Birmingham directory, 1879

jldiffli A Richards, Axle manufacturer* 191

Aiun» J., Furniture polish manufacturer 100

Allender W. A T., Brasafounders & metal worker* 42

Andi-rtttu C. Bicycle manufacturer 123

Appleby Brothers.Englneers.beller makers, bridge builders

Armstrong, Addison AjCo., Timber merehts. A preservers 101 Ash Brothers, stampers, tin plate workers a- japan tiers .. 23 Ash J. A Son, Galvanigers, iron plate workers A braziers (4 Aston J. A Sou, Manufacturer* of galvanized A japanned

J. A Sons, Steel. file, saw A edge tool manufacturers 141

Baker F., Letter cutter, die sinker A engraver 41

Baldwin E. 1*. A W., Sheet iron A tin plate ninuufaeturers 97 Baldwin J. A Sons, Paper makers, letterpress A litho- graphic printers 61

Ball J., Timber, mahogany A slate merchant 53

Raauani J. A Sons, Steel, file A hammer manufacturer* .. 123

Biaks E. A Son, Door bolt manufacturers 01

Barter W. L. A Co., Umbrella rib A stretcher manulaetrs.. 64

Bamsby J. A.. Wholesale brown saddler «8

Bartluet W. A Sous. Needle A fish hook manufacturers.. .. 86

lux by J., Auger, brace A bit manufacturer 143

Baytia II., Gold ear ring A locket manufacturer 65

Beckett A. A Sons, Steel, saw, flle, engineers' tool A ma- chine knife manufacturers 124

Bedford J. A Sons. Steel, flle, edge tool, saw A machine

knife manufacturers 124

Bell J.. Asbestos merchant 24

Belli* G. E. A Co.. Engineers A boiler makers 41

Bennett sir J., Watch A clock manufacturer Facing

rommeneepttnt o/ Topiyraphy o/ Birmingham ; Court A

Beatley A Jackson. Engineers, millwrights A iroufounder* 170

Belts A Sons. Bullion dealers, refiners A sweep smelters. . 88

Heather"* Patent Kailway Axle Box Co. Limited 6.'.

Killington A Newton, Brassfoanders 80

Bil»ton Iron Company 82

Bindley T. B. B.. Glue manufacturer 65

Birmingham A Midland Counties Val dc Travera Paving

BUke J., Engineer, hydraulic ram A wood working ma-

chinerv manufacturer 172 A 173

Bradford T. A Co., Laundry engineers A domestic machi- nery manufacturer* 176

Bnuneld W. G., British wine A cordial manufacturer 140

ttreeden J. A W. A Booth, Brasstounders A gas, steam A

Brieknell J., Manufacturer of Ivory A buffalo horu buttons 58

Bridge Wharf Timber Co 66

Bridges T.A Son*. Engineers A Ironfounders 76

Bnerley A Kershaw, Doffing A cleaning plate manufctrs. 175

British Enamelled Iron Co 66

Brook* A Cooper, Anvil A vice manufacturers 125

Brown A Ashton, Gun. rifle A pistol manufacturers 43

Brown E. A Son, Scissors manufacturers 143

Brown A Green Limited. Kitchen range A stove manufrs 7 BrownfieM W. A Sons. China, earthenware, Ironstone Ac.

Bnnn <*., Coach brassfounder 80

Carlisle Brother*. Ivory dealers 144

CarrJ. Manufacturer of patent woven ladder tape for

Venetian blinds 168

Caryl J. <'abinet maker A furniture remover 66

< oat win T.. Stock, die A tap manufacturer 44

Chrstrnnau J. A Co., Measuring tape manulncturers 102

Cborlton A Dugdale, Spring mattress, camp bed A iron

bed*t<>ad manufacturers 103

W.. Patent horse clipper manufacturer -

Coustantlne Brothers, Saw, flle, steel A machine knife

Corbett J., Salt manufacturer 83

Cranston A Luck, Horticultural builders 26

Crapper E. A Co., Lline A coal musters 81

Craven, Dunnill & Co. Limited, Encaustic A geometrical

tile manufacturer* 92

Crewdson. Crosses A » o. Limited, Cotton spinners A

1 Crosble R. L. A Co.. Brass A iron bedstead manufacturers 59

Cussans G. W. Hay A straw salesman A corn factor in

Cutta ( L P.), Sutton A Sons. Opticians UM

Dacca Twist Co.. Cotton spinners A manufacturers H'iO

Daniell S. A., Copying A stamping press manufacturer... 44

Darblshire W. A., (Juarrv owner 179

Davidson T. Jun. A Co., Tobacco pipe manufacturers 180

Davies W. J. A Sons, Emery, emery cloth A blacklead

Dariea W. . Fender knob A Are Iron manufacturer 90

Davis A Wilson, Whip mount A material manufacturers. . 59

Davi* W., Silversmith 67

Davy Brothers, Limited, Engineers A boiler maker* 103

Dewsnap J., Travelling dressing bag A case manufacturer 101

Dickson Dr. F. K. Private lunatic asylum 92

I Dixon J. A Sous, Silver, electro plate A britannia metal

Dixon J. A Sous. Patent drawer knob manufacturers 153

I Dodge J. A R. Limited, Steel. Hie, saw, edge tool A cutlery

Donkln B. A Co., Engineers, Ironfounders A steam engine

I Drabble A Sanderson. Steel, saw, tile, c<lge tool A machine

knife manufacturers 126

Dudley Earl of. Iron manufacturer 83

Dyson J. A Co., Steel, file, saw A wire manufacturer* 127

Ende* W. Son A Co., Pulley block A hoist manufacturer*. . 45 Edwards W A Son. Edge tool, spade A shovel mauufctr* 77 Edwards J. C, Glased stoneware sewerage pipe manufactr. 175

Elkington W„ Washer manufacturer 81

Fairbrother J. A Co. Limited, Steel A wire manufacturers 127

Fenner J. H. A Co., Leather, machine band, strapping A

hose pipe manufacturers 157

Ferraby A Hare. Importers of Russian mats, bags, Ac - 160 Fisher K., Manufacturer of tea kettle A coffee, pot spouts. . 67 Flather D. A Sons, Edge A joiners' tool, flle, saw A akata

Fleming A. B. A Co., Printing ink manufacturers 179

Ford Chandelier, lamp A gaaflttlngs manufacturer.... 45

Foster R. A Co., Ventilator manufacturers 27

Fox K. A Son. Sack, canvas A wool-sheettngmanufacturers 190 Fox 8. A Co. Limited, Steel, wire A umbrella frame mnfrs 108

Gadd T.. Bolt, nut A rivet manufacturer 24

Galltmore W. A Co , Nickel silver, brass A wire manufctrs 1K5 Gameson G., Iron chain, bolt, nut A rivet manufacturer. . . 68 > Glbbs R. R., Hot water heating apparatus manufacturer

Inside Hack Corer Gibson T., Axle manufactnrerAgencralcoachlronfounder 68

Gilbert B., Tent, marquee A rick cloth manufacturer 46

Gillott.l., Steel pen manufacturer 47

Gilpin W. sen. A Co.. Auger, bit, edge tool A axle manfrs Ort

Glamorgan Coal Co. Limited 177

: Glossop. Tingle A Co., Steam hammer manufacturers 128

Gone J. A Son*, Mineral water manufacturer* 46

Goodman G., Pin, needle A fith hook manufacturer 60

Gray J. A Son, Surgical, dental A veterinary Instrument

Great Western Railway Co 47

Green, Cadbury A Richards, Button A fancy small ware

Green, Yeoman A Smith, Button manufacturers 29

Green J. A Nephew, Mortising A tenoning machine manfrs 150

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.. A Fardon Limited. Brass & iron bedstead manu-

Greenwood A Bailey. Machinists 151

Gregory * Bramall, Steel, wire, file, saw .V hammer manfrs 129

Gretton B.. Wire worker A weaver 48

Grew F., Lithographer, engraver Ac printer 49

Griffiths A Browett, Iron A tinplate workers A; Japnnncrs.. 49

Guest A Chrimcs. Brassfounders 110

Guntber W.. Mowing A exhausting fan manufacturer ... 174

Hudfield's Steel Foundry Co 129

Hnigh A. A Co., Brassfounders A finisher* 191

llaliamG. A Co.. Hackle A gill pin manufacturers 13i»

liauuuond J., Tube vice manufacturer 50

Hands Brothers, Cabinet brassfounders AM

ilautbt J. A Sour, Engineers, mill wrigbts, iron A brussfodrs 50

Hardy T. A Son, Cutlery tnsmn'neturers 144

Harper J. A Co., Lock A latch manufacturer* 91

Harris A Mill*. Patent agent* 17

Harrison G. K.. Fire-clay A brick work* K)

Hartshornc G. A Co., Chain cable A anchor manufacturer*. *4 Hattersley A F aiding. Breech-loading implement manufrs 144

iiattou, Sons A Co., Iron A tinplate manufacturer* 1*>4

Hawksley G. A J. W., Breech -loading implement manufrs 145 Hawksley, Wild A Co.. Boiler A stenm engine manufrK.... 100

Hay tics H. W., Hope A: twine manufacturer 60

Hay ward Brother*. Pavement light manufacturer*........ 18

11 azlewood .V Burgess. Stlveriuiths A Jewellers 51

Heaton A Dugard, Boiling mills 68

Heaton K. A Sons, Metal workers, gas linings, tube *

wire manufacturers 3 '

Herring .1. & Sous. Edge tool, saw, file A steel mauufetrs 192

Highflcld G. A Co. Steel A wire manufacturers 13-'

Hildick A., Edge tool manufacturer 145

Hill C. Ivory turner 145

Hill F., Japanned A galvanised wrought Iron goo<ls mnuft 60

Hipkina G. F. & Sou, Corkscrew manufacturers 60

Hodge*K..Jun.,Cablnet, upholsterer* A bailders' brassfudr .11

Holden >"., Gimlet, auger, brace A bit manufacturer 146

Hooper J., Barometer A thermometer manufacturer 52

Horsfall W. A Co., Ironfouuders A tool makers. 189

Howell A Co., Steel, file A saw manufacturers 112

llubbuck T. A Son. Win! iluc paint, white lead, oil A

varnish manufacturers 18

Hudson H. A. A Co., Tube manufacturers AO

Hughes T. C. A Son, Needle A fish hook manufacturers 94

Hughes D., Stone A marble maaou 69

Ibbotsou Brothers A Co. Limited, Steel, file, saw A railway

plant manufacturers 101

India Rubber, Gutta l'ercha A Telegraph Work aCo.Luni ted

Jackson W. A Sons, Steel, file, saw k tool manufacturers.. 131

J agger J. A G-, Wire manufacturers HO I

Johnson J. A Co., Black lead A blue manufacturers 162

Jones A Attwood, Engineers A ironfouuders 80 !

JowittT.ASons,Stecl.n%,saw,bAmmerAeiiglneent'toolmnfs 131

of the Tost Office London A Country Directories "

Kemp A Tabberner, OH, tallow A grease merchants . Kemp A. A Sou, Gold A silverplatlng

North R.. Brick A tile

Kendrick A Co. , IroufoundVrs Kllner Brothers, Cutlery manufacturers kirkstall Forge Co., Iron, railway tire A axlemanfr* 152 A 153

Kitchin S. A J., Cutlery manufacturer* 132

Knight Brother*, Electro platers A silversmiths 146

Lombourn C, Chair manufacturer..... 70

LawsouS. ft Sons, Machinists 156

Lay cock S. A Sous, Hair seating A curled lialr manufacirs 113 Uadbcater A Scott, Steel, file A hummer manufacturer* .. 140 Leighton T. A Sons, Gold watch baud Ac. A clock manu-

Leonard D. A Son, Guu, rifle A revolver manufacturers .. 70 Lconi S. A Co., Gas engineers A gas stove manufacturers.. 19

Lloyd F. A Co. Charcoal A black lead manufacturers 19

Lloyd R. A Co. Steel straight edge, square A rule manufrs 70

Loudon Warming A Venn luting Co. 20

Loveridgc S. A Son*. Manufacturing Jewellers A opticians 70 Lucas E. A Son, Malleable Ironfouuders, steel, spindle A

flyer A. spaded: shovel manufacturers 98 A 99

Macbrair W. UL Vice, nick At hammer manufacturer 114

Macintosh C. A Co., India rubber A india rubber goods mfrs 164

Maiius D., Hot water It horticultural engineer 71

-Manly G., Nail & rivet manufacturer 71

Mantcll T., Coacn A carriage builder 183

Manton H. J., >llvci smith .v manufacturer of cut A

engraved glass 53

Marples B. Ac Son, Edge A Joiners' tool manufacturers .... 140 Maybury, Marston A sduwpc. Steel A iron hoop manufrs.. 105 Measures Brothers A Co. Iron girder A column mauufetrs 2u Messenger Ac Sons, Chandelier, candelabra A gas fittings

man ufarturcrs 33

Mil ward H.Ac Sous, Needle A fish hook mnuufacturers 86

Moseley D. A Sons. India rubber manufacturers 166

Newey Brothers, Hook ,v eye manufacturer* 71

Newton T. Machinist A tool manufacturer 140

Nieholsou T.. Machinist 153

NlokUa J. A Co., Buttou. uiiUury A naval oraamea* At pin

North BriUsh Bubber Co. Limited Facing Titl* Pagt

N orth Moor Foundry Co. Limited 174

Oakey J. At Sons, Emery, emery cloth A black lead manfrs -1

Old Castle Iron A Tinplate Co. Limited 17*

Ormcrod. Gricrson A Co., Engineers, millwrights A

boiler makers 167

Osier F. A C, Chandelier, lamp A table glass manufactrs . 21 Otley T. A Sons, Electro plated A britaunla metal goods

Oxley J., Cutlery manufacturer 140

Palmer J. Ac Sons, Hammer, wrench A spanner manufactrs U

Palmer W. B. Limited, Malleable Ironfounders 35

Parkin W. A Sons, Scissors Ac shears manufacturers 147

Parkin C, Edge A Joiners' tod auger A skate manufactr.. 192 Pay ton C. A Sons, Gold Jewellery manufacturers ......... 01

Peace W. K. Ar C. Steel, file, saw. edge tool, A machine

knife manufacturers 133

Pearsc T.L., Picture frame, monidin^ * window blind ninft 71

Pcu-yr-Or*edd Slat.- Quarry Co. Limited 170

Perigo J., Cutlery manufacturer 147

Pickering J. A' Sons, Polishing paste A plate powder mnfr* 134 Pitt Ac Iugall, Papier mache A iron tray manufacturers ... 72

Pooley H. A Son, Weighing machine manufacturers 161

Post Office Directories - List of - Kelly A Co 19.»

Potter J., Vice, auvll A screw manufacturer SKI

Power F. A. A: Co.. Wire manufacturers 54

I*ru»t G. B., Lamp A stove manuiaciurer 54

Purshouse DM. >teel mill manufacturer 91

Qneensgate Whiiing Co loo

Kamsdcn, Carmn A Co., Wire drawers At galvanlzers 141

Kalhbonc G.. Malleable ircmfoundi r 7ti

Bra. Neale Ac Bourne. J spanners, tin A iron plate workers 72

Bead H., Brusb manufacturer 5ft

iteade Brothers, Varnish A Japan manufacturers 7x

Bed Cross Wire Works Co 7.1

Bey nokts F. W. A Co., Wood working A builders'machinery

Bichards E. At Sou, Axle manufacturers 1M

Bidge, Woodcock A Hardy, Electro plate A brltannia

metal goods manufacturers 141

Kobertson, Brooman A Co., Patent agents 11

Bodgera J. A Sons Limited. Cutlet y manufacturers 116

Bose, Downs A Thompson, Engineers, millwrights, iron A

brassfounders A oil mill machinery manufacturers 1 .-

Rose Sir W. A. A Co., White lead, color, varnish A railway

grease manufacturers........ 12

Rossell H. A Co., Steel A file manufacturers 134

Bound E. A Son Limited, Electro plate manufacturer*. - .. lsft Round J. Ac Sou Limited, Silversmiths A electro plate

Russell Brothers, Tube manufacturers "»*

Sai-son* H. A Son. Flint glass manufacturers 36

Scafe L. K . Leather merchant 153

Schlele C. A Co. ( Union Engineering Co-k Blowing A ex-

Seott Brothers, Eugineers' tool manufacturers Mat

Serlven A Co., Engineers' tool manufacturers 156

Shakespeare A Son, Draw plate A gauge manufacturers . . 73

Shaw J., Hammer manufacturer 147

Shaw J., Wire rope, fencing A lightning conductor mnfrtr.. 1 1*

Sheffield Dally Telegraph, Newspaper If*

Sheffield Smelting ( 141

Shepherd. Hill A C <> . Engineers' tool luaufrs.&lronfuundcrs H'o

Simpson J., Bolt Ac nut manufacturer 183

Skey G. A Co. Limited, Glased stoneware sewerage pipe

Skidmore H. P. (rep*, of). Tube manufacturers 84

Skldmore W.. Surgical, dental &

Smart T„ Braasfounder

Smith A Law, Engineers, millwright*, iron A brass foondrs Smith T. A Sons, Hammer A edge tool manufacturer*

Sorbv T. A Sons, Iron merchants A: steel manufacturers. . . Spencer G. A Co., Mechanical engineers for india rubber

8peuoer J. R. A Son. File A steel manufacturers 120

Spencer W. A Co- Steel A file manufacturers Ill

Spencer W. A Son. Steel file A rasp manufacturers 136

Staffordshire Bolt, Nut A Fencing Co. Limited 181

Staffordshire Wheel A Axle Co. Limited *i

Stayne* A Sons. Tanners, curriers A leather factors Hi

Steer A Webster, Cutlery manuiaciurer* 142

Stevenson J. A J., Comb manufacturers 147

Stewart S. B. A Co., Comb manufacturers 1M

Storry, Smithson A Co., Tar Ac. distillers, paint, color A

Strode A Co., Gas A hot water engineers 13

Stubbs" Mercsn tile Offices M

Styrlng T. * Sou. Manufacturing opticians 14H

Tandy G., Comb manufacturer 1*8

Tangye Brothers, Engineers, steam engine A boiler

makers /rwid* front Cover

Taunton J. Ac j.. Fireproof safe manufacturers 73

Taylor C, Lathe Ac tool manufacturer «

Tavlor R., Importer of Baltic A Archangel mats 16o

Thompson A Wilson. Engineers' A machine tool manutrs 154 Thompson H., Edge tool, auger, brace A bit manufacturer 148

Thompson 8., Iron A tinplate manufacturer 91

Timmlns W., Fender manufacturer 90

Tomkius S. J., Auger, gimlet >v br.-.cv bit manufacturer ... <tf

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T^it W. A Sons, Brassfounders A metal workers 37

teel, Ale, «sw, edge Aengluee

Tsraer.XaylorA Harpies

mi manufacturers ,

Iwr A. A Sob*. Potters

Tawr W. A Son, Steel, flic, n»w A engineer*' tool mnnfrs Twer A Co., Iron, bras* & copper rivet manufacturers , .

l* Matthew*, Steel, flle. Haw, edge A engl-

G. * Son, Uor»e clipper Trxaek W. Sons A Turner, 8teel. flle. scythe.

^Daciay Froui Curxr laion Engineering Co. (C. Sehlclc A Co.). Blowing A ex-

I o«in A Rodders. Lim. Breeeh-'.oa.lni. pistol knife innfrs 137 Vale W. A Sons. Pencil case A penholder manufacturer* . 74

VjUlers Spelter Co. Limited 17*

Walker A Hall, Electro plate A cutlery manufacturer* A

Wsiker J A So'i^'i^le'AVatp'mannfr*'. A steel* merchants 74

M ilter II., Needle manufacturer

Walker S., Tabe A wire manufacturer &i

Wardlow S. A C. Steel manufacturers 142

W'arrtss G., Silrer plater k electro plated goods manufrtr. 142

Mebb'* Worcester Tileries Co.

