (Queen's, 24 House of Mercy, 10 Houses rated d- not rated, 31 Humane Society, 24 Hutton Wm. Historian, 48 Ikenield street, 43 Improvements, 36 Independents College, 18 Institutions, 26 John a Dean's Hole, 44 Johnstone, Dr. 22 King's standing, 43 Lamp Act, 53 Leather,...
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