West Kent

WestwoodT. A Souw, Brassfoundsrs A tube manufacturers Ati

Wcstwood C. Gold, silver * platinum rutincr 7A

Whitehead A Butterworth, rfyetet manufacturer* 17;.

Whitehousc G., Tube manufacturer 63

White bouse J., Wrought iron hinge manufacturer TV

Wlihfield K. B., Bra** A iron bedstead manufacturer 3tt

Wldifield 8. H„ Steel pen manafucturer 57

Whitham J. A Son. Engineers, millwrights, boiler maker*,

iron A brass founders J.V.

Widdowson G., Builder A contractor 75

Wlgfall J. A Co., Cutlery manufacturers Ish

Wlleock. Jones A Cook, Iron hoop manufacturer* 187

Wilkes (J.) Mapplebeek A Co., Tube manufacturer* 03

Wtlklns A Wright, Chain manufacturers 63

Wilkinson W. A Sons, Shears manufacturers 137

Wilkinson W. 8., Engineer*' tool manufacturer Htf

WHUs H. A Son, Steel A wire manufacturer* 138

Wills A. W. Spade, shovel A edge tool manufacturer »39

Wlufleld K. W. A Co., Brassfounders, tube, wire, gas-

fittinga A chandelier manufacturer* 4o

Wiugtleld, Rowbotham A Co., Steel, flic, saw, machine

knife A cutlery manufacturers ]£-

Wish G., Silver plated A brttannia metal goods manufactr MB Woodward J.. Glazed stoneware sewerage pipe, terra

cot la, lire clay A brick manufacturer U4

Woodward J.. Stereotyper A electrotyper 7ft

Wordsworth J. A Sons, Wire manufacturers 180

Wordsworth J. W. A Co., Wire manufacturers US

Yardley A Co.. Spade, shovel A draining tool manufactrs . 81 Tatea J. A Sons. Electro plate manufacturers ft?

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Birminoham is a municipal and parliamentary borough, the capital of the midland shirts, and emporium of the me- chaaical art* ; it was anciently called Bromwycham, from the great English tribe of the liroomiugs, or Brumraiugs, which settled here; several adjacent places having a similar derivati ve, as Castle Bromwich, Little Bromwich, West Bromwich, Bromsgrove, the Bromleys. Broom, Broomhill and others. How the name came at an early date to be cor- rupted into Birmingham is not known ; the old pronuncia- tion is, however, it should be observed, still preserved among some classes, and Is the popular term of Brummagem. It is a corporate, market, and union town, polling place in the Birmingham division of the hundred of Hemlingford, and forming a rural deanery in the archdeaconry of Coventry, and in the diocese of Worcester. The town is situated in the north-west part of Warwickshire on the border, near Staffordshire and Worcestershire, on undulating ground on the small river Rea, near its confluence with the Tame, an affluent of the Trent, and is in latitude W north, longitude 1° 48' west; distant 97* miles south-east from Liverpool, and 1121 north-west from London by railway; tfci south-east from Manchester; 20 north-west from War- wick ; 18 north-west from Coventry ; 22 north-west from Stratford-upon-Avon ; 8 south-east from Dudley ; 14 south- east from Wolverhampton ; and 27 from Leamington ; it is on the high roads from London to Lancashire and the north- west, and from the south-western counties to the midland and north-eastern. The ancient Roman way of Icknield Street pasees through the suburbs of the town ; it is also at the junction of the London and North Western ( London and Birmingham, Grand Junction, and Manchester and Birmingham Extension lines) ; .Midland (Birmingham and Bristol, and Birmingham and Derby lines) ; Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley; and Birmingham and Oxford railways ; forming a grand railway centre. The Birming- ham and Worcester, Birmingham and Walsall, Birmingham and Faze lev, and Warwick and Birmingham canals, give It additional advantages with regard to water communication. The Dudley, or South Staffordshire, coal and iron Held approaches within three miles of the town. Birmingham is the seat of an Assay Office, for assaying gold and silver wares ; of a Gun Proof Office ; of a Catholic Bishop and Catholic College (at Oscott) ; of a Royal College for Medi- cine, Arts, Engineering and Law ; and of a College for students for the ministry among the Congregational Dis-

Birmingham borough returns three members to Parlia- ment, under "The Representation of the People Act | 1867," subject to the provision that no person shall vote tor more than two candidates; the municipal and parliamen-

Birmingham borough includes within its boundary the parishes of Birmingham and Edgbaston and part «f the pariah of Astom, and for municipal purposes is sivided into sixteen wards, and is governed by a corporation, consisting of a mayor, sixteen aldermen, and forty-eight

I town councillors, with a recorder, and court of quarter sessions, bench of borough magistrates, town clerk, clerk of the peace, coroner, and treasurer. Birmingham is the plaee of meeting of the county magistrates acting for the sub- division. There are several local barristers, conveyancers, and above 200 solicitors and notaries.

The parish of Birmingham is a district, as are Aston and King's Norton, for the registration of births, deaths, and

Birmingham seems to have been the seat of a small Roman station on Icknield Street, and some antiquities of the Romans have been found there. At the time of the " Domes- day Survey " it seems to have been a town held by Ulwin. According to the writings of Leland (in Camden's*' Britan- nia "), there existed in 1.V.H an extensive manufacture. He says: - "I came through a praty street or ever I entered Bermingham. This street, as I remember, is called Dirtey (Deritend). In it dwell smiths and cutlers; and there is a brooke that divides this street from Bermingham. The beauty of Bermingham, a good market town in the extreme parts of Warwickshire, is one street going up along, almost from the left ripe of the brooke, up a mean hill, by the length of a quarter of a mile. I saw but one Paroch Church in the towne. There be many smiths in the towne, that use to make knives and all manner of cutting tools, and many lorimers that make bittes, and a great many naylours ; so that a great part of the towne is maintained by smiths, who have their iron and sea-coal out of Staffordshire."

The town is little mentioned in history until the time of Parliament and were severely handled by Prince Rupert, who sacked and burnt part of the town in April, 1643. In the reign of Charles II. Birmingham l>egan to rise rapidly in importance, and its commercial progress then became its most distinguishing feature; the only other remarkable incident being the riots of July, 1791, against the Dis- senters, when the houses and papers of Dr. Priestley, of William Hutton, the historian of Birmingham, and other distinguished men, were burned. Birmingham has con- tinued to improve; and, profiting by its manufacturing facilities, by its situation in the central part of England, near the coal and iron fields, and by its extensive com- munications, it has become one of the greatest manufac- turing towns in the country. The people of Birmingham have attained the supremacy in many branches of manu- facture ; they likewise hold a high rank for their encourage- ment of the arts. The progress of the town has been very much facilitated by the exertions of the distinguished men who have been connected with its history - John Wilkinson, John Taylor, John Wyatt, John Baskerville, Dr. Priestley, Watt, Boulton, Eginton, Murdoch, and many ethers, by whom the manufactures of Birmingham have been improved and extended.

The political independence of Birmingham is due to the zealous and indefatigable exertions of the late Thomas

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Attwood, esq. (the founder of the Birmingham Political Union), to whom a marble statue was erected in 1859 in front of the North Western railway station in New street. In 1839 Birmingham was a great hold of the Chartists, and in consequence of their tumultuous meetings and riots the local police were first introduced.

The manufacture- of Birmingham and its neighbourhood are on a vast scale, and are of the most interesting character, exhibiting the greatest proofs of skill, taste, ami enterprise : they are chiefly in the working of metals. The greatest establishments are for iron ami brass founding, rolling, stamping, plating and drawing of metals, and for the manu- facture of Iron roofs and girders, steam engines, gasometer*, railway waggons and carriagi-s, coach and railway lamps, gal- 1 vauised iron, wire, steel pens, and metallic bedsteads. Glass | blowing, brewing, and coachmaking are also extensively carried on. Besides these, guns and rifles, steel toys, tool's dog collars, spring dog couples, asses' skin, boot and button hooks, bag frames, shutter bars, steel tobacco boxes, sugar moulds, catgut, cutlery, needles, pins, gold and silver chains, jews' harps, ship-tanks, tea-urns, bullet moulds, blowpipes, chill rolls, knife handles, screw gilding, spiral springs, galvanic rings, wedding and holes, tweezers, ladles and spoons, magnet*, scotch suuff- letter cutting, pocket book*, spectacles, umbrella furniture, and magnetic plating and gilding. The button trade has

burnishers, and finishers. Among brandies of the buckle trade are those for stock, hat, brace and belt, garter, knee, shoe, spur, clog, girth, roller, bridle and harness buckles. Bell founding includes bells for churches, clocks, house*, cows aud sheep. Guns form one of the most important branches of manufacture: from n return which was laid tefore Parliament of the number of gun* and pistols which were proved in Birmingham Iroui the year 1844 to March loth, 1854, it will be seen that three millions and a quarter -tand of arms were produced in ten years : the number of gun Of the gun trade are the following branches: gun engravers, aud hair-trigger makers, breech-loading action makers, breech forgers, break -off fitters, gun lock filers and formers, and browners.

The glass works produce many kinds of toys, buttons, optical instruments, beads, bugles, hour-glasses, and arti-

Besides silver-plating, electrotyping is carried on exten- sively; many small gold and silver toys are made; and all kinds of jewellery, from the costliest to the cheapest ware is carried to a hi»\\ state of perfection. Ivory, bone, ; i .- 1, glass and whalebone are extensively worked. The metals iron, brass, silver, gold, german silver, solder, tin piate, zinc, nickel, britannia metal, bn>nze, lead and pewter, me worked into every possible form for useful and orna- mental purposes.

The various factories employ many kinds of artists, as

There are extensive chemical works for vitriol, sal-am- moniac, cobalt, nickel, acetic acid, acetates of lead and lime, verdigris, colors, varnishes, lacquer, bronzes, plating powder, and plaster of paris.

Birmingham is divided into great industrial " districts" - the manufacture of guns and pistol* and gun imple- ments being around St. Mary's church, as a centre; while the jewellery district surrounds St. Paul's church and St. George's; and the button manufacturers and brass trades, steel pen and bedstead manufactories are more or less scattered in other parts of the town. The history of the Birmingham trades is the history of midland manufactures; not only did the steel pen, the button, the gun, the metallic bedstead, the gas fitting and the immense brass trades originate aud flourish here, but even the cotton trade was carried on for some years; and the invention of spinning In roller*, the foundation of Ark- wriuht's fortune, was successfully accomplished by John Wvatr and Lewis Paul, in 17:13, in the Upper Priory, where the ! rienoV School now stands.

There is a Government School of Art and Design in

Paradise street, where a large number of industrial pupils learn drawing, modelling and painting.

The Bank of England has a hraneh here, and there are several other banks : the note circulation is in Bank of England notes. The Chamber of Commerce was originally established in 1813, and afterwards re-organised in 1853 ; it is In Exchange buildings, Stephenson place. Birming- ham, though inland, has several consuls. There are some freehold land and building societies.

In Birmingham and its Suburbs there are above eighty churahe* and chapejs of the Establishment.

The following are in the parish of Birmingham : -

St. Martin's, or The Old, church, in the Bull ring, is the mother church, and is an ancient huilding, having chan- cel and chancel aisles, nave, ai*les, transepts, with handsome modern spire, and contains a fine peal of 12 bells and chimes, and an illuminated clock. The body of the church has been rebuilt ; the interior is faced with Cod*a)l stone, the exterior is of Grinshill and Derbyshire stone : it contains four early monuments, supposed to be those of the Lords de Birmingham, which are placed in the chancel. The register dates from the year 1544. Thelivinglsarectorv, gross yearly by the Rev William Wilkinson, D.D. of Trinity College, Dublin. The old Rectory House in Bath row was sold to the Queen's Hospital in 18G8, and a rectorv has been built at Sparkbrook, from design* by Mr. J. A. Chatwin.

Christ Church, New street, was built in 1605, as a free church ; it is or stone, in the Roman-Doric style, and will seat 1,500 persons; the altar-piece is of carved mahogany. The register dates from the year 1885. The living b a vicarage, with the prebend of Tacbbrooke in Lichfield Cathedral attached, yearly value £380. in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1871 by the Rev. Albert Workman, m.a. of Trinitv College, Cambridge.

St. Philip's church, St. Philip's churchyard, was built m 1711. restored with the exception of the toswer in 1859, and is of stone in the Italian style ; it ia capable of and chimes : Moses llaughton, a painter, is buried The register dates from the year 1715. The living is a rectory in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and endowed by Queen Anne with the canon ry of Sawley in Lichfield Cathedral, now suppressed, in place of which the rector now receives an aunuit) from the Ecclesiastical Com- missioners; the Rev. Henry Bond Bowlby, M.a. fate fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, has been the rector since 1875. There is a Rectory House; and adjoining is the Theological Library founded by the Rev. William Higgt, use of the clergy of the neighbourhood.

St. George's church, Tower street, is a Gothic building of a nave and aisles and a lofty square embattled tower ; It has a good organ, and seats "l. 889. The church was re- novated throughout in 1870. The register dates from tae the gift of trustees, and held since 1875 by the Rev. John Gilbert Dixon, m.a. of Caius College, Cambridge; attached to the church are school-rooms for 1,200 childreu.

cost of £10,000, by Messrs. Hickman, in the Doric style, with a portico of four columns, and it is an imitation of the Choragic Monument of Lvsicrates: it has seats for 1,500. The register dates from the year 1827. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £200, in the gift of Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1870 by the Rev- Robert Dell, m.a. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

St. Thomas', In Bath row, Holloway head, which stauds on an elevated site and may be seen from a great distance, was built In 1626, bv Messrs. Rickman and Hutchinson, at ceiling ; it was opened in 1829, and Is calculated to hold persons; 1.000 of the seats, including the entire galleries, are free ; the western entrance is ornamented with six Ionjc columns; the eastern end is also ornamented with WBJ columns, supporting a handsome pediment ; from the cc»tr* columnsof a similar character; these sustain a light octag»' cupola, surmounted by a gilt ball and cross ; at the eas end is a stained window, presented by Mr. J. Jacks n a, of Bath row. the subject being St. Thomas' unbeliet removed] In the chancel is a handsome marble monument to the Rev. George Stringer Bull, late rector. The register dates from the year 1835. The living is a rectory. J*W value about £550, in the gift of trustees, and held W 18701»v the Rev.Thoma* Daniel Halsted.M.A. of Trinity i cu-

Immanuel church, Broad street, was consecrated in I - 1SG5; it is a handsome edifice in the Decorated Gothic stym

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bm it at a cost of £4,400, raited by subscription ; there are 800 sittings, tiou of which are free ; the taming is warmed oy Had en's heating apparatus. The register dale* from the year 1805. The tiring i* a vicarage, endowed with £&>u - year by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in the gift of trustee*,' and held dace 1865 by the Rer. Charles Hand ley

St. Bartholomew's, in Maethouse lane, is a brick build- ing, erected in 1740, and has a good altar-piece and eoiuiaunion plate. The register date* liom the year 1847. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £.'«M), in the gift of the rector of St. Martin's, and held since Idol hv the Rev. James Eagles, M.A. of Corpus < hristi College, Cambridge.

St. Mary's church, St. Mary's square, waa built in 1774, and is of brick : the east window is stained - subject, The Transfiguration. The burial and baptismal registers date a vicarage ; the fixed endowment is £33 with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1837 by the Rev. John Case bow Barrett, m.a. of Christ Church, Oxford.

St. Haul's church, St. Paul's square, was built in 1779, and has a good steeple and a fine stained window repre- senting The Conversion of St. Paul. The register dates from the year 1770. The living is n vicarage, yearly value about £300, with residence, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1807 by the Rev. Richard Rennet Burge*. m.a. of Trinity College, Dublin.

Bishop Ryder's church, in Gem street, is named in remem- brance of n former Bishop of Lichfield. The register dates from the year 1839. The Jiving is a vicarage, vearlv value Joseph Phelps Gardiner.

All Saints' church, All Saints' street, Lodge mad, Is a handsome brick building, erected at a cost of £3,817. and has 1 ,200 sittings. The register dates from the venr 1833. The living is a rectory, annual value £400, in the gift of trustee,*, and held since 1876 by the Rev. John Hubert Scott, m.a.oI ~ John's College, Cambridge.

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St. Mark's, King Edward's road, is a has chancel, nave, aisles, two west end east window, and a tower ami spire containing 1 bell. The register dates from the year 1841. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £900, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1877 by tile Rev. Robert Leigh ton George Pidcock.M.A.of Christ's College, Cambridge.

St. Joha Ladywood church, Monument road, Lady- wood, is a handsome stone structure, consecrated in 1854; It has chancel, nave, aisles, two side and west end galleries, handsome stained windows at the oast end of the chancel and one at the east end of the smith aisle, a reredos in stone and marble, and square embattled tower with tour de- corated pinnacles and containing 1 bell; it was erected, King Edward'* school, the stone being presented by Lord Calthorpe; it contains an organ which cost £500. The register dates from the year 1854. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £420, with residence, in the gift of the rector of St. Martin's, and held since 1868 by the Rev. John Leech Porter, m.a. of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. Stephen's, in New Town row, is a Gothic building, and consists of chancel, nave and aisles ; it contains 1,150 aittings, of which 700 are free. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £250, In the gift of the Crown and the Bishop of Worcester alternately, and held since 1854 by the Rev. Patrick Reynolds, ll.b. of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. Matthins' church, Wheeler street, is a modern brick ssdifice, hating 1,100 sittings, all free; it has nave and aisles, with gallery at the west end ; the service is sup- ported by voluntary weekly offerings. The register dates from the year 185G. The living is a vicarage, vearlv value £3»>0, in the gift of trustees (the rectors of St. Martin's, St. George s St. Thomas', and All Saints'), and held since 1874 by the Rev. Jas. Lunt. m.a. of Corpu* Christi College,

St. Luke's church in Bristol street, is a stone building in the Norman style: it consists of nave and aisles; at the west angle is a tower (the roof of which Ls also of stone) containing 1 bell : it was erected by the Birmingham Church Building Society at a cost of £3,700, and con- secrated September 28, 1842. The register dates from the the gift of trustees, and held since 1875 by the Rev. Willoughby Balfour Wilkinson, m.a. of Caius College, Cambridge. There are National schools belonging to it.

St. June's church, Tonk street, is of hrick/in the Early English style, consecrated in July, 1851 : it has chancel, nave, and aisles. The register dates from the year 1851- The living is a vicarage, yearly value £150, its the gilt of the Crown and Bishop of Worcester alternately, and held

since 1873 by the Rev. Timothy George Wat Urn, m.a. m Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

St. Nicolas church, Lower Tower street, wn« built in the years 1807-8. The site waa given by Messrs. ikiugtoa; the Ryland trustees and the representatives of the late Mr. it. Elkinuton contributing largely towards the cost of erection : in I860 an organ was erected by subscription : iu 1870 the atringcourse, caps and corbels in the chancel were handsomely caned, a re redo* of conllano stone erected, and the saerariuni lined with ornamental rilas at the coat of F. Klkington, esq. : a stained window, representing the Twelve A|K»tles.i»overthe principal doorway. The church contains about 600 sittings, the whole of which are free. The register dates from the veer 1868. The living is a vicarage, yearly value about £300, in the gift of the Bishop or Wor- cester, aad held since 1875 by the R-v. William Higgln Connor, M.A. of St. (Catharine's College, Cambridge.

St. Cuthbert'a church, Heath street, it a handsome brick and stone building iu the Karly Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, uisles, vestry and tower at tb« north-east. The nave is 52 fest in height, and has a clerestory mui open timbered roof: the aisles are divided into five boys by stone arches upon Mansfield stone piers, each buy having a three - light wiudow, with a traceiied head, surmounted b> agable. The chancel is snsidal in form, and (slighted hv three three- light gabled windows. The church contains sittings for 720, and is situated in a district comprising a population of about 12,000 persons, mostly of the labouring classes. The living Is a perpetual curacy', yearly value £300, in the gift of the Birmingham trust, and held since 1872 by the Rev. William Haigh Tarleton, m.a. of St. John's College, Cambridge.

St. Asaph's, Great Colmore street, is a district formed Iroin part of St. Thomas's parish : the church", i secrated in December, 1808, consists of a chancel. t.» ind aisles; the cost, including t lie site, was about £6,500. the opening three stained window* have been in the chancel : it contains sittings for 050 persons. . Y. Thomason. of Bennett's hill, was the architect. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a vicarage, vearly endowment £200, in the gift of trustees, an I held since 1879 by the Rev. Robert Fletcher. The school is situated in Bow street.

The church of St. David, situate in Bisseli street. Is a Gothic stone building, consecrated in 1865, consisting of chancel, nave with transepts and tall spire: there is a handsome stained window in the chancel, the gift of John Nicholls, esq. of this town; this gentleman also pre- sented the church with a fine toned organ at a cost of £300 : there is also a sum of money invested for the annual relief of the pour. The church has nearly 1,000 sittings, 700 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1865. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £350, in the gift of trustees, ami held since 1865 by the Rev. Henrv Boyden, b.a. of Trinity College, Dublin.

The church of St. Gabriel, situate in Barn street, is Gothic, of stone and brick, and was consecrated in 1860 ; it consists of chancel, nave, aisles and small spire; by subscription ; there are 600 sittings, the greater port being Iree. The register dates from 1870. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £300, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1874 by the Rev. James Thomas Tau.se, of Queen's College, Birmingham.

of St. Margaret stands at the junction of Alston streets, the entrance porch being in The church consists of chancel, nave, bap- , north and south aisles, with apsidal term i nut ions, vestries, and porch at west end with children's gallery over : the building is after the style of the twelfth century, and is constructed of red brick with tile roof: in the interior the nave, arcade, nrches. and reverts and groins of windows and doorway are ot red brick: the columns of the nave are of stone with boldly carved capitals : the light is principally derived from a serins of clerestory windows, and from a large west window over the porch: there is also a row ot lancet windows in each of the aisles: the aisles are intended to be used only as passages to the seats, which arc all placed in the nave, so that the view of the pulpit and chancel is not obstructed by the columns: the walls are partly lined with red brick and partly plastered, and left tor future decorations: the ceiling is arched: the aisles are pavet: with tiles : the nave is furnished with 720 sittings, stained and varnished, all free : the subject carved in the tympanum of the west door is the Last Judgment. The church was consecrated 2nd ot October, 1675 ; patron, Lord Bishop of Worcester; incumbent, since 1871, Rev.Henry Allden Nash. The following are in the parish of Edubasto.n : - St. Bartholomew's, the pari.li church of Edgbaston, whs rebuilt in 1810, and is stone building in the Early English

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-tyle, consisting of a nave and one aisle, and lias an organ gallery at the west end, a porch, with a short square tower with four pinnacles: the aide was added in 1857; there are four benutiful stained windows at the east end, one of which was presented by the Rev. Isaac Spoon, r, the vicar, 1 the others by members of the congregation : there are monuments to the Calthorpe family in this church. ..gister dates from the year 16*0. The living is a vicarage, yearly value £542, in the gift of Lord Calthorpe, and held since 1848 by the Rev. Isaac Spooner, M.A. of Clare College, Cambridge.

St. George's, in Calthorpe road, is a stone structure: it consists of chancel, nave and aisles. The register dates from the year 1838. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of Lord Calthorpe, yearly value £900, and held lege, Oxford.

St. Augustine's church, St. Augustine's road, Haglev road, is a Gothic stone structure with open timber roof, consisting of chancel, nave, and aisles, with good chancel and west end windows: the tower with spire, which mea- £4,000 : the chancel Is beautifully decorated and the east window filled with stained glass. The church was erected by dates from the year 1868. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £500, In the giftof the Bishop of Worcester,

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and held since 1868 by the Rev. John M.A. of St. John's College. Cambridge.

St. James's church, ' Charlotte road, Kdgbaston, con- secrated in 1852, is from the designs of Mr. Teuton, erected at a cost of about £6,000 ; it is in the Decorated style, of a cruciform shape, with a tower, and, standing on rising ground, forms a prominent object from the surround- ing district. The register dates from the year 1852. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £230, in the gift of Lord Calthorpe, and held since 1852 bv the Rev. Philip Browne. M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The following arc in the parish of Aston : - St. Matthew's, Duddeston-cum-Nechells, in Great Lister street, is of red brick and stone; it was erected in 1840, and will seat 1,216 persons; it has chancel, in which is a large stained window, nave, galleries and ortrau loft, with an ornamental roof ; square tower with stone spire and containing 1 bell. The register dates from the year gift of five trustees, and held since 1858 by the Rev. James Hamer Scowcroft, m.a. of Magdalene College, Cambridge.

St. Clement's, Nechells 1'ark road, erected in 1858, is Gothic, of brick and stone, ami consists of chancel, nave and aisles, with bell-cot containing 1 bell ; there are 850 sittings, 450 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1859. The living is n vicarage, yearly value £'W0, in the gilt of the vicar of St. Matthew's, and held since 1879 by the Rev. James Thomas Butlin, b.a. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

St. Catherine's, Scholefield street, was formed from St. Clement's district in 1879 : it is in the Gothic style and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and transepts. The register dates from the year 1879. The living Is a vicarage, yearly value £104, in the gift of the Birmingham trustees, and held By the Rev. Thomas Harry Nock, M.A. of St. John's College. Cambridge, the first incumbent.

St. Silas' church, Church street, Lozells, Aston Manor, is a Gothic cruciform brick edifice, having chancel, nave, The register date*fromtheyearl845. The living is a vicarage, vearly value £300, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1867 "by the Rev. Charles Gardiner Baskerrille, M.A. of Caius College, Cambridge.

St. Andrew's, Bordesley, standing on an eminence, in St. Andrew's road, adjoining Garrison lane and Lower Dart- mouth street, Bordesley, was built in 1846, by the Birming- hsm Church Building* Society, on land given by Messrs. Robins: it cost £5,000, and has chancel, nave, north aisle, tower and spire. The register dates from the year 1846. The living is a vicarage, yearlv value £320, in the gift, alternately, of the Bishop of Worcester and five trustees, and held since 1867 by the Rev. John Williamson, m.a. of Trinity College, Cambridge.

St. Lawrence church, Dartmouth street, is a Gothic building of red brick with stone facings ; the tower is in the Norman style, erected in 1868, and contains 1 bell : the church consists of chancel, nave, with five Pointed arches supported on double iron pillars, which connect it with the aisles : an organ has been erected : there arc sittings for 740 persons. 400 of which are free. This is one of the churches erected from the munificent grant made by- Miss Rvland to Birmingham for the purpose of building

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is a vicarage, yearly value £320, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held by the Rev. John Frederick Martin Whish, b.a. of Caius College, Cambridge.

St. Anne's church, Cato street, Duddeston, was erected consisting of chancel, nave and aisles; the galleries are sup- ported on nine iron columns, with open gable roof, having a free. The register dates from the year 1869. The living it a vicarage, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcester, and held since 1873 by the Rev. Thomas James Haworth, m.a. of Clare College, Cambridge.

St. James's church, Great Brook street. Ashted row, was originally the dwelling-house of Dr. Ash, and converted into a chapel in 1789. The register dates from the year gift of trustees, and held since 1874 bv the Rev. Henry Cecil Phelps, m.a. of Queen's College. Oxford.

The church of St. Mary, Aston road north, consecrated in 1863, is a fine stone and brick building in the Decorated Gothic style, and consists of chancel, nave, aisles and vestry chamber ; there is the foundation for a spire : three hand- some stained windows were placed in the chance) by the late Josiah Robins esq. of this town, in memory of members of his family ; there is a lectern, given by Edward Evans, of Aston Brook Mills, in memory of his wife. There is a small organ and there are 750 sittings, one-half being free. The register dates from the year 186!). The living is a per- petual curacy, yearly value £300, In the gift of trustees, and held since 1865 by the Rev. Frederick Smith, m.a. of St. John's College, Cambridge.

St. John the Baptist's chapel, High street, Deri tend, in the parish of Aston, was founded in 1381, and was one of the first results of the teaching of John Wycliffe, and remark- able as being independent of the mother church at Aston and the living being m the gift of the inhabitants of Deritend and Bordesley ; the present brick building was built in 1735, and has a sq'uare tower with 8 bells. The register date* from the year 1700. The living is a chaplaincy, yearly value £319, in the gift of the inhabitants by public voting, and held since 1870 by the Rev.William Collins Badger.M.A. of Queens' College, Cambridge. Near this church there are handsome National schools for boys, girls and infants.

The church of St. Alban the Martyr, Bordesley, is situate in Leopold street, and was opened in the year 1871 : it is a plain brick building in the Pointed style, and consists of chancel, nave and vestries : there are sittings for 400 people, all free and unappropriated. The living is a per- petual curacy, yearly value £150, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1871 by tbe Rev. James Samuel Pollock, m.a. of Trinity College, Dublin.

St. "Patrick's, Highgate street, is a brick building, and in connection with St. Alban's.

Holy Trinity, at Camp hill, Bordesley, is in the Perpen- dicular style of King's College chapel, Cambridge, built of Bath stone, by Francis Goodwin, in 1820, and completed in George Foggo, which is a copy of a picture by Murillo, re- presents Christ at the Pool of Bethesda ; at the east end, over the altar-piece, is a beautiful rose window, representing the Apostles and Evangelists; and there are two memorial stained windows, at the east end, illustrating the principal events in the life of Our Lord; on the south side, are three, the subjects of which are Tbe Resurrection. The Ascension, and Our Saviour in the character of The Good Shepherd ; the sittings are 1.500, two-thirds of which, including tbe whole of the galleries, are free. The register dates from the vear 1823. The living is a vicarage, value £300 nominal, In the gift ol" trustees, and held since 1874 by the Rev. Richard William Enraght, b.a. of Trinity College, Dublin.

Christ Church, Sparkbrook, was consecrated in the year 1867, and is a Gothic stone building consisting of chancel, nave, and aisles, with spire : there is a very fine stone pulpit and an organ, tbe gift of Samuel Briggs, esq. : there are sittings for about 900, half being free. The register dates from the year 1868. The living is a perpetual curacy, yearly value £350, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1867 by the Rev. George Tonge, m.a. of Lincoln College,

St. Saviour's church, Villa street, Hockley, i» a Gothic brick building, consecrated 1st of May, 1874 : it consists of chancel, nave, apse (the three eastern windows of which are stained) and aisles separated from the nave on either side by five arches, resting opon stone pillars with carved capitals : at the western end is a tower and spire rising to a height of 132 feet: the seats are ol polMied deal and are cushioned throughout; they are all free, and will hold 600 persons. The pulpit, of Bath stone, and tbe font, of Caen stone, are richly carved, the latter being the

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-rift of Peter Ho!lins, esq. of this town. The communion table, rails and chair*, are of oak, beautifully carved. The vicarage, in the gift of trustees, and held since 1874 by the Rev.Mattbew Parker, of Queen's University, Ireland and St. Bees, who resides at Handsworth.

All Saints is an iron church situated in Cooksey road, Small heath, in a populous and growing neighbourhood : the district was made into an ecclesiastical parish in 1878 and a church is about to be erected. The living is a vicar- age of the yearly value of £150, in the gift of trustees, and

held by the Rev. George Fenwick Brown Cross, m.a. of Christ's College, Cambridge.

The Catholics have several places of worship in this town. The Catholic Cathedral is a noble Gothic structure, dedicated to St. Chad, who was Bishop of Lichfield in the seventh century; it stands at the junction of Shadwell street and Bath street, and is of red brick with stone facings and drawings. The west end of the church of St. Elizabeth in Marburg seems to have given the idea of the west end of this: the interior height is 75 feet. The nave is divided from the aisles by 12 clusters of pillars - six on each side - from the capitals of which a series of Pointed arches spring com- pletely up to the roof, without any break for a triforium or clerestory, thus forming the loftiest range of arches in the kingdom. A handsome screen, surmounted by the Holy Rood, divides the choir from the nave, and a similar screen, but of a richer description, partitions off the Lady Chapel from the top of the north aisle. The windows in the choir and down the aisles, with the exception of those in the tran- septs, are long lancets, divided each into two bays ; while the west window and the windows of the transepts are dis- tributed each into six compartments, affording great facility for the introduction of stained glass. Some good specimens of this description are already to be found in the choir, reprwnting ancient Saxon saints: ;ln the Lady Chapel -be Blessed Virt»in stands in Glorv, between St. Cuth- bert and St. Chad, and in the baptistery St. James, St. Thomas and St. Patrick are accompanied by groups the leading features of their history : the Jow represents, In beautiful groups, the life of St. Thomas of Canterbury, in honour of Canon Thomas . late of this cathedral : the northern window, is the larger of the two, is a magnificent expo- sition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, one compartment representing Pope Pius IX. surrounded by cardinals and bishops drawing up the definition : three lights of one side represent all the types of this doctrine contained in the Old Law, and the three lights on the other side their fulfilment in the New : the beauty of the groups, the har- mony of colour, the lightness of the general effect, the num- ber of texts of Scripture introduced, and the beading round the group of figures, which are all enclosed in Vesica-formed glories, make this window a masterpiece: it is a memorial in honour of the late John Hard man, esq. of this town, a great benefactor of the cathedral; among the antiquities may be mentioned the pulpit, an elaborate carving in oak of the sixteenth century, representing the four Doctors of the Latin Church - St. Jerome, with the lion's foot and thorn; St. Gregory the Great; St. Augustine, with the heart; and St. Ambrose - an episcopal throne and stalls of the fifteenth century, ami a brass lectern of the same period : the pulpit is from the church of St. Gertrude at Louvain ; the throne and stalls from the church of St. Maria in Capitolio at Cologne ; the lectern, which was presented by the late John Hard man, esq. is of splendid Gothic style, and are of Flemish or German workmanship: in 1870 a fine set of stations were erected on the walls, which consist of ons of Our Lord's painful journey from to Calvary; thy are in bold relief and colored to tints ; they were cast by De Vriendt, of Antwerp : be- nesth the cathedral is a crypt, or undercrypt, dedicated to St. Peter, and divided into separate chantries, which subserve the double purpose of oratories and burial places for the dead : besides the principal chantry or chapel, under which is a spacious vault for the clergy, four others are already fitted op, one (St. John the Evangelist) for Mr. Hardman's family ; another (St. James) for Mr. Waring's; the third (St. John the Baptist) for Mr. Poncia ; and the fourth for Mr. Fletcher's family - there is mass in these chantries on the anniversaries, and public service in the crypt once or twice every week.

The Oratory (Catholic), in the Hagley road, a hand- some and commodious building, in the Italian style, erected in 1851 , i* the residence of several priests, who officiate at the church attached to it and conduct a school for toys of the upper classes, which ia included within its precincts; the superior is His Eminence Cardinal Newman, sad the prefect of the school, Rev. John Norris. St. Peter's Catholic church is in St. Peter's place, Broad

street. Other Catholic churches are : St. Mary's Brougham street, St. Michael's in Moor, street (formerly Dr. Priestley's chapel), St. Anne's, Alcester street, Si. Joseph's, Thimble Mill lane, St. Catherine's, of Sienna, Horsefair; at Erdington, at Oscott Old College, and Hagley road, Edgbaston. There is a Convent of Our Lady at Hunter's lane, Handsworth.

Tliere is a Hebrew synagogue in Blucher street, erected in

The Baptists have tnnnv chapels in Birmingham. Cannon Street chapel was founded in 1738, and rebuilt iu 180G. Mount Zion, Graham street, built in 1823, ia an octagon struc- ture in the Doric stvle, capable of holding 2,500 persons : it was repaired In 187G. The one in Heneage street is a large brick building, with stuccoed front, and will accommodate COO persons. The Circus chapel, Bradford street, previous to 1848 was used, as its name implies, as a circus ; it was then purchased by the Baptist denomination ; the Rev. \\ . Landcls was the first minister, and was succeeded by the Rev. J.J. Brown, late of Reading, who, with an important section of the church and congrega- tion, erected Wyclifi'e church, a handsome stone structure in the Gothic style, with lofty spire, in Bristol street, which was opened at the Midsummer of 1801 : after Mr. Brown's retirement the Rev. J. P. Barnett, of Penzance, sncceeded to the pastorate of the Circus chapel, and at the end of twelve months the building underwent very extensive altera- tions, at a cost of nearly £1,000. There arc other chapel* in Bond street, Priestley road, and Great King street, and

one (called Christ Church) at the Six ways, Victoria road, Aston park. The General " bard street.

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The Unitarians have a meeting-house in Old Meeting street, founded in the reign of William III. and rebuilt in 1791. The church of the Messiah, in Broad street, was built bv the Unitarian congregatiou formerly worshipping in opened in January, 1802, and has 700 sittings for the congregation, and 250 for the school children ; the spire is lofty and graceful, and the entrance exceedingly rich ;. there j are several schools in connection with this chapel.

Thereare several Congregational chapels : the one in Cartas lane was founded in 174S, but rebuilt in 1819, during the

Eastorate of the Rev. John Angell James, aud is capable of olding 1,750 persons. Ebenezer chapel, Steelhouse lane, I was built in 1817; it has a handsome front, aud contains 1 ,200 sittings. Highbury chapel, in Graham street, erected in 1844, seats 1,300 ; Palmer Street chapel was built about 1845 by the Carr's lane congregation, and contaius 450 sittings. The Lozells chapel, Wheeler street, is a very commodious edifice in the Italian style, and seats 1,200 persons ; it was opened in 180:). A handsome chapel, of red brick with stone facings, erected in Saltley road on I the original site in 1808. provides double the former accom- modation. The chapel in Francis rood, Edgbaston, is a handsome Gothic structure with lofty and elegant spire; it was built by public subscription ; it is capable of seating 1,000 persons. The chapel in St. Andrew's street was built In 1876 by the Palmer Street congregation. There is also a chapel in Bordesiey street.

The Society of Friends have a large meeting-house in Bull street, erected of red brick with stone dressings in 1859, which is capable of seating 800 persons. A commodious school-room is attached.

The Wesleyan Methodists have five circuits in Birming- ham ; to the first circuit belong the chapels in Little Cherry street, Moseley road, Inge street and Gullet ; to Belmont row circuit belotig those in Belmont row, Bradford street, Bloomsbury, Small heath, Castle Bromwich, and Acock's Green ; to New Town row circuit, those in New Town row, Nechells green, Lichfield road. Erdington, Whitacre, Bodymoor heath, and Curdwortn, Water Orton, Tyburn and Kingsbury ; to the fourth circuit belong Wesley chapel, Constitution hill, Aston Villa chapel, Summer Hifl chapel, Nineveh chapel and New John street west; to the Isling- ton circuit belong St. Martin's street, Harboroe, Quinton and Sclly Oak chapels, and several mission rooms.

The Primitive Methodists have several chapels. The one In Whitmore street, Hockley hill, is a brick building opened on the 4th December, 1876; there is a small gallery across one end ; there are seats of polished deal for 400 persons: the building was erected at a cost of £2,200, and is supported by voluntary contributions.

The United Methodists have n chapel in Bath street. The New Connexion Methodists have h chapel in Unett street. The English Presbyterians have handsome churches in Broad street and New John street west. Trinity Tabernacle, on the Parade, is also for High Calvinistic doctrines. The Church of The Saviour ia in Edward street, Parade, and is founded on the principle of community of

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Christian work, and not agreement in creed, at tbe basis] of a Christian church. The Welsh Calvinistic chapel ia in Hockley hill.

The Birmingham General Cemetery, IckntettStreet east, wasop.ned in 183d; it has about acres of land, with a chapel in the centre. The Church of England Cemetery, j in Wni>tone lane, was opened in 1848, and lau about nine RCrea of land ; in the grounds i* a handsome ehurch (St. Michael), with a tower and spire, and having a painted j window of three light*, given by William Chance, esq. The Birmingham Borough Cemetery, at Witton, was conse- crated and opened on the 27th May, 1863; it comprises 105 acres : trOy-three of which are consecrated for the use of the Chnrch'of England, and about 36 nrres set apart

for Protestant Dissenter*, and 12 acres for Catholics : the Jews have a portion of the land on the north-east, and have built a chapel thereon : the interments up to the present period are upwards of 98,000.

Education is well provided for in Birmingham; and a Society has been formed to ascertain tbe state of education among the poorer classes, and to provide, by voluntary subscriptions, for the payment of all or part of the school fees, where needful, and to assist, or to eTect, schools wherever such work is required. Under the "Elotnentary Education Act, 1870," Birmingham has elected I a School Board, consisting of a chairman and vice-chair- 1 man, and thirteen other members. The Board have several schools in tbe town. Three colleges, branches of the University of London, provide for superior instruction, and there au* four Grammar schools for classic*. Teachers of every kind are to be found in the town, nnd there are special shools ot medicine, law, engineering, arts, and design.

QuBKS'a Cor.LBfiB was founded in the rear 1848, through i - xertinns of the late William Sands Cox, p.r.s. and was incorporated by Act of Parliament in 1807: the building is an imposing Gothic structure, situate in Paradise street, opposite the Town Hall ; it has three departments: 1. Theology; 3. M.dicine; 3. Arts. The d.c.l., M.B., ami m.d. in tbe University of London, and for the diploma* of the Royal College of" Siirtreons and the Society of Apothecaries. Theological students who hare 1 the collecre certificate are allowed by the Univer- Durbam to proceed to the examinations for tbe b.a. - Hffcr a residence cd only one year. The students wear

Connected with the l of human and comparative anatomy, 1 preparations, to which the student* are admitted. The library contains upwards ot 5,000 volume*. The college chapel was consecrated in 1844 by the Lord Bishop of Worcester. Medals are annually given by the proftasari, on n public examination of pro- ficiency in the respective departments.

Tbe Grammar School of King Edward VI. in New street, is a splendid Gothic pile, of Derbyshire stone, 174 feet wide, 00 feet high, and 135 feet deep in the flanks, and 'cost £40,000: it is now governed under tbe provisions of a scheme by 27 governors, jlo be gradually reduced to 31, three of whom are nominated by the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, and one nominated by the teachers of both sexes in the schools ; eight repre- sentative governors are appointed by the Town Council of Birmingham, and nine co-optative governors are appointed by the governors by statute : there arc to be a High school for boys, a Middle school for boys, an Upper school for girla, and four or more Lower schools for boys and girls : tbe governors have the appoirttmeut and removal of the head masters St mistresses of all the schools, and In the High school for boys, the Middle sdtool for boys, and Upper school for girls the head master or mistress has the power of appointing or removing tbe under masters and teachers : the head masters of the High and Middle schools roust be graduates of a university In the United Kingdom ; it is not necessary that any master shall be in holy orders, and no master shall hold any benefice with the cure of souls : there is an annual exhibition under the James Foundation of £50 at Oxford or Cambridge, and the governors may assign £400 yearly for other exhibitions, tenable at either of the same universities, and also £200 yrarlv, tenable at any other university or otber place of higher education. The yearly income is about £20,000 : the head master of the High school is tbe Rev. Albert Richard Vardv, m.a. and the head master of the Middle school is the Rev. Egerton Francis Mead MacCarthy, a. a.

Tbe Blue Coat School, which was built in 1724, and en- larged in 1784, k in St. Philip's church varti .providing for the maiutenance of 100 boys and 100 girls. The Protestant Dissenters have a Foundation Charity School, situated In

Graham street, for girls, established in 1760 ; tbe school holds from 40 to 60 girls, who are educated and trained for domestic service and provided for up to the age of fifteen years. The Society of Friends' Priory School, Upper Priory, is a handsome brick building, erected In 1800, at a coat of up- wards of £2,000: this school was established for the in- struction of young women in reading, writing, and sewing.

St. Mary's Catholic College, Oscott, Is a spacious and noble establishment, in the Gothic style, built by the Right : gravelly hill, commanding an extensive view. There are two public libraries ; the theological one is very extensive, and contains many rare works ; it was much added to by the , late Cardinal Wiseman. The corridors arc hung with paint- ings of sacred subjects by old masters, nearly all of which were given by the late Earl of Shrewsbury. Tbe chapel is

highly" decorated and has several interesting memorial windows, and a tide chapel has been added in memory of the former president, the Rev. Henry Weedall, d.d. This college is in connection with the London University.

Spring Hill College, Moseley Wake green, Yardley, has three professors, and is arranged to educate about thirty-six students for the ministry among the Congregational de-

A College, founded and endowed by Sir J. Mason, has been erected in Edmund street, near the Town Hall.

The Dear and Dumb Asylum U in the Church road, Edg- children ; the office* are at City Chamt>era, 02 New street. St. Paul's Hranch Mixed Schools, in Legge lane, were number of scholars, about 280. The Jews have a school in Ellis street. There are several National schools for beys, and girls, Lancastcrian, Catholic, Congregational and Wesley an, Ragged aud Industrial, and Sunday and Infant

Tbe Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, Haitlev road, has nine masters. The'Birmingham School Board school, fronting in Bristol ia situate between Little Bow street and infants ; It is built of red " it has a lofty tower, which contains a bell : spacious and well ventilated: there is also a ground, which is paved with avphalte.

The Board school, Osier street, lekrdeM Port read, is a plain red brick building with stone dressings, built at a cost girls, and 250 Infants.

In Dartmouth street there are two Board schools, one for boys and girls and the other f

ick, with stone ahatmcnts :

Jenkins street, St street, Lower Wii south, Smith street, NeJaon street, Norton street. Moscley road, Fox street, Brookfields, Summer lane, Oosella street, Little Green lane, Hutton street, Neehells, Dudley road, Spring hill and Unett street (half- time). Board schools arc also in course of erection at Dixon road, Small heath and Montgomery street, Small heath and Hope street, giving accommodation lor 26,636 children.

The town of Birmingham Is above two miles lt>ng, and nearly the same In breadth. There are very few ancient buildings. The chief streets are New street", High street, Bull street. Broad street, Dhzbetb, Snow hill, and Dale end. There was formerly in the town an hospital dedi- cated to St. Thomas the Apostle, of wldch there are no existing remains; and a Guild of tbe Holy Cross was the foundation of the Grammar School of King "Edward VI.

The statue of Sir Robert Peel, In bronae, Is by Mr. Peter llollins, a Birmingham sculptor, and was cast by Messrs. Elkiugton and Mason; it Is situated at the top of New street, near the Town Hall; the inauguration took place- is a bronze statue of Nelson, executed by Wentmacott. at At the Five ways an clegnnt statue has.

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been erected to perpetuate the philanthropist Joseph Sturge.

Tbe memorial statue of the Prince Consort, for which a commission was given to Mr. Foley, r.a. was unveiled on Thursday, April 33rd, 1808, by the mayor: it ia considered an excellent likenesa, and represents the Prince in the

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standing, holding; a pair of compass** In the right hand, while the left is resting on the cylinder of an engine. The late Mr. Alexander Mnnro was the sculptor ; the statue was inaugurated on the 2nd October, 1B68.

A white marble !»tatoe of Dr. Priesrlcy stands on the Congreve street side of the Town Hall : Dr. Priestley is represented in the art of making the experiment, in Lord Shelburne's cant en at Calne, which led to his discovery of oxygen : in his right hand he holds a lens, and in his left a mite, placed in a small vessel containing mercury, the latter resting on a rustic pedestal : the statue is the work ol Mr. Alexander W. V\ illiamson, and was provided by public subscription : it was unveiled by Professor Huxley on the 1st of August, 1874, the centenary of the discovery ol

central entrance; the building contains ninety various sixes, for the different departments of usiness : there are four entrances for the public

Corporation business : there are four entrances besides the centre one, which is for the use of tl for state occasions : here will be the offices of the Borough Surveyor, Town Clerk and Borough Treasurer, with their subordinate*; nlao for the Health Department, Weights & Measures, and for the gas and water business ol the corporation : the central entrance hall is approached by a flight of steps under the portico in the Ann street front, with an inner flight leading up to the ground floor level : opposite this an d under the dome U the main staircase, 33 feet square, having marble columns to support the landing above, and a central flight of steps with marble handrail and balusters: the principal corridor, 9 feet wide, runs from east to west through the building on each floor, and meets corridors at right angles to it rnnnlng north and south through the wings : the first or principal floor contains the reception rooms ; these rooms occupy the* height of two stories of the smaller rooms, as does also the conncil cham- ber: the east nnd west reception rooms are 64 feet* by 30 feet : the central one, separated only from the western by an open screen of marble columns, Is 30 feet souare : the extreme height of these rooms is 30 feet : in the western f tlx- Temple of J u pi tor Stator at portion of the principal floor is the council chamber ; the

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There is a statae of Thomas Attwood, Birmingham Political Union, faring New street.

The Town Hall, situated in Paradise street, is a mag- niflcent building, in the Corinthian style ; the exterior has - row of detached columns, thirty-six feet in height, along each of the sides and fronts, eight columns occupying each of the front*, and thirteen each of the sides, the columns being copied from thus*

Rome: a lofty pediment swrmounts the columns of the chief front ; tee body of the building is pierced with lofty windows opposite the spaces between the columns; the whole edifice rests upon a resticnted basement above -0 feet high, having windows and doorways : the greater part of the interior is occupied by the great hall, nearly 150 feet long by 65 feet in height and width ; the cost of the building Messrs. Hanson and Welch, nnd is the property of thet'orpo- ratiou, who grant the use of it for public meetings, lectures and concerts. The hall, inclusive of the orchestra, will seat the orchestra, is the organ, a faanous instrument, one of the largest in the world ; it ia the property of tin- Governors of the General Hospital, and was built for ihem by Mr. William ows are very large, and contain 300 square teet of sur- ' three tens weight is required to give the necessary pressure : there are four sets or rows of keva, extending fram CC to F in alt, 54 notes; the fourth row' of keys ia called the combination organ, upon which, by mean 3 of "an ingenious contrivance, can be played any stop or stops out «f the chair or *tvell. without interfering with their pre- vious arrangement : the trackers are of very great length, and, if laid oat in a straight line, would reach above five the pedal organ extends from CCC to F, two octaves I five notes; there are 19 steps in the great organ, lOin the 9 in the choir, 25 in the combination. 15 in the pedal , and 5 coupler* ; there are 7 composition pedals ; the t metal pipe, standing in front of the organ, is 35 teet long, and 5 feet 3 inches in circumference; the rood pipe is 12 feet in circumference, and its interior seat Is «4 cubic feet; there are 4,119 pipes in the the timber alone used in this instrument weighs between 20 and 30 tons , and the metal and other materials employed raise it to a total weight of at least 40 tons: a ? on the organ takes place every Saturday after- o'clock ; admission one shilling to 1 and 6d. floor : In the ball the grand triennial held, the proceeds of which are apjilied in aid of the General Hospital.

The Birmingham new municipal buildings are near the Town ball : they were commenced in the spring of 1874 and the foundation stone was laid on the 17th of June by J. Chamberlain, Esq. mayor: the principal or Ann street

behind them is a serai-circular screen of marble columns, dividing the council chamber from the spectators' gallery, thus giving the chamber the form of a horse shoe : adjacent to the council chamber are spacious ante-rooms and cloak rooms, and also a large retiring room for the use of coun- cillors. The original contract for the building was £84,120, but extensions have been made on the east side to accom- modate the gas and water departments, and on the west side increased accommodation for the council since the sign- ing of the contract, so that, when the fittings are in, the cost, will probably be £120,000. The contractors are Messrs. Barndey Sc Sons, of Birmingham ; Mr. Ycoville Thomason, of Birmingham, is the architect.

The Exchange buildings were erected from the designs of Mr. Edward Holmes, and stand at the junction of New street and Stephenson place, on a site near the Free Grammar school and have a frontage of 63 feet towards the former and 180 feet towarda the latter thoroughfare: the walls are fac-d with Hollington stone, with Bath, Bromsgrove, and Anstoae stone to give relief: the style is Gothic, partaking of a Continental character, the main front having a central tower (100 feet high) over the entrance to the Exchange, and end wings, which rise one storey above the other portion of the front ; the upper wing is carried the same height along the New street front ; at the angle formed by the junction of New street and Stephenson place is a turret, rising 45 feet above the main cornice: the buililings comprise, on vestibule from Stephenson place, enriched by carv- polished Aberdeen granite columns ; a Chamber of with committee aad ante-rooms attached; three large shops facing New street, and seven shops facing Stephenson place. The Exchange is divided by two rows of clustered iron columns and arches; the spaudrels of the arches and the caps of the columns are enriched with wrought-iron beaten foliage: on the first floor is the assembly-room, 70 feet by 49 feet, over the Exchange, with refreshment, smoking, card, and retiring rooms ; at one end of the assembly-room is an orchestra : on a mezzanine floor, under the refreshment and smoking rooms, are spacious diniugand coffee rooms: the kitchen offices in connection with this part arc placed a U he top of the building: a lift communicates with the kitchen, the various pantries nnd . serving rooms, and the cellars : on the third floor, occupy* front is 296 feet in length, that to Congreve street 122 feet, I Ing the whole of the New street frontage, is a large and and to Eden place, 153 feet: the height from the ground lofty room, now used as a billiard -room, with dressing and to the top of the main cornice is 65 feet, the pediment over ante-rooms: several suites of offices are provided on each the central entrance rises to a height of 90 feet, the height floor, with commodious lavatories attached : there are two to the top of flnial of dome Is 162 feet: the plinths are of I shops in New street, 50 feet long by 16 feet; also three floors Spinkwell stone, the walling of Wrexham and Coxbench, of offices, containing seven offices each, with a large stair* the more exposed portions are of Darley Dale stone : the dome is covered with lend : the style of the building is Cuutfrieal, th« columns See. in the upper portions of the ele- vations having the general proportions of the Corinthian order, bat with varied and original details: the carved capitals are of varied design, and the main frieze is carved throughout the entire length of the two principal fronts : the pediments contain sculptured groups representing manufactures, commerce, literature, arts and sciences, ami that te the central one Britannia rewarding the Birmingham

case separate from the other portion of the building: the front in New street and side next to the Grammar school, are faeed with Hollington stone : fire-proof vaults occupy the greater portion of the basement : the principal rooms aud the shops are warmed and ventilated by Van Heckc's system, in 1878 the Exchange buildings were greatly en- larged by adding a wing to the New street front, which is a great improvement to the buildings and connects the facade with the Grammar school. The Exchange Hail lias been enlarged to 70 feet by 70 feet, and many other improve-

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i and Midland Institute is a noble pile of buildings, situated in Ratcliff place, Paradise street, near the Town Hall: it is now undergoing considerable alteration, and when the building is completed it will be one of the finest educational institutions in the country ; it is to con- tain a large lecture theatre in addition to the present one, news and class rooms, and the laboratory is to be enlarged : it is governed by a president, two vice-presidents, treasurer, and council of governors: the first stone was laid by the late Prince Consort, November 21st, 1855.

The Free Libraries Act was adopted in 1855, and the Central Free Library built on land adjoining the Midland Institute, in Ratcliffe place : this was totally destroyed by fire in January, 1879, few of the works being saved ; of the more valuable works destroved may be mentioned the Cer- vantes collection, presented by William Bragge, esq. and the Staunton and Shakespeare collections : it contains a Refer- ence Library* (44 ,500 vols.), a Central Lending Library (17,543 vols.) ; a temporary Central News room is provided at the Council house in Ann street; there are branch lending libraries and news moms at Constitution Hill (0.050 and Adderley Park. (2,800 vols.), the whole being supported by a penny rate, which produces about £5,600 yearly : admission is free to the Lending Libraries for persons' having residence or occupation iu the borough, and to the reference department, news rooms and art gallery for all comers.

The Birmingham, or Old, Library, founded In 1779, and greatly enlarged by the care of Dr. Priestley, Is in Union street, and contains upwards of 50,000 volumes in all branches of literature; there are well-appointed news rooms, supplied with London, provincial and continental papers, and all the principal magazines and reviews. The Law Library is at Wellington passage, 30 Bennett's hill. 'There is a library in Queen's College, Paradise street. Most of the Sunday schools have libraries.

the Bull ring : with the increase of population, the trade in grain became of great importance, and it was felt necessary that the business should be carried on in a building fitted up with the requisite conveniences: a joint-stock company, with a capital of £0,050, was founded, and the present Corn Exchange was opened for business October 28th, 1847 : in seven years from that date the trade had so much increased as to render it necessary to afford more accommodation ; the capital was increased to £14,000, additional land was purchased, and the Exchange was enlarged. The corn market is held on Tuesday and Thursday, but the latter is the principal market day, when there is a large attendance.

The Grocery Exchange Limited, office, 25 Carr's lane, one of the largest and most influential in the provinces, also bold their meetings here on Wednesdays, which are attended by representatives of some of the leading firms in London and the provinces.

The iron masters' quarterly meetings are held on the second Thursday in January, April, July and October.

The Birmingham Workhouse, in the Dudley road, is an extensive range of buildings, in the Elizabethan style, the site occupying nearly 15 acres : it was opened in 1852, and I can hold 2,000 paupers, with large schools for girls {and boys: attached is a chapel, having several hand- some stained windows. The parochial offices are in Paradise street; and the Borough of Birmingham Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Lodge road, was opened in 1850, erected for 300 patients and since enlarged to accommodate 632 ; It is an extensive building, in the Early Tudor style, and the grounds consist of about 50 acres.

The County Court is in Waterloo street ; the following places are within itsjurisdiction : - Adderley Park I Gib Heath AlcesterLanes End Gravellv H ill

The Att Gallery which was attached to the libraries in Ratcllfi' place is at present closed for enlargement, the con- tents having been meanwhile removed to Aston hall. The collection, besides a large number of pictures, includes portraits of Birmingham notabilities, ana specimens of art workmanship in glass and metal, relating to the trade of the town.

Small Arms Museum. - A valuable gift was made to the town of Birmingham by the transfer, in August, 1876, to the Corporation of the Museum of Arms, established by the Guardians of the Birmingham Proof House, in illustration of the history of the gun trade : the nucleus of the collec- tion was formed by an Italian gentleman, the Cavaliere Callandra, who spent 20 years in collecting specimens in all parts of the world, and on his death it passed into the hands of an English gentleman, from whom it was ulti- mately purchased by the guardians of the Birmingham Proof House: important additions have since been made to it, and it is now regarded as the most valuable historical collection of small arms extant, furnishing a complete illus- tration of the gun manufacture, from the first invention ot firearms, in the 15th century, down to the present time. The collection is at present in Aston hall during the rebuilding Of the museum in Paradise street.

The Curzon Exhibition Hall, In Suffolk street, comprises a lofty hall, 103 feet 6 inches long and 91 feet wide, with two shops on each side of the principal entrance : the style is Free Gothic; the walls are of plain brickwork, relieved with coloured bricks and stone cornices and columns : the hall was built for the National Dog Show, which is held annually at Birmingham at the same tirrfe as the Cattle and Poultry Shows, but was so constructed as to be suitable for coucerts, theatrical or equestrian entertainments and public meetings, and will accommodate upwards of 3,000 persons : it has a stage 44 feet deep, and the whole width of the hail, the proscenium being 31 feet 8 inches In the clear.

The Market Hnll, built In 1833, of Bath stone, with fronts In High street and Worcester street, has a covered area of 39,411 square feet; it contains a handsome fountain. The fish market, corner of Bell street, facing the Bull ring, was erected in 1870. The horse, cattle, pig, hay, straw and vege- table market* are held in Smithfleld ; the carcase market in Jamaica row. The principal market days are Monday, Tues- day and Thursday ; vegetable market, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday ; for sheep and pigs, Tuesday and Thursday ; for horses, Friday. The hay and straw market is held on Monday and Friday; the hide, skin and fat market on Saturday. The Corn Exchange is in Carr's lane: for centuries the Corn market had been held in the open air, in

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The Court of Bankruptcy holden at Birmingham comprises the places within the district of the County Court of War- wickshire, holden at Birmingham, Atherstone, Tamworth, and Solihull, ami the County Court of Worcestershire, holden at Redditch.

The Public Offices and Lock-up are in Moor The Borough Gaol, on Winson green, erected in 1848, at a cost of about £100,000, is a spacious building, capable ot accommodating 500 prisoners. There are five police stations, and 3 sub-stations, the chief of which is in Moor street ; there are 520 police; likewise a fire brigade, supported by the Corporation.

The General Post Office, situate in Paradise street, is a building of bold classical design, and was opened on the 28 th

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r, 1873, the old office in New street being then rkied. The building wu constructed from the design* of Mr. William*, of Her Majesty's Office of Works; it is built upon a site opposite the Town Hall, principally of Hath stone, resting upon immense blocks of Cornish granite, many ot which weigh as much as four and five ton* each. Tiie principal riitranee is in Paradise street, where a doorway gives access to a lobby, in which there are doors leading to the different department*. On the left is a large room in which the stamp, post-office order, telegraph and registered letter busine** is transacted. A special counter on one side of the room is reserved for the registration of letters, and a seriee of desk'* is provided for the writing of telegrams. The mes- -asres are despatched by pneumatic tube to the office in Can- non street. The sorting room i« situated at the back of the 90 feet high, and has 7 windows at the sides, and a lantern light running the whole length of the iron roof. In this room ire arranged four long rows of sorting desks, with several table* in the centre of the room for opening and making up the mail bags. The bags, when ready for despatch, are dropped down a shoot into carts in Swallow street. Above the principal room in Paradise street are situated the offices of tbe Postmaster and hi* staff, and the Telegraph Engi- neer and his staff, with a fire-proof room for stamps, and complete lavatories : these room* are approached by a fiiuht of stone steps from the entrance lobby. The rapid fall of the ground in Hill street ha* been taken advantage of by the architect to give commodious offices oh the basement without the inconvenience of having them underground. A doorway in Swallow street leads into a passage, which runs tbe whole length of the building into Paradise street ; front this passage a number of apartments open out, and at the Paradise street end of tbe passage are the dwelling- rooms of the Post Office keeper. In the Public room of the building is a statue in Sicilian marble of Sir Rowland Hill, k.c.b.. d.c.l.. p.R.s. the originator of the penny postage, who was a native of Birmingham ; it is the work of Mr.

A collector and a large staff of officers of the Inland Revenue are at Waterloo street. There are Commissioners of Laud and Property Tax. The Assay Office is in Xewball street, for assaying and marking wrought gold and silver plate, and for receiving tbe duties thereon. The Gtin Barrel Proof House, where guns and pistols are vested and marked, was founded in 1813, and is in Banbury

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Tbe Water Works are in Lichfield road, Aston. Bir- mingham being at a great height above the level of the sea. tbe water supply to so lame a town is of great im- portance. When the Water Works were first established, tbe supply wa* derived from the river Tame, which then flowed through an entirely agricultural country; but owing to the increase of population, the opening out of new coalfields, and the erection of chemical works, the water* of this beautiful stream have, like most other surface streams in England, become contaminated, and although the water is still beautifully bright to look at, and has no great organic impurities, yet it contains salts which render this water at present unfit for domestic purposes; therefore it became necessary to find new sources, the principal of which are streams flowing through Barr, Wittou and Whifacre, and artesian wells have been sunk at Perry, Short Heath, King's Vale, Selly Oak, and in the red sandstone formation at Aston, from one of which tbe yield is about twenty million* of gallon* per week. The chief pumping stations are at Aston and Whitacre, where powerful engines raise the water about 260 feet to distributing reservoir* situated at Edgbaston, where a portion of the water is again raised by engine power to supplv the highest portion of Edgbaston. The WaterWork* have been purchased by the corporation, who are also the proprietors of the Gas undertaking, the Gas Works being situated at Saltley, Windsor *treet, Adderlev street, Fazeley street and West Brorawich, the chief offices being in the Minories, Old square.

Tbe Corporation baths are in Kent »treet, Northwood

The bead office of Lloyd's Banking Company, in Ann street, is a fine building of Wrexham stone, in the Italian style. They have several branches in the town.

Tbe offices of the Birmingham Banking Company Limited, m Bennett'* hill, are decorated with columns in the Corin- taian style. Tbe Birmiogbam Joint Stock Bank Limited,

4 Temple row west, was erected from the designs of J. A. Chatwin, P.R.l.n.A. ; the facade is of stone (in the Italian style), the banking room is very commodious, and lighted by a large glass dome in addition to the windows. The head office is in Temple Row, with branches at 1:26 Great Hampton street k 131 New street.

The Bank of England have a branch at 10 Bennett's hill. Messrs. Goode, Marr k Co.'s bank is at 3 Upper Priory. The National Provincial Bank or England, at 8 Bennett's bill. Birmingham and Midland Bank, New street. The Birmingham, Dudley and District Hanking Co. head office, 63 Colmore row ; branches at Hockley bill and Smethwick and the Staffordshire Joint Stock Bank, New street. The Worcester City and County Banking Co. Cherry street.

The Theatre Royal, in New street, is a large and fine building, with a stone front, founded in 1774, but rebuilt in restored at considerable expense : here, in 1810, W. C. Macready first appeared, in the character of Romeo, his father having been the lessee for several years.

Tbe Prince of Wale*** Theatre. Broad street, was built by Mr. J. Briggs, from the designs of Mr. James Cranston, theatrical performances; a spacious stage and proscenium were erected, and the various mechanical appliances neces- sary for tbe production of adi versified dramatic entertainment introduced. In 1866 it passed into the hands of Mr. James Rodger* (the present proprietor), who, at a cost of £5,000, had it entirely reconstructed : it bus seat* tor 3,500 per- sons ; it was again repaired and decorated in 1876. There are three large and well conducted music hall* - Day'* in Smallbrook street, the Birmingham Concert Hall in Colefthill street, and the London Museum tavern and Music hall in Digbeth.

Bingley Hall Skating Rinks, King Edward's place, occupy two bays of the building used for the Royal Agricultural Society's shows. Thev contain 2,160 superficial feet, and have cloak-rooms and lavatories, and waiting-rooms, sup- plied with daily papers, kc, and a spacious promenade for visitors ; Henry Green, manager.

The Botanical and Horticultural Society has a good garden at Edgbaston, and holds exhibitions. Meetings and exhibi- tions of the British and other National Associations are occasionally held in Birmingham, as a great centre of arts. The Royal Society of Artists holds an exhibition in the spring and autumn of each year In a commodious building in New street, erected for the purpose, In which works of modern art, and the contributions of local and other artists, are brought forward ; there Is also an Art-Union con- nected with the Society, which nnnually realise* a large sum, to be expended on work* of art : the »ociety has also a costume and life class open to students during the winter months, and courses of art lecture* are delivered to sub-

The Iron, Hardware, and Metal Trades' Pension Society (head office, 6 New Bridge street, Blackfriars, London e-c), tor affording permanent relief to deserving and necessitous member* of these trades, and to the widows of such persons, by granting to them pensions of twenty guineas a year, was established In 1843: the honorary secretary to the committee for Birmingham and district 1* Thomas Edgar Pemberton, esq., 156 Livery street.

The Club House of the Union club wa* formally opened on Monday, May 3rd, 1869: it is a handsome building in the Italian style, fronting Colmore row and New- hall street: the fronts are of stone from Mr. Deeley'a Pillough quarry in Derbyshire: the entrance, which is in Colmore row, is decorated with four massive columns with Corinthian capitals: on the ground floor is a spacious entrance hall and corridor, a dining-room, morning-room, luncheon -room, and the two first-named have richly panelled ceilings : the great staircase is divided Into three portions by stone columns, and lighted by triplet windows of large size : the first floor has a corridor extending the whole length of the building, leading to a drawing-room, library, billiard and other rooms : the cost was about £16,000.

Tbe Conservative Club occupies a temporary building in Union street, formerly used by the Midland Banking Co. The premises have been entirely re-arranged, and fitted up with all tbe attributes of a first-class dub, comprising club room, dining room and strangers' rooms, smokin) billiard room and the usual offices : the Right Hon. the I of Yarmouth is the president, and there are nearly 400 member*. The site for the club house Is in Temple row.

The charilahle institutions connected with the town are

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The General Hospital, Summer lane, 1* a noble Institu- tion for the relief of the poor inhabitants of the town and district : it is an extensive brick building, commenced in the vear 1766 and opened in 1770 ; additions hare since been In consequence of the progress of the science of hospital hygiene and the requirements of the town and district, the weekly board considered it necessary to partially re- construct the hospital, which work i* now completed. This has given an hospital containing 256 beds, with an average cubic space of 1,500 feet to each patient, with separate building for fever cases, a spacious out-patient department capable of receiving 1,000 out-patient* per day, extensive kitchens, and dormitories for the nurses. The total cost of the reconstruction was about £22,000. The hospital contains a magnificent painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, of Dr. Ash, an eminent physician, to whose exer- tions the establishment of the hospital is mainly to be attributed; there are also portraits of Mr. Joseph Moore, promoter and manager of the musical festivals; Mr. Freer, Mr. Joseph Hodgson, f.r.8. and Mr. H. Wood, formerly surgeons to the hospital ; and of the late Dr. James John- stone, senior consulting physician, and for many years the physician to the hospital; also of Dr. O. F. Evans, the late consulting physician, and Mr. D. W. Crorapton, con- salting surgeon; a portrait ot Mr. W. Sharp, for many years an active member of the committee, has been presented to the institution. There are also fine busts of the late Charles Lloyd, William Rolfe, George Barker, and J. W. Wbnteley, esquires, all of whom were benefactors to the institution. Dr. James Johnstone und Mr. D. W. Crorapton, for- merly senior surgeon, have presented the whole of their valuable collection of medical works in order to form the nucleus of a library for the hospital. The hospital is sup- ported by subscriptions, donations, legacies, by triennial collections from all places of worship in the town and district, and by funds arising from the triennial musical festivals, which are held in the Town Hall for four consecutive days, and conducted by one of the first musical conductors of the age. The next festival will be in 1879 : tho total amount of profits received from this source has been £108,852. The ordinary annual expenditure is about £12,200; the income from annual subscription*, and from a small invested property (which latter, including the interest from the accident fund, is £2,530 per annum), amounts to about entirely dependent upon the benevolence of the public. The number of in and out patients who received medical and surgical treatment in the twelve months ending December argent cases admitted without tickets.

The Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital is in Temple row ; this charity was first established in 1864 in Cannon street, nnd in 18o3 premises were secured in Steelhouse lane were found inadequate, and the present building was pur- chased and adapted at a cost of £8,247. Accommodation is provided for 47 inmates, and the number of sufferers treated 774 in-patients.

The Queen's Hospital Is under the patronage ol Her Majesty, and Earl Howe is the vice-president; it was incorporated by special Act of Parliament as a clinical hospital 12th August, 1867 ; this charity is Indebted for its origin to the late William 8ands Cox, p.r.s. The foundation-stone was laid on the 18th Jnne, 1840, by the Earl Howe, and in the following year the wards were opened by the Lord Bishop of Worcester: it is situated at the west end of the town, in Bath row, near St . Thomas's church : it is supported by annnal subscriptions, and has 156 beds; connected with it are fever detached wards. There is also an obstetric department attached to the hospital, and any deserving person who Is recommended by a governor of the hospital, , legally qualified medical practi- tioner, or a clergyman or minister of religion, will be attended at her confinement on application to the obstetric officer at the hospital. A building, now called the out-patient department, with lnnndrv and mortuary, was erected in ing "classes of Birmingham contributed £4,000. The old and new buildings are connected by a glass passage, which has been fitted up as a conservatory, used bv the patients as a promenade ; there are extensive grounds for the use of convalescents. Number of In-patients annually, 2,000;

The Lying-in Charity Is at 7 NewhaTI street. There Is a large Infirmary in Dudley road, contiguous to the Work- to Industrial pursuit* for the Inmates.

The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital, for sick children, founded in 1861, and opened for the reception of patients in Steelhouse lane, January 1st, 1862, is supported by voluntary contributions. The in-patient department, which was removed to Broad street, in January 1870, contains 44 beds. A separate fever department* is now erected on an adjoining site, which will hold 31 beds; nurses' dormitories are provided. The cost of this was about £8,000. The ont-patient department, a hand- some Gothic brick building, situated in Steelhouse lane and Upper Priory, which was erected at a cost of about

The Borough Hospital Is built on ground originally belong- ing to the Workhouse, but now separated by a wall, and belongs to the Corporation ; it ie situated In the Western road, Winson green, close to the Soho branch of Canal ; it was established in November, 1874, and consists of several wards, unconnected, built mostly of wood, capable of accom- modating 150 patients; small-pox and scarlet- rever cases only are admitted.

The General Dispensary, in Union street, founded 1704, is n plain, stone-fronted building, erected in 1808. The Ear nnd Throat Infirmary, an Institution for the Relief of Deaf- ness and Diseases of the Ear and Throat, is at 81 New hall

The General Institution for the Blind is in Carpenter road, Edtrhoston : it is a large, handsome structure, in the Elizabethan style, and was opened in July 1852: the master's house adjoins the institution. At the present time there are 84 pupils being trained as organists, basket and brush makers, or mat weavers, in addition to the general school instruction of reading and arithmetic, by means of pegs and boards, and geography with ums of raised globe and maps.

The Magdalen Asylum and Refuge, in the Clarendon road, will hold 50 inmates ; it was instituted in 1828 from chari- table bequests. There is a Medical Benevolent Society.

There are several almshouses. Lench'R Trust, Hospital street, Summer lane, for 34 aged women; Lady wood road, Edgbaston; Ravenhurst street, for 48 poor aged women, who each have a furnished room and three shillings weekly ; Steelhouse lane, for 38 aged women, built by the trustees of Lench's estate iu the year 1764.

J sines Lloyd's Almshouses, Belgrave street, were erected and endowed in 1869 by Mrs. James Lloyd, in accordance with the wishes of her husband, the late Mr. James Lloyd, banker of this town. There are 24 brick cottages and a lodge ; each cottage containing bed and sitting roam an J smnll kitchen ; they are occupied by 24 females, who receive 2s. weekly from the endowment.

The Birmingham Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, in Bristol street, was erected in 1848-0 bv voluntary contributions ; it is a plain building, of red brick', with stone dressings, in the Elizabethan style.

The Retreat, Warner street, Bordeak-r, parish of Aston, containing 20 dwelling-houses and n chapel, was erected in 1820-1, bv James Dowell, esq. a native of Bristol, bat long resident in Bordeslev : this institution was en- dowed by his widow In 1821. and is vested in trustees; the i a mates are allowed Is. 0u. each weekly, with an ad- ditional Is. per week to a doorkeeper, together with about £0 per year to a superintendent ; all widows and spinsters, parishioners of Aston, or who may have resided therein 20 years, and not being more than 70 years old. with an income not exceeding £20 per annum, are eligible; two tons of coal yearly, in addition to the above, are allowed to the respective inmates: there are two farms (one at Moaeley and one at King's Norton), and some property at Bordealey, left for tlie maintenance (for ever) of these almshouses. Mrs. Glover's almshouses. In Steelhouse lane, for 36 elderly females, were founded In 1882. There is a Provident Insti- tution at 40, Ann street.

St. Philip's Catholic Orphanage, 11, Oliver road, under the superintendence of Rev. H. Austin Mills, will hold between 50 and 60 orphan poor boys, who are partly main- tained by the aid of voluntary subscriptions.

A description of the Orphanage, founded by Sir Josiab Mason, at Erdington, will be found under Erdington, at

The late Mr. William Dudlev, jewellers' factor and^ mer- chant, an old Birmingham resident, bequeathed in le76 the -am of £100,000, which Is vested in trustees to he applied for the following purposes i first, to assist young J

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*f coed character in Blr business by lending them moderate rami of money at i low rate of interest; secondly, to make annual grants or benefactions towards the maintenance and support of aged tradesmen within the limits of the borough ; thirdly, any turpi u* income arising from the trust! to be divided among the medical charities of the town. Six trustees are ap- pointed under the deed, and the Town to elect foar others to act with them.

Calthorpe Park, covering an area of 31a. lr. 13p. is situ- ated in the Persbore mad, and is about one mile and a half south from the Town Hall; it was opened June 1st, 1857, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ; it is held by the Corporation under a grant from Lord Calthorpe.

Cannon Hill Park, formerly the Cannon Hill Estate, covering an area of 57a. lr. 9p. was given by Miss Ryland to the Corporation on behalf of the town, together with the sum of £5,000 ; it Is situated on the right of Edgbaston road eoing from the Bristol road, and about two miles south msyor (Ambrose Biggs, esq.) ; there are three ponds, one of nbich is used for boating purposes ; there is also a bathing place constructed, the depth varying from 2ft. Cin. to 0 ft. ; there are also cricket and croquet grounds. The park was planned by Mr. Gibson, of Battersea. Tbe first signature In the visitors' book is that of H.R.H the Duke of Edin-

Small Heath Park. - Miss Ryland has also given forty- wo acres at Small-heath for a hundred years, at a pepper- corn rent, to form another park: part of the estate consists of a boose and twentv-seven acres of land, on a lease, which will expire at Lady Day, 1880; this lease Miss Ryland sur- it is now ( 1878) being laid out, towards which Miss

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Suinmerfteld Park, the land for which was acquired in 1876, lies in Rotton Park ward, and is approached a little beyond Icknield Port road from the Dudley road, which forms its boundary on tbe one side, while the Harbome railway constitutes its limit in the opposite direction. The extent of the park is 12a. 20p. one-half consisting of meadow land, suitable for cricket and other pastimes, while the other part is thickly studded with fine old trees and shrubs of various kinds. In the centre stands Summer- field House, from which the Park derives its name. The house contains numerous rooms, which it is the intention of tbe Baths and Parks Committee to, utilise for tbe benefit of the inhabitants.

Highgate Park, Moseley road, was opened by the Mayor was purchased at a cost of £8,000 by the Corporation, who have in addition spent about £5,000 in fencing, planting and laying the ground out, it being waste at the time of purchase. It includes an asphalted play - ground, is bounded by thickly populated streets, and is 8a. 28p. in area. Through its elevated position it affords u fine view

Adderley Park is situated at Saltley : it covers an area of Norton) to the Corporation of Birmingham for 909 years, at the nominal rental of 5s. a vear : it was opened to the

Burhurv Street Recreation Ground covers an area of in. lr. 3p. and was given by William Middlemore, esq. : it was opened tothe'public on the 1st December 1877.

There are several first-class newspapers published in Birmingham. The 'Birmingham Daily Post ' (Liberal), with which is amalgamated the ' Birmingham Journal ' : it issue* also on Saturday a paper entitled the ' Weekly Post,' specially addressed to the working classes ; the ' Daily Mail,' isamid-dav ;,ml evening half-penny paper (Advanced ); the 'Daily Gazette' and 'Aris's Birmingham (Saturday) (Conservative), are well-conducted papers, and have a considerable circulation, the latterpaper Bwfag one of the oldest in the kingdom. The 1 Iron Trades Circular 1 is devoted to the interests of the iron trade, and has a large and increasing circulation. The ' Midland Counties herald' (Neutral) is published on Thursdavs. There arc several other papers, also almanacs and railway

Birmingham is considered to be one of the best served towns as tar as railway accommodation is concerned, tbe Great Western, London and North-Western and the Midland having stations well placed in the centre of tbe

Tho North-Western railway goods station is in Carxon street, and during the summer is used for excursion traffic. The station for passengers is in Stephenson place, New street, and was opened in September 1898.

The Great Western railway chief station is at Snow hill, and there areothers at Hockley, Bordesley, and Handsworth. The buildings on the Snow hill side contain the waiting and refreshment rooms, hooking office, cloak-room and station- master's and parcel offices: the offices of the divisional passenger superintendent and the district goods' manager are also on the Snow hill side of the station. Red brick string courses and moulded corbels and cornices of Bath stone give It an ornamental character. The building on the Livery street side is similar to that facing Snow hill, but onlv one storey in height. At the north end of the Liv is separate accommodation for the [ traffic. The roof over the main line is of f. and 91 feet in span. The building was erected from the designs of Mr. W. G. Owen, cngineer-in-chief to the Great Western Railway Company.

In addition to the above there are two single lines of railway for tbe convenience of the residents in the western suburbs : one, a branch of the London and North Western, forms a junction at Coplow street, Icknield Port road, in Rotton Park ward, anu extends to Harborne; its terminus being at the junction of the High street and Lodge road. The other railway, the Birmingham West Suburban (opened April :trd, 1876), has its terminus at Granville street, and joins the main line at King's Norton.

Queen's and North Western Hotel is attached to the Great Central Station and is one of the largest first-class hotels in the town, making up more than 130 beds ; most conveniently situated for travellers arriving by the London and North Western, Midland, South Staffordshire, Stour Vallev and other railways : Joshua Williams is the proprietor.

The Midland Hotel, facing New street and Stephen- son place, close to the entrance to the North Western railway, Is in the Italian style ; tbe centre of the building is now complete and capable of making up 100 beds; when the two wings which are in progress are ready there will be rooms for 200 beds; there Is a magnificent coffee room with a 50ft. frontage to New street ; there is a ladies' coffee room, and commercial, smoking and billiard

The White Horse Commercial Hotel is at the corner or Congreve and Great Charles streets.

Many of the large factories constitute establishment* almost or a public character : -

Tiie works at Soho were founded in 1757, but came into the possession of Matthew Boulton in 1762, and formed one of the great schools of mechanical engineering and the arts of design, under Matthew Boulton, James Watt, William M unlock, and Francis Egginton. The Soho foundry was erected at Smethwick some years later, and the manufacture of steam engines, coin presses and the minting of coinr is still carried on by the firm of James Watt and Co. In the year 1850 the old ''Soho mint" was dismantled and the* machinery sold ; not a vestige of the building now remains; most of the working plant passed into the hands of Messrs. Ralph Heaton and Sons, the Mint, Bir- mingham, who have now enormous powers for the pro- duction of coins. Messrs. Tangye Brothers, hydraulic and general engineers, and several specialities, are at theCorn wal I works, Soho. Messenger and Son's manufactory, in Broad street, is for ornamental work in bronze and ormolu. In Cheapside and in Fazelev street are tbe brass foundry and gas- fitting establishment of Messrs. J. and W.Brc-din and Booth : in Moseley street are the brass foundry and tube works of Messrs. William Tonka and Sons; and in Cambridge street those of Messrs. R. W. Winfleld and Co. : and in Great Lister street the brass foundry of Messrs. W. and T. Alleoder. Messrs. Perry and Co. Limited, Lancaster street, are large manufacturers of steel pens. The extensive steel pen and pen holder manufactorv of Messrs. Gillott is in Graham street; about 14,000,000 pens are manufactured in thi« town weekly. Messrs. Griffiths' and BrowettV galvanized iron works are in Bradford street. The bolt and rivet works of William Rarwell are in Crabtree road. Wire is extensively manufactured here: among others, bv the Birmingham Battery Co. of Digbeth and Selly Oak ; Charles Clifford and Son, of Fazeley street and Snow hill ; Ralph Heaton and Sons, of the Mint, Irkuield street ; Heaton and Dugard, of Shadwell street ; and Samuel Walker, of Lower Fazeley street. Screwing tackle is the specialitv at the Victoria works, Great Tindal street, Lady- wood I M r. Thomas Chat win ; bellows and portable forges by J. C. Onions Liinited.of Bradford street. The cut and en- graved glass works of Mr.H. J. Man ton are in Great Charles street; and the flint glass works of Messrs. Sarson and Son

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are In Chester street. Messrs. F. and C. Osier's works, in Broad street, are well known for the manufscture of glass chandeliers and table glass. Messrs.Chance'.i glass works are extensive. The electro-plate works of Messrs. Elkington and Co. are in Newhall street ; and those of Messrs. J .Yatesfe Sons in Pritchett street. Mr. S. A. Daniell, of Edward street, Parade (late St. Pauls square), is a manufacturer of copyiug and embossing presses. Mr. H. Hope of Lionel street is a large manufacturer of horticultural buildings and hot water

The area of Birmingham parish i« 2,G60 acres, end of Edgbaston 2,700. The gross estimated rental of Birming-

The population of the borough of Birmingham in 1841 mixed , the great social peculiarities being the very large number of "little masters," or persons employing their own families, or a small number of men, youths or girl.*, and the very general employment of girls and women in nearly all the trades. The town is remarkably free from epidemic diseases ; which is attributed by some to its peculiar geo- graphical situation, and by other* tn the dissipation of sulphuric acid gas and other gases from the factories.

The following table gives the Number op Houses and the Population is each Parish within tho Borough of

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The rapid progress of Birmingham in population and ex- tent within the fast fifty years is remarkable ; the buildings extend beyond the limits of the borough, connecting the town with the agricultural districts of \> arwickshire and Worcestershire on the one hand, and the great mining and manufacturing communities of Staffordshire on the other. Little more than a century ago the whole of Birmingham did not contain 4,000 houses, the growth of many ages, dating back before the Conquest: the inhabited houses in

Edgbaston parish forms the south-western portion of the borongh.

Aston parish, of which a portion only is within the limits of the borough, lies to the north and east.

Balsam. Heath, to the south of Birmingham, is an ecclesiastical parish taken out of King's Norton, and al- though not within the limits of the borough, is so connected with it as to form part of the town, and is given with the " Streets " in the following pages.

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1 Renaud Alfred, bedding maker I'4* Pfckering Mrs. Ann, midwife

2 Pratt Henry James, flour &c. dealer ??? Bellamy James, tailor

3 Hodson David, fried tish shop

Bindley David, shopkeeper

4 Lontrthom Saml. waste paper dealer

5 Hudson Mark, glass shade manufctr 7 Archer Mrs. Adah, pawnbroker

9 Xoon Richard, bricklayer

10 Taylor Mrs. Susan, midwife

11 fisher Miss Mary, dress maker 15 Hutchinson Richard, shopkeeper here is Howe street

Jones Charles k Son, builders Hands John Ac Sons, engineers Stc.

.here it Cardigan $t. Belmont row.

Abberley sjtroet, the Cape, top of Winson street, Heath street. Wilkes (John), Mapplebeck St Co. Patent brass tube works. Seeadvt

Abbey street, 71 Lodge road. 1 lies John, scrap iron merchant

3 Wayne Joseph Blunt

4 Reddall Charles Frederick, engraver

14 Cbamlierlain Enoch, tin plate worker

15 Hunt Walter Henry, dairyman

18 Burford & Son, screw rivet manufra

20 Warmer Joseph, carpenter

21 Wilkins James

22 Benson Moses, pawnbroker 27 Grover John William

31 Wildav William *4Middleton Mrs 37 Bennett William Henry

here is Park

Price Daniel, shopkeeper

151 Ladds Mrs. Mary, grocer

Adams street, 277 Great Lister st.

7 j Monks Emanuel, coal dealer

he r-t is Lord street

13 Lister William, shopkeeper

21 Mean Mrs. Margaret, shopkeeper

22 Arndle William, greengrocer

Wells George St Co. brasafoundera, Anchor works 30 Done Kdmund, baker 33 Odd Fellows' Arms, Rlehd. Osman

here is Richard street. ..

42 Johnson Thomas, coal dealer 49 Moseley James, beer retailer 51 Nicholls Mrs. Caroline, shopkeeper

Aberdeen street, Winson green.

4 Robinson Charles, pawnbroker

5 Dooley Ebeneser, tobacconist 11 Tarletbn Rev. William Haigh 26 Jenkins William, assurance agent 33 Williams Charles, beer retailer 30 Williams Mrs. Harriet, baker 41 ( back of ) Brittain Jesse, shoe maker

44 Edwards Frederick, grocer

45 Jackson George, hosier

48 Dsnks Thomas, shopkeeper

49 ic 50 Stoddard Wm. grocer it butcher

.... ...here is Lansdown street

*<> Moskall William, grocer 74 Herring Mrs. Kate, milliner

76 Hill John

77 Davis Izrad

102 James Charles, grocer

103 Sage George, coke St Iron agent

104 Hoolsten Richard, tailor

108 Itching* Mrs.Prudence, tripe dresser 22 Maudsley Henry, grocer 110 Paine Henry William, draper 24 Reynolds Geo. John, glass &c. dealer 115 Rowlands Evan, heer retailer

Adderley st. BordesUy, 1(30 Highst- 19 Baldwin Henry, shopkeeper 22 Mewig Henry, newsagent 29 Waggon Sf Horses, Rlchd. Farndon 33 Garner Mrs. Harriet, shopkeeper 37 Casebrook Mrs. Alice, cloth cap makr 37 Casebrook Charles, bricklayer 57 Corporation of Birmingham Gas Works, Charles Hunt, engineer

here is New Bond street

78 Harris George, coal dealer

80 Checketts Thomas, blacksmith

81 Findon John, shopkeeper

.here are Watery lane ft Kingston rd. 83 Adderley Arms, William Morris 87 Gamble Henry, tobacconist 93 Attfleld Henry, shopkeeper

here is Glover street

Everitt Allen St Sons, manufacturers of brass & copper tubes, wire Sec. (Kingston metal works) ..here are Liverpool st. Se Allcock st. . 130 Barnslev Frederick, shopkeeper 137 Lindon Daniel, bair dresser 140 Kemp William, pork butcher

148 Bannister Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper here is Lower Trinity street

149 Dunn Zenas, beer retailer 155 Kendrick Henry, steel hardening ma 1G0 Palmer William, van it cart owner

Pardon William, coal dealer 160} Pitt fc liiil die, bed sacking mantra

Adelaide street, 1 Darwin street.

1 Carpenters' Arms, George Rotton

2 Hawthorn William, linen draper

3 Broadhurst Mrs. Ruth, corn dealer 11 Phillips Noah Tiiomas.cabinet maker

here is Macdonald street

33 Palmer Benjamin, pawnbroker ;42 Hollowoy Charles, plumber tic

Adelaide street, 74 Vauxhall road.

1 Ingram Henry Joseph

2 Walker Thomas Morris 8 Foster Norris Tildasley 6 Spreag Richard

8 Bridges John Charles, tailor

10 Twist Edwin

11 Adams Charles

12 Ssyer Charles

13 Cooper George William, engraver

14 Preston Mrs

15 Westbury George

23 Stenson Joseph, beer retailer

24 Niel William, tailor

here is Inkerman street

39 Loach John William

40 Mattbewson Jas. Gillis

41 Fullwoml Richard

Albert road, Aston park.

2 Tolliday Joseph

4 Parsons John, jun 12 Gregory Mrs. Harriet, shopkeeper 28 Musson Mrs. Kosanna, shopkeeper 30 Kerr Miss Graved, ladies' school 48 Cooke Henry M. castor top maker here is Wittonroad

160 Hall Samuel 162 Robinson Joseph 104 Woodwolley Mrs 106 Tolley Henry 108 Hodges Frederick 170 Rowlinson William 170 Boulton Moses

182 Thorley Charles Septimus 188 Clacke'tt Cephas 190 Young William 192 Lamb William 194 Andrews John 196 Gray George 198 Jones Benjamin

204 Dumbleton W. C. professor of music 208 Middleton Francis George, hide St

bark factor 210 Walsh Alfred

here is Bevbigton road

Fenney William, grocer Post St Money Order Office k. Savings Bank (Upper Sutton street office) Homer James Frederick, 2 ) Albert James James, 1 ) villas

Philpot Thomas (1 Clifton villas) Aroall John, 2 ) Holt

Sharp Thomas, 1 J villas

Spiers John H arry, 2) Eaton Bowtell George, 1 f villas

Higgins AdolphusFredrck. 1 Canon- Augustus, 2 > bury Hughes William, l) villas Preston Henry, 2 ) Frederick

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Albert road - continued Russell Thomas Joseph, ") jjenrv

screw manufacturer, 5^ Gilford Thomas, Allan John,

KicbardMin Wm. Fredk. Ta> lor Albert, Adams William James, Wurd William, Harper Mrs Hunt Ralph, Stent Misses Maria 4c

ladies' school, Hill John.

Colley illiam Edward,

5Watkin* James 5UukerJui.il Richard 0 Filter James 13 Hesp Uriah 15 Reeve Thomas S3 Armstrong James 36 Johnson Samuel 41 Richard* Joshua 43 Collrdgc Henry 45 Heaton George 47 Bullocks Benjamin 57 Strange Richard, grocer

- is Witton road

65 Walters. Rev. William 71 Green George

Gallery Sj

79 Woodwolley John 83 Willson Wflliani 89 Leviek John 91 Hank* Richard 93 Davis John 95 Pogson John 97 Cole Thomas 99 Vincent Thomas 101 Currier William 103 Watson William Milne 105 Edmonds Edwin 107 Culwick Miss Annie, ladies' school 109 Philipps Edward 111 Bladen George 113 Watson Mrs 115 Da r rail Joseph 117 Vaughan Mrs 119 Light** ood Joseph 1*21 Haywood Mrs 127 Vaughton Thomas 1'29 Tolley William 131 Vaughan Joseph Edward 135 Jones William 137 Jones William Lloyd 139 Rutherford James 141 Miller William 143 Loveridge Henry 147 Newman Samuel Thomas 149 Standish John 151 H us band Robert 0 anient 155 Baldwin Charles Henry 157 Showell Edwin

159 Mather Samuel

161 Reading Samuel Alfred 1G3 Upton John 165 Pick Frederick 167 Rylaud William

160 Talbot John

171 Rowlinaon Georgo Frederick 173 Tye Richard 175 Lewis George Warburtou 177 Unite William 185 Rushton Robert

195 Wiseman John 197 WbiU-hill William 19ft Jackson Charles -201 Hockey John Edward -205 Alcock Thos. Joy, commcl. travellr 207 Hickin George, artist -209 Hunt Thomas

211 Havman John 221 Pullen Mrs 223 Birmingham David 237 Shakesjwar Picture

Cocoa Home (

230 Spittle John

here is Upper Sutton street.

245 Horsley Joseph 249 Smyth John 253 Collins George 255 Rider William S67 Snrigg* JosiuB 271 Williams Alfred -285 Collins Charles 287 Nicholl* Henry -289 Bitson Charles 201 Jones George 297 Palmer Alfred 299 Sbilton William Holbe 301 Reed Henry 303 Ryland Thomas 305 Powis William 307 Underl i i M Joseph 309 Perrins John 311 Phillips George John 313 Keeler Henry 315 Patersou David 317 Evans Charles Henry .... here is Upper Thomas street 319 Victoria hotel, John Sankey 321 Col lis Joseph 323 Adams Oswald 325 Horrock* Henry 927 Lines Edward Duncombe 329 Cash Thomas 331 Sprules Walter 333 Phillips Henry Joseph 335 Phillips Mrs 337 Greigii Mrs 339 Keatlev James 341 Toms Joseph Henwood 343 Cardell Alfred

Hipklss Hy.Chas. lithographic artist Parry Walter & Co. hardware wareho Walton Richd. Geo. provision merch Beard Brothers, brewers Stokes Samuel, coffee house Corns, Sheriff 4c Ratley, engravrs. 4cc Fen by Joseph Beverley 4c Co. camp

furniture manufacturers Pratt Brother* 4c Farmer, pearl

button manufacturers Martin Thomas 4c Co. printers

here is Moor street

Grew Frederick, printer ice. (Albert

works). See advert Hopkins Sc Son, brassfounders (Sey- mour works) Daniel] J. W. salerooms

Richard, hide Sc wool broker

Albert street, 23 Key hill. 1 Smith James, jewellers 'glass painter 5 Scott William, stamper Sc piercer wire drawer

Albert street, Bordesley green to Oreen lane, Small heath.

2 Walker Frederick, boot

7 Jacques Charlei 11 Anderson John 15 HawHn Richard

18 Floyd Miss

19 Butler William, coal

20 Ward George

21 Martin William 92 Nash Daniel, shopkeeper

. here is North Warwickstreet. .. .

27 Bacon Edward

28 Mills Samuel

29 Davis Honrv Langdon

30 Shaw Richard

31 Pearson Samuel

32 Mabey Mrs 35 Forbes John

38 Crathorn William

litre is Green lane

46 Woodwanl Mrs

48 Jones George 4c Carter

49 Hughes Benjamin

51 Barritt David, coal dealer

here is Talfourd street

Wilkins Miss Harriet, beer retailer 54 Wajrstaff Miss

58 Child Mrs. Mary Ann, pawnbroker

61 White 4c Day, plasterers

67 Benton Brothers,sllvcr wire drawers

70 Sterling Richard

72 Greenhill William

Albert street, 58 High street. PrudavTho$.Danson,wine4Lspiritmei Ashwobd Mr*. Louisa, tobacconist Price Bros, bonnet shape manufactrs Joan* John 4: Co. wholesale milliners

street, 54 Frederick street

5 Gibson Richard, tobacconist

6 Jennings John, lamp dealer

7 Rldjrway Joseph Holdbam,boot mak

8 Scattergood Semi. Houston, ahopkpr 10 Chandler Reuben, haberdasher

here is Pope street

12 George ft Dragon, Bird 4c r here is Carver street . .

14 Pritchard Si Bagnall, bakers

15 Glover Leonard, jeweller

17 Price Edwin, cab proprietor

18 B runner Wm. commercial

19 Bowman Thomas Simpson

20 Hipwood Benjamin 4c Son.d 22 Fouch George, silversmith 28 Btmcher James

24 Bough Mrs. Ann, talloress

here is Tenby street

28 Price Charles Henry, jeweller

29 Arrowsmlth Robert 4c Co. Jewellers

30 Davis Tudor

31 Morris Harris, jeweller

32 Davis John, beer retailer

34 Lloyd Misses

35 Hart Frederick, jeweller

36 Holmes Mrs

37 McCalla Charles Antonio, i

here is Frederick street.

south stde.

49 SaDdert Charles, gold locket

50 Harris Benjamin, jeweller

51 Fletcher John .jeweller

52 Bauer Fredk. Wm. merchant 4c factor

54 King Henry Freeman, stud maker

55 Moulsey 4c Co. electro plate manfrs

56 H olden George, penholder maker

57 Mills George, jeweller

58 Loach Brothers, jewellers

59 Stokes Henry, jeweller

60 Yateman William, factor

61 Thompson Richard E. factor here is Leg ge lane

87 Cluttcrbuck James, greengrocer

88 Poole Frederick, tobacconist

89 Eaton Miss Elizabeth, dressmaker

90 Seymour Mrs. S«-lina, umbrella dealer

91 Gledhall Mrs. Sarah Jane, shopkeeper

94 Martin Thomas, tobacconist

95 Horton Mrs Frances, grocer 95 White 4c Hawkins, silversmiths

Tedd William 4c Sons, silver polishers 100 Winirrove Miss Ann, dress maker

Alee st or road, Moseley. [For other names not included in thia road, see Moseley 4c King's Heath.] Pratt John H. (Carlton house) Wall Letter Box Egglestone Robert (The Chesnuts)

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Hollies Mrs Overbury Freak Pattuon William, I B Smith Mrs. \ Heatbfleld

H ., , gins Mrs. (GroudeR villa) Bad ham George ( Four Ashes)

inw^f Rev. Thomas, b.a. [Congre- gational! ( El ton! villa) Osborne Win. Henry (Thornby villa) Kenway Henry, Hollv bank wintohall Mrs. 1 \ Basedale

Cornish Cha*. Leslie, 2j place Ford Isaac (Ovcrdale lodge)

i* Park road, Moseley

Pad more Mr*. (Linfieid) Jordan William Ross, surgeon Shaw Oliver, surgeon

Cowen Samuel Charles (The Cedars) Pndmore Mrs. (The Cedars) Aaster Thomas ( Lonsdale house) Innes John (The Limes) Potter Stephen (Osmund house) Stringer Alfred D. (Etruria house) Spencer Thomas (Markland house)

boarding k day school

5 Lean Charles 4 Gosling Alfred

3 O'Leary John Gibson O'Leary Misses Frances ic Kathe- rine, ladies' school 2 Clarkson Mrs

1 Patterson Alfred

2 Osborn William Marmaduke

3 Holland George Robinson

4 Mc.Vamara Matthew A Alleock George

6 Colwell Hector

7 Bourne Mrs

8 Jarvis John S

9 Leveret t Rev. John

10 Baxter William

11 Taylor George

58 Cadman William, shopkeeper 69 Davis Joseph, coach builder Stone Charles, painter 72 Roberts Xehemiah Geo.iron chair ma

74 Under hill Samuel, bricklayer

75 Wheeler Owen, shopkeeper 83 Smith Edward, horse shoe 86 Macdonald Joseph, dairy 88 ic 89 Armstrong Francis, cooper

91 Sutton James, builder

92 Kinder Aaron, van proprietor Kin* Thomas, hay fit strew

96 Burden John, pump maker here is Moseley street

149 Lawrence John, provision dealer 153 Chamberlain Edwin, beer retailer 153 J Cross George, tin plate worker

150 Truman James, flreiron maker

157 Thornley ic Knight, varnish manfrs 161 Wollaston Th«mu« ic John, gas

2 Rosa Mrs

3 Gabrell Mrs

4 Milligan James

5 Mnrphv Samuel

6 Reynolds Mbs

7 Marshall George

8 Pickard John

9 Purser Mr*

.-J (The Beeches) Smith George Thos.(TheHawtborns) Tiramins George (The Hawthorns) Hughes Oeo.Wadsworth (Aubynho)

treat, DerUend, 50 High street.

6 Hudson Mrs. Aunie, butcher

13 Littler Joseph, hinge maker

14 Edwards William, shopkeeper Id Cartwrigbt John, butcher

17 Dog * Partridge, William Pollard a* 23 Cox Brothers ic Holland, steel

here is Green street

16 Boyer Henry, furniture dealer

here is Bradford street

St. Axn's Catholic Chapel

here is Cheapside..

I Bloxham Thomas, bird p A Brierly Samuel, shopkeei V> Bladon John, coal dealer H Croxton John, shopkeeper keri is Moseley street

162 Bayliss Mrs. Maria, babel

163 Joyce Samuel, pawnbroker

173 Hancock Mrs. Amelia, shopkeeper 177 Hancock John Richard, plumber

here is Bradford street

here is Warwick street

205 Horton William, shopkeeper 207 Xichols John, chimney sweeper 215 Jones Charles, tailor

1 Bayliss Edward

3 Yardley Henry

4 Wightwlck William

.nereis Balsall Heath road.

Teller Mrs (Myrtle villa) Newall Thomas ( Fern villa) Henderson Frank (Charlotte villa) James William (The Laurels) Abbott George, 1 { Calthorpe

Hut; lies Benjamin, 2) villas Whitfield Henry. Priest James Hulston Diamond Asher, Potter George,

13 Ketland William, cart owner

14 Pea re y Thomas, coal merchant 14 Williams Mrs. Agnes, shopkeeper 23 Wool ley Thomas, beer retailer here is Shaki spear e road ....

Alfred, atreet, Svarkbrook,

Lady pool lane.

1 Oakley Alfred, provision dealer

2 Jones William, shopkeeper 16 Wilson William Jacob, hosier 23 Judd Charles Henry, maltster 31 Montgomery Charles, beer retailer

47 Bucknall Theophilus Edwd. shopkpr

48 Beech John, shoe maker here is Queen ttreet

49 Statham John, shopkeeper 62 Lancaster John, commercial travellr

Warstone lane.

2 Moore John F. jeweller

3 Child James Brown, engraver

4 Crompton Robert, gold chain maker 9 Perry George, engraver

1*2 Camming Matthew, engraver

21 Morris James, boot maker

27 Rogers James, guard chain maker

Alleock atreet, 40 Heath MUX lane. 7 Griffiths Thomas, beer retailer

here is William street

[19 Great Western House, J aph. Jordan

20 Jones William, s

Board School

38 Bowen Richard, provision dealer 45 Butterworth George, shopkeeper 49 Hooper Henry, shopkeeper 61 Smith, Crofts ic Crane, Iron 70 Johnson Mrs. Mary,

9 Turner James, shopkeeper 92 Smith George, shopkeeper 97 Bashford William, beer rot

Alliaon atreet, 119 Digbeth.

1 Hague Charles, bird dealer

3 Wood William, furniture dealer

5 Porter James, builder

6 Davis Joseph, beer retailer

18 Holbrook William, leather cutter 24 Ryland Edward, shopkeeper

28 McAvon Hugh, brush maker

29 Haddock Thomas, shopkeeper

31 Bennetf Richard, chimnev sweeper

32 ic 33 Wilkins William, coal dealer

39 ffewey Thomas, gimlet manufacturer

40 Fellows James, shopkeeper

42 Moran Mrs. Mary, egg dealer

45 Flvun Thomas, shopkeeper

47 Stringer Mrs. Virginia, shopkeeper

hrre is Bordesley street

54 Scaysbrook Henry, engraver

56 Oakes Soloman, blacksmith

here is Park lane

78 Ewens George, butcher

79 MacGann Joseph, beer retailer

80 Motterain Charles, brazier CordericTurley, umbrella furniture ma here is Well lane

All Saints' road, f/vw .1 H Saints' st.

All Saints' atreet, 355 Lodge road.

2 Wilding Miss Emma, dr

5 Williams ThoaJohn de Courey, i 7 Gilbert Kibins 7 Woodroffe Joseph, house i

11 Butler James, dairyman

12 Jackson Thomas, grocer here is All Saints' road.

. here is the Great Western Railway.

Hughes Arthur Robert, brooch maker All Saints' Cuurcu All Saints' National frlnfant Schls

Alma crescent, 35 Inker man street' Middleton Henry, shopkeeper

Alma street, Aston Neio town, Lozells road. ( Morrice Mrs. Ann, stationer 1< Post ic Money Order Oppicb

3 Plant William, hair dresser 5 Maddox G«-orge. tailor ( Rose cottage) 7 Davis Edward John, draper 11 Sparrow Caleb, builder 13 Darby Mrs. Matilda, tobacconist 23 Mott Miss Eliza, shopkeeper 25 Russell Mrs. Emma, dress maker 27 Phelphs John, boot maker 33 Crompton Robert Albert, linen draper 37 Taylor Mrs

39 Jones Miss Margaret, shopkeeper 45 West wood George James, agent

40 Holland Harry, butcher 51 Coekram Thomas, draper 53 Morley Samuel, confectioner 55 Gardner John, grocer

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Alma street - continued.

57 Webb Edwin, watch & clock maker

61 Atkins Thomas, hardware dealer G3 llowe Mrs. Jane, shopkeeper

65 Lee Henry, shopkeeper

67 W'ainwright Edward, tobacconist

73 Davis John, plasterer 79 Evans Richard Lonemore, zinc wrier

81 Smith George, tow dealer

83 Hawkins Alfred, confectioner

85 Carter John Edward, pork butcher

87 Clark William, greengrocer

89 Bevan Mrs. Mary, boot

91 Tillotson Samuel, coffee her« is Gerrard street

93 Dawson Tom, baker

95 Barlow Mrs. Elizabeth M. milliner 97 Galey John, tobacconist 99Cookes William, butcher 103 Gadd Benjamin, fishmonger 165 Hewitt George, confectioner 111 Smith Joseph, beer retailer

115 Udall Mrs. Mary, milliner 117 Slatter Mrs. Ann, hosier

121 Tonkinson William

123 Alma tavern, James Rogers 125 Rooker William, hardware dealer 129 Sawyer Frank Henry, tobacconist 141 Hue* Haul, news agent 145 1 laden George, confectioner 147 James George, coffee house

here is Clifford street ,,

149 Levick John, metal spinner 151 Walton Charles, stationer 157 Griffiths Lewis, tailor

Board School Bennett Henry, engineer Prime George, iron founder Warwick Thomas, umbrella rib manfr Martindale Ralph Sc Co. Limited, sword makers

2 Bdens Mrs. Matilda, boot maker 4 Hands James, greengrocer 12 Peatman Robert, tripe dresser

14 Marlow John, painter 30 Salutation, Herbert Walter Green 42(backof) Pountney Sc 1 lay, spur rowl.mas 44 Lawton Thomas George, grocer 50 Giles John, cabinet maker 50a. Roberts James, provision dealer 52 Clifton William, slater 54 Paton Joseph, baker 56 Sothers Alfred Harry, linen draper

58 Newemore Edward, hardware dealer 60 Phillips Henry, fishmonger

62 Young George Argyle, dairy 64 Vine, Charles Abraham Adams

Iiere is Whitehead street

64a, Shuker Mrs. Jane, haberdasher hert is New street

66 Pugh John, grocer

68 Chilton Miss Clara, milliner 70 Kinsey Thomas, boot 4c shoe maker 72 Haden Alfred, shopkeeper

74 Lee Henry, corn dealer 76 Boaler Gideon, butcher 8i*} Stone William, pump maker

82 Bloomer Joseph , coal dealer

84 Heap John, pork butcher

86 Smith John Fincher, hair dresser

88 Knowles David, undertaker

90 Lord George, baker

92 Mackenzie Daniel, butcher

94 Green George Adams, photographer Bloomer John, shopkeeper

here is Inkcrman street

96 Brown James, beer retailer 110 Winn George, shopkeeper

116 x 118 Carlyle Thos. button manufr 120 Bloore William, builder

122 Harrison Sc Smith, button manufrs

124 Berry Richd.ic Son.coach spring ma Alston Btreet, Lady wood, from

St. Margaret's Church (south side. 11 Mould John

15 Squires George

19 Pratt George

21 Edkins John 23 Dorey John

25 Gower Edwin

27 Elkington Thomas, shopkeeper

31 Clements Mrs

33 Garner Thomas

37 Cooper- James

39 James Richard

41 Beer George Commins

43 Buckler Edgar Allan

45 Lusty Walter Hyde

47 Chatwln Charles 49 Hakins Thomas Henry

51 Greening Charles

53 Atkins Edward, tailor 55 Arnot James

57 Overton- William F

59 Bamford Charles

61 Thomas Mrs 65 Hemming Thomas

67 Mayneord Mrs. Elizabeth, dairy here is Johnstone street

71 Nicholson Miss Mary Jane, beer rtlr 73 Davies Henry John

75 Clarke Edward

77 Thomas George

79 Taylor Mrs

81 Godby John Henry

85 Morton Edward, draper 87 Ingram Thomas

89 Ash William Brown

91 Brusia Daniel Francis

93 Green Mrs 95 Moretou Charles 97 Gibson William Frederick 99 Ifosfbrd Richard 101 Wilson Joseph 103 Reading William 109 Gilbert James

here is Wood street

Ill Sheppard George, beer retailer 133 Fellowes Edward 130 Proverbs William Griffiths 137 Mansell George

149 Stanley John Sc Son, dyers 149 Stanley William here is Ladywood road

6 Marshall Mrs

8 Turner George 10 Brazier Mrs 12Tliompson James 14 Styles George 16 Armer James, builder 18 Restall George Thomas

22 Town son Frederick

26 Ward Henrv William

28 Wright John Meddins 30 Williams Thomas John

32 Marriott Samuel

34 Day Francis 36 Maurice Mrs

38 Cook Robert

40 Welsh William

42 Smith Miss

44 Field Barney

46 Everton Thomas Henry

48 Sumner John, beer retailer

52 Webb John it Co. brass founders

54 Grimes William, itti Nicholas Mrs

58 Tucker James

60 Smith Alfred

62 Wilson Thomas

70 Buttery Philip

72 Busby Mrs

76 Hootbn John

78 Westwood Mrs

80 Weitwood Charles

82 Griffin William

84 Child John

86 Bees Rowland Frederick

90 Sears John

92 Nicholls Joseph

94 Gardner John

96 Jones Mrs 98 Moor James M ait land 100 Skinner George 102 Justice Thomas 106 Taylor George 108 Sankey John 110 Harris Caleb

Ampton road, Edgbuston , Sir Harry's road to Carpenter rood.

1 Everitt Mrs. (Southwood lodge)

2 Keep Mrs. (Ampton lodge)

3 Goodman John Dent.J . i\( Peachfielil ) here is Arthur road

4Thoinason Henry Richard Yeoville

6 Coudrey Thomas Wm. nurseryman

7 Street George, parish beadle

8 Jonas Isaac (Fal flight)

9 Cobley Jmmo (Oakland house)

(Sunny»ide>

1 1 Barrow George

12 Redfern Thomas (Shenstone Ho here is Carpenter road.

13 Hodgson Miss (Lawn house)

14 Bolton Francis Seddoti (Ashtield)

16 Barwell James (The Mythe)

17 Fisher Walter Newton (Altersea) Xational Schools

19 Petersen Theodor W. (The Cedars)

Pillah Letter Box here is Arthur road

Keen Arthur (Ueechfield)

Anderton road, Stratford road. Wilkinson George (Abbotstiird) Cale John, farmer (Hind's farm) Anderton Mrs. Sarah, farmer 24 Newton Williain James, beer retailr

150 Trewolla John, stationer

151 Turner Benjamin, hosier 29 Edwards Richard

34 Buchanan Henry 3"> Johnson Isaac

3* (('Connor Mrs. Octavia, school 44 Ells George, shopkeeper

Anderton Btreet, Summer hill.

1 Smith William

2 Ferris Edward [lay assistant to St.

3 Cole Edward

4 Davies Edwin

5 Bourne Swaine

6 Till Edward Bethany Chapel

15 Lucas Thomas, shopkeeper

27 Brotulev James Benj. beer retailer 29 Austin William, shopkeeper

Andover street, 41 Fazele.y street.

Royal Oah, Walter Hollis

Nock Thomas, kitchen range maker

(Standard foundry) Tenby Joseph Beverley Sc Co. camp furniture manufacturers

Angelina street, Vaughton street.

1 Harris Samuel Thomas, hnktr 29 Hickman John, coal dealer 29 Wootton Thos. P. who. cabinet ma 29 Hill Edward, wholesale boot maker 31 Clewer John, cabinet brass founder

33 Thompson Edwin, fibre drafter 67 Perry Geonre, beer retailer

hen- is Dymoke street

t>3 Bruce William, boot Sc shoe maker 71 Mitton Thomas, tailor 85 Cooling Sidney, saddle 80 Wier Mrs. Jane, shopkeeper 91 Webb Frederick, beer retailer

here is Ryland street

93 Pickering Robert, shopkeeper 95 Bayliss Samuel, haberdasher 103 AUchurch Thomas, greengrocer

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-16 Wykes William, architect k surrey or 40 Edwards Robert Rigden, accountant 40 Oldbury Brick Co. Limited,

R. R. Edwards, sec 4G Mutual Fire Insurance Corpora- Wright Kenyon.district manager 47 Fowke John Copson, solicitor 47 Patten Geo.King.accountnt.&auditr 47 Payne George, accountant

47 Birmingham Certified J dustriallW ?^?T\?T.?hiPld^l

105 Stoll Anthony Francis, shopkeeper 109 Franklin George, beer retailer 111 Johnson Kemp, builder Ii3 Ammsmith William, shopkeeper 131 Phelps George Albert, beer retailer ....here it Upper Highgate street... .

6 Perks Charles, coal dealer IS Weaver James, tailor 29 Smith George, shopkeeper 32 Flower John, beer retailer 3t> Hall William, china dealer 3* Frank James, shopkeeper Wilarlow Frederick James, dairy

here in Dymoke street. .......

60 Jones Thomas, baker Ac grocer

74 Bonehili William, photographer

75 Goode Joseph, shopkeeper Jenkins William, bootmaker (1 High-

gate Hill terrace) 861 Cook George, plumber Bannister John, butcher

Anglesey street, Lozellt, 192 Lozellt road.

1 Price Theodore, dentist 29 Turner Mrs 37 Wilkinson Mrs 41 Collins Charles Howard

2 Brown Joseph 4 De-Sanlles William Henry

144 Xewey John, shopkeeper 136 Hill man George, cab proprietor

Ann street, Nt >chall street.

13 4cl4BarberStephen4cSons,upholstrers|51 Mitchell Sydney John, solicitor

15 Sc 10 Lee Jno. It. Ac Co. wholesale ] 51 North Wancickshire Conservative

16 Harris, Martin Sc Harris, architects

10 Phipson Andrew Bond, architect Szc 16 Wbittock William, land surveyor 10 Palmer Alfred, stone merchant

Arthur road, Edgbaston, Church road to Carpenter road.

1 Dixon Wm. Henry (The Beeches)

2 Pearce Mr*. William (The Kims)

3 Glbbins Rd. Cadbury (Woodbourr.e)

4 Williams Wilfred (Allandalc)

5 Smith Frederick

7 M arris Geo. [councillor J (Rostellan)

here is Carpenter, road

10 Davenport John (East Lynn)

larp, sec

47 Snow 4c Atkins, solicitors

48 Perry John k Sun, stock & share bros 48 Scott Wm. Jas. stock 4c share broker 48 Wills Si Ncwey, solicitors 48 Rawliiurs Edward Bailey, solicitor 48 Rosber Wm. Henry Burch, barrister

48 Dundas Si Benison, solicitors

49 Birmingham General Provident A;

Benevolent Institution,

George H. Hodges, sec

50 Pearson William Hall, engineer 50 Wenhara Brothers&Agar.accountnnts

' Birmingham Syntltcate Limited, [ Chesterton CoalS,- IronCo. Limited \ Cwmorog Silver Lead Mining Co.

12 Williams Joshua (Richmond villa)

13 Keep Alfred (Stratford house)

14 Woodward Horace (Armscot house

Dmitry ft Oldbury Railway Co.

{ Homer Hill Colliery Co. Limited Alfred E. Wenharo, set 51 McClelland James, commission agent

a 17 Adams Francis, solicitor ? 17 Rowlands Jacob, solicitor 5 17 Daly Dominick, barrister - 17 Truman Joshua, insurance agent » 17 Bolton Thomas, ralcroacoplsts'

naturalists' studio § 17 Adderbwry Ironstone Co.

g 17 Eastern Estate jr Mining Co Bl7 Clark Charles Frank, auctioneer r$ 17 Tyler Thomas Gill, solicitor

17 Ac 18 Sabin k Stockley, pianoforte Lloyd's Banking Co. Limited,

Howard Uoyd, gen. manager Henry Mortimore, sec Francis C. Bourne, manager

here is Eden place

Musicipal Hall : - To'cn Clerk's Offices

Edwin John Hayes, town clerk Mayor's Parlour here are Edmund A; Congreve streets

south side. . .here are Paradise $ New streets. .

Christ Church here is Waterloo street

43 Crawlev, Parsons k Co. metal mers

44 Elliott's Metal Co. Limited 44 Smith Charles Cox, accountant

44 Birmingham Coffee House Co.

Limited, Chas. Cox Smith, sec 44 Green Alfred, solicitor 44 Gibbon* John Hall, architect 44 CopnerGeo.WhlttioghamSpencr.solr 44 Smith George Thomas, solicitor 4* Barnett Henry, stock k share

t> St.Clair St Steven* >n,auctionr. 4> Perry Frederick, solicitor, 44 Walter Alfred, solicitor, 4"< Salomon SI. Nerwich, solicitor George, auctioneer

Arthur street, 90 Coventry road.

1 Bishop John

2 Johnson Alfred

4 Riddall Mrs

5 Giles Thomas 0 Smith Samuel

7 Bartlett Mrs

8 Breasington William

10 Bradley Samuel

11 Mosedale Henrv

12 Sheldon Charles

13 Hawkins John

14 Wolder Frederick

15 Robinson Junes

16 Beard more ac Wearing, beer retailers

17 Brown Walter Charles

20 Crane Frederick Arbuckle

21 Kdginton Joseph

22 Joyner George, baker Registration Association, 2** Newman James, beer retailer

Sydney John Mitchell, sec :l» 0wen Mr»- Rosannah,

manufactrs.( Edward Clark, agent) 40 Hill Thomas, hair dresser

53 Martin 4c Chamberlain, architects f> Clarke George, beer retailer

54 Baker Daniel, Are 4c life insur. agnt 44 Peplow John Frederick, milliner 54 Powell 4c Browett, solicitors M BIrto Mr* Sarah, haberdasher

54 Star Life Assurance Society, 53 A>'re8 William, beer retailer ' Daniel Baker, district man Hiorns Joseph, coal dealer

55 Boraston John, solicitor 04 Parsons Alfred

55 Lander Joseph, estate 4c general agent Brazington Mrs. Harriet, dress raakr 55 Holland Geo. Robinson, conveyancer Gough Joseph, shopkeeper 55 Simons John Brindley, bouse agent Flude William, beer retailer 50 Whitehouse Arthur Edwd. architect .?8 Adcock Arthur Charles, , 50 Payne4cTallwt,architects4cpatentagU j!0^ Hughes John, butcher

109 Morris John, tobacconist 113 Eales John, tobacconist 111] Duffield John, tin plate worker 118 Randall Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper

127 Barmore Samuel, irrocer

128 Beaumont John (Blandford house)

1 White-James, basket maker

2 Baxter Mrs. Emma, newsvendor

4 Jones Mrs. Mary, hairdresser

5 Belcher John, blacksmith kc 0 Groocock Joseph, greengrocer 7 Adamson Thomas, grocer

56 London S; Southwark Fire 4; Life Insurance Corporation Limited, Joseph H. Peace, district man , here is Bennett's hill

Argyle street, from 80 Cuckoo road. 10 Masters Thomas, shopkeeper 156 Gilford Charles, shopkeeper 165 Lucas William, beer retailer

Armoury road, Small heath.

Birmingham Small A rms $ Metal \q Wykes James, baker k flour dealer

Co Limited, Major-General W. M. H. Dixon,

Arsenal street, Small heath, 133 Catlell road.

2 King Frederick 3Carr Mrs

4 Cooper Elias

5 Meakin Walter

17 Moss Thomas, grocer

18 Wbitmore Thomas, beer retailer 10 Gardner Thomas, shopkeeper

20 Griffin George, pork butcher

21 Habgood James, shoe maker 23Ethell Samuel

Edward, shopkeeper rook Wm. Arthur, pawnbroker j 38 Hopkins Frederick Eraser, surgeon 28 Clarke George, tailor :39 Parliament Houae, Charles Cox, 4c

30 Xormansrll Abraham, coal dealer brewer

Primitive Mbthodist Pkeacii-' 41 Harris Mrs. Jane, shopkeeper ixu Room |42 Tolley James, builder «c i

11 Bell Wm. Saml. plumber 4c gas fitter

12 Baldwin George, tailor

13 Sutton Sa/npson, butcher

here is Great Brook street

19 Isgrove Edward, shoeing smith 22 Parry William, vinegar dealer

here is Law ley street

25 Callow John, bird dealer

20 Perry Mrs. Susannah, corset maker Albert, beer retailer

30 Mackenzie James, furniture dealer

31 Palmer William, sen. tailor

32 Haynes Edgar, newsagent

33 Bagley Frdk. 4c Edwd. brass nulls. 4cc

34 Piper'Wm. 4c Co. kid reviver manfrs

35 Gregory Alfred

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48 (back of). ProsserJsph.carriage Wdr

49 Howlett Thomas, pi iimber.painter 4c

50 Stoddard William, dairyman

Saunders Samuel, cabinet locksmith Kimberley Benjamin, machinist 52 Dog St Partridge, George Ainge

54 Williams Mrs. Marv, shopkeeper

55 Day Thomas, hair dresser

57 Dorricott Rev. Isaac [Primitive

58 Wood Mrs. Eliza, tailoress

60 Reed & Price, gilt toy manufacture

61 Fisher William, tailor

62 (back of), Aston Prank, blacksmith 66 bushell John, beer retailer

Ashtbd how - continued. j 150 Griffith- Allen, boot Ac shoe 43 Gower Edward, dairyman 160 Adams Thomas, butcher

45 Wright William, wardrobe dealer . here is Henry street ....

46 Pieldhonse Richd.plumber,painter4c 161 Berkeley Rowland Hill, grocer

47 Jones John, marine store dealer 162 Jones W illiam, linen draper

48 (back of), RevnoldaThosJ.zinc wrkr 163 Cooper Mrs. Elizabeth, eonfeetionr

169 Horton Frederick, shoe i

170 Tonka John, linen draper

171 Wain Charles, grocer

173 Wood George, baker

174 Bennett William, greengrocer

175 Roberts Charles Bishop, milliner

176 Cottrell Joseph, "snfectioner

177 Fa wiry Cornelius, grocer

180 Powell Mrs. Annie, tobacconist

181 Crutchlev Henrv, butcher

46 Howe Henry, bird dealer 4c

48 Brown John, painter 4e

49 New Peacock, James Shaw here is the ( 'anal bridge Sc Fo

53 Whitehouse George VYm.pan

54 Trimnell William, undertaker

55 Orrell John, butcher

56 Morris Mrs. Emma June, tobacconist

57 Woolston Walter Samuel, grocer

58 Power Henry Horatio, com .lealer

61 Cooper Mrs. Eliibth . fried fi*h dealer

62 Clark Pater, beer retailer

63 Coley William, marine store dealer

64 Smith John, milksehVr

65 Crisp Miss Harriet, shopkeeper '70 Porter Nathaniel, cowkeeper 71 Kemp Albert, shopkeeper

73 Evuns William James, carpenter

76 Lloyd John, shopkeeper

77 Chapman George, undertaker

78 Lf* Mrs. Eleanor, shopkeeper

79 Jackson Henry, clothes dealer

187 & 188 Wilkinson Geo. 4c Co. brewers HO Spencer William, beer retailer

68 Smith Edward, fender St fire iron ma 180 Pepler Edward Chas. beer retailer

here is Henry street

72 Waldron Henry, i

iron ladle maker. See advert

73 Smith Mrs

75 Filter Robert

77 White William A

78 Utile William, middle class school 79480 Wri«htChaa.Prs.*team gauge ma

81 Duce William

82 Hodgkiss William, bnikier

83 Harrison John,

85 Tolley William

86 Butler Charles

87 Bodflsh Stephen H8 Read Mr*. Harriet, tailoress 80 & 90 Hadley Clement, surgeon

91 Adams Joseph, insurance agent

92 Power Miss Sarah Ann, ladles' school

11)1 Bradbury James boot 4c 192 Hurst John, shopkeeper 194 Pell John 4k Co. hardware

202 Cattell Thnma*. corn merchant

203 Birmingham Vinegar Brewery Co

(John Tompson St Co.)

Pillar Letter Box

here is Dartmouth street

21 1 Horton Thomas, coffee rc

212 Parker James, felt hat rn

213 Hawkins Charles, hair

214 Taylor Thomas H. toy dealer fee

215 Brookes Mrs. Eliza, greengrocer here is Holt street

216 Kemp 4c Tabberner, drysaJters St oilmen. See advertisement

^0 (back of) Stoney Thomas, bricklayer S3 Bunford David, tobacconist

87 Bark Ernesto, sunrenn nts87 James William, carpenter A builder

88 WildgooseWilliain, ink maker 89J Hadley Elijah, bootmaker 00 Marlow Mrs. Hannah, shopkeeper

93 Hawkins George, tailor

94 Turnell Geo. Miles, Albion iron fi.dry Ai re is Dartmouth street

!Ni Clulee '

Willis street Linford Mrs. Ann, hosier

<J3 Tavlor Charles

94 Wills Richard

95 White Miss Hannah, boarding school

96 Knight James

97 Jerfrv Joseph t

98 Taylor Miss

99 Green Thomas, hardware factor

100 Suckling Samuel

101 Cattell Thomas 109 Hands Henrv .hers is Vauxhall road.. . .

115 Roberts Thomas, beer retailer

116 Cole William, baker at

117 Alder Henrv, greengrocer

118 Dunn Daniel, furniture

120 Bloomer Samuel, newsag.

121 Walter Walter W. tailor

123 Gosnell George, plumber St painter

128 Knight James

129 Emmerson James, 1:30 Willatt Isaac

132 Taylor Henry W

133 Boucher Mrs

135 Reynolds William Georgi

137 Bodin Thomas,

138 Hunt James 138J Wilcox John, baker here is Willis

142 Brailey John, ivory

143 W right Charles

218 Aldridge Mrs. Mary Ann, laser retlr 2l!t Hawkesford Charles, tobacconist

220 Parsonage William, batcher

221 Middleton Stephen, china 4c glass dlr

222 OldBlach II .„*,: Wm. WihwuPaget r Htf CoWngwood Henry, rowkeeper

100 Reynolds Thus, tobacco pipe

101 Smith William & Son, paint

105 Shaw Thomas, metal reHner

106 Whitehouse Isaac, brass founder Johnsons; Co. electro plate ( Crown

here are Herbert st. Aston Brook Sf Mill 'i r st. 3f commencement of Aston road north

Lloyd's Bank (branch),

Charles J. Hickling, manager 175 Allen James, jun. beer retailer

Aaton road, 15 Gosta green. See also Aston road north.

2) Dearn James, hair cutter St

3 Bevens William,

3i Edwards Thomas, upholst 4Tottey Peter, gasfitterJcc

177 Gould John, baker

178 Trobridge William, brass founder 178a, Bodin Arthur Edmund, tailor 178b, Howson Mrs. Mary Anne, pawn-

178b, (back of) Pratt George, builder X ale agent

179 Matthew* Henry Arthur, boot St

7 Saxton William James, builder 4c

engine case maker

8 Wilkes John, beer retailer

9 BeaMey William, painter

11 Bartlatn William, furniture dealer

12 Groves Richard William, painter

181 Hirdu Johii, beer retailer 181 Hinks Thomas, pump maker 1*2 Mason William, shoeing smith 1 83 Butcher M atthew 4c Son, coach blJrs

185 Hagger Robert, news agent

186 Cumi Josiah, fancy deaitr

187 H'Aife Hart, Benjamin J . Turner

14 Dowling Wm. Hy. insnrance agent here is Braccbridgc street

15 Woolf Thomas, furniture dealer 187 J Brown David Leabown, furniture

16 McDonald Angus, travelling draper broker 4c dealer

18 Chiles Joseph, brush manufacturer here is Allesley street

]!- Timmins W illiam, tool broker 1 188 HaslerUlrich, watch ma.4c pliotgrphr

22 Lawrence Alex. who. saddlery wan- Pillar Letter Box . . here are Holt street 4r Love lane . . 189 Cattell Thomas Bellamy, chemist S3 General Wolfe, Thomas Clulee, jun 190 Smith William, fruiterer 24 Dance Miss Frances Annie, beer retlr 191 Smith Henry Holt, butcher

2j Morton Thomas, tripe dresser

144 Butler Miss Elizabeth, mantle maker 26 Grindrod Samuel, painter

146 Blockley Miss Elubth.ladies' school 27 Sheasbv William, beer retail..

147 Gretton Benjamin

148 Wright James

149 Sbeppev Mrs

150 Pearce'Hiram

151 Ry land James,

152 Denning John S. linen draper

155 Jennings Mrs. Ellzbth, 1,tj6 Causer John, tin plate worker

157 Eusor Edgar, news agent

158 Atlcock Robert, milliner

32 Clulee 4c Co. timber 4c slate

Public Weighing Machine 34 Trevor Fraa. coal dir. ( Aston rd.whf) 3j ClampWm.4cSon,casting pot Free Frederick 4c Co. coal

Wells Edwd.coalacc. 40 Cooper Charles, shopk

193 Cooper Wra.4 Son.oilfc gas lampiua

194 Slaughter George, pork batcher

195 Clews Jas. brass candlestick maker 1!H> Rigby Joseph 4c Son, factors

196 Highv Joseph. n:n niaimRictun-r

197 Lawley Sam brook, spoon 4t fork ma 199 Richardson Thomas, Laker

here is .\'ejc J ohn street,

201 Cockram Joseph, grocer

43 4c 44 Tucklev Tbos. 4c John, saw mills :201a, JohnsonThs. Hmpso»,)inendraper 45 Butler Jas.4Son,enginra.4ironfndrsJ202 Gibson James, stamper 4c piercer

Digitized by Gooq

3K Turner John, greengrocer 209 Thompson St Pick, corn dealer* 211 Bellamy Thos. wire work Hi Walker -lame*, stationer 212 3 Court James, draper

59 Cooper (Miss) Sarah Ami. ladies" scld 10 Brown Charles, draper 61 Ladburv Mark, furniruro broker | 1 1 Etherington Mr*. I*abella,pnwnbrokr 63 Hoare Reginald Ratclitfe. surgeon 11 (back of ) Brown William, dairyman 71 Hicfl Thomas, wheelwright St shoe- 1*2 Tullett Richard Wm. linendraper

ingamith 13 Mulraster George, boot St shoe manufr

73 Jacobs Jacob, glass jt color dealer 14 Bushy George, wire worker & weaver Oxford Gymnasium | 14 Tabberner George, ironmonger

Malins William, painter 4tc (16 Stephens Torn, provision dealer

Barrett St Co. mineral water manufr* 16 Adcoek George, fruiterer

here is Pritchett street j - -here are Rocky lane, LichJieldSj Park 17 Slaughter Edwin, pork butcher

83 Duke of York, William Maya

214 Walker Mark Andrew, hair cutter

215 Simpson George Harper, baker

216 Boiler William, cl

220 Waahbourne Albert,

221 Canning William, boot maker

222 II axel tine Joseph, butcher

223 Budden Alexander Gerard, baker

224 Ball Charles, fishmonger

i Hadley Mrs. Mary, shopkeeper

Bayliss Henry, gun barrel maker

roads Sf Park lane

2 Prinn John, hair dresser 4 Welch John, fruit St Hsh dealer 6 Douglass David, fried Hsh i 6 Upton Thomas, tobacconist

10 Procter Samuel, pork butcher

It* Cooper Alfred, tailor lit Sadler Michael, electric apparatus ma

20 Bill John Richards, grocer

21 .Nieholhv Stephen Charles, butcher

22 Mc Ken tie MissAnnie B. confectioner

23 Wells Thomas, hosier

24 Lawrence James H v. furniture broker Xoake Frederick.' refreshment house 26 Watkins Hv.jun. watch St clock ma

here is Phillips' street 26 Clark Jo*«ph, refreshment house

12 Butler Tom4cHarry,nionumntl.musn» here is Gem street

14 SimmonsThos.Wm.corainercl. trvllr 31 Kichards William, cabinet maker 16 Chellingworth Miss MarianneJadies' 32 Hughes Frederick, tobacconist

school 33 Phillips James, beer retailer

15 General //crc/wA.Thomas Godwin 34 Wills Williaro,manufr. of punches itc

20 Webster William 34 Brooke William Robt. pawnbroker

22 Sturges Mrs 36 Wilton John, Jun. butcher

Ha'rvev Js»h^Cha* i^n to^l borer -* Chaplin Joseph, furniture dealer 36 Daniel John, pork butcher Haoej Jspu.Cbas. gun barrel boret r ^ JpowM .)? aadUnd William, provision dealer

tiere w ^agot street ^6 Drew Henry 38 Barrows Joseph St Son, wine raerchts

228 Royal Elephant, George Savage 28 Bromage James 30 Bobbins Charles, leather merchant