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Corporation Fire Brigade Station, Bridge street, Alex­ VOLUNTEERS. ander Thomson, superintendent & 13 men; appliances, 2nd Volunteer Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment 2 steam & 1 manual engines, 3 escapes & over 3,000 feet (comprising A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H & I companies), of hose bead quarters of Battalion & A, B, C, D & I com­ County Court, held four days a month, at the Court house, paniPs, Whittimere street; Battalion staff: -Lieut.-Col. Lichfield street, His Honor W. Howland Roberts, judge; & Hon. Col. R. S. Williamson V.D. commanding; _Francis Richard Clarke, registrar acting as high bailiff. R. J. Thomas, major; Capt. T. Diver, adjutant; "The district comprises the following parishes or places : , quartermaster -Aldridge, Broadstone, Birchills, Bentley, Bloxwich, Wal_sa~ Companies :-A, Capt. E. A. Crump; B, Capt. C. - Blakenall, Brownhills, Bridgetown, Blackfords, Bescot, F1ddmn Green ; C, Capt. J. W. Booth; D, Capt. J. S. Brownhill, Great Barr, Catshill, Churchbridge, Can· Rob~nson; I,. Lieut. S. Griffit_hs; Rev. J. F. Laing, .nock, Chadsmoor, Cartbridge, Wood, Cald­ actmg-chaplam; Surgeon-MaJ. J". S. Wilson M.D. more, Cheslyn Hay, Coalpool, Daw End, Darlaston, medical officer; Sergeant-Major A.. Casling, instructor Delves, Fishley, Fallings Heath, Goscote, , .Harden, High Heath, Huntington, Heath Hayes, High 'Town, , Hayhead, Hawkes Green, James W ALSALL UNION. Bridge, Kingshill, Leamore, Little Bloxwich, Little 1Yyrley, Leighs Wood, Lazy Hill, Littleworth, Long· Board day, friday, fortnightly at the Workhouse at wood, Landywood, Mousehill, Millgreen, Moxley, Maw Io a.m Green, Newtown (Wednesbury), Newtown (Bloxwich), The union comprises the following places :-Aldridge, , Newton, Old Falow, Pelsall, Pelsall Wood, Great Barr, Bentley, Darlaston. Pelsall, Rushall, Walsall Pye Green Parkbrook, Parkhill, Palfrey, Pleck, Quees­ & Walsall Wood. The population of the union in I90I let, Powk Hill, Rushall, Rawnsley, Ryecroft, Rumer was 1 I8,6o7; area, 22,079 acres; rateable value, in Hill, Shelfield, Shire Oak, Stubbers Green, Vigo, Wal­ 1903, £381,329· sall, North Walsall, Walsall Wood, Wyrley, Wyrley Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, .Alfred Town, Wyrley Grove, Wedges Mills, Wimbury, West Hunt-Lewis, 29 Leicester street, Walsall Hill, Wednesbury & Wood Green Treasurer, Frederick Varum Hackett, Dis­ 'The registrar of the court is also District Registrar of the trict & Counties Bank, W alsall High Court of Justice Collector to the Guardians & Pay Clerk, Charles Laban, 'The Bankruptcy jurisdiction of the court extends to the L1ttleton street west district of Lichfield Oounty Court; Samuel Wells Page, Relieving Officers Blox.wich district, Samuel Thomas 50 Lichfield street, Wolverhampton, official receiver CJhurm, Bloxwich; Borough district, John Barnsley, Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law of Distress 38 Bradford street, W alsall ; Darlaston district, Enoch Amendment Act, I888" :-Charles Alfred John Bick­ Bruerton, Darlaston; Stafford Street district, "\Villiam ley, Florence house, Pelsall; Joseph Underhill Fellows, A. Slater, I25 Green lane, Walsall Lichfield street ; George William Fenton, The Haw­ Vaccination Oflicers-Aldridge sub-district, John Cbidley, thorns, Bradford street; Matthew Fox Harrison, SI Bl'ltts road, Walsall; Bloxwich sub-district, Jabez Lower Hall lane ; Leonard Cecil Philpot, 9 Vicarage st. ; Wootton, Bloxwich; Darlaston sub-district, Ann Wilkes, .James Thomas, 25 Albert street, Wednesbury; .A.lbert Church street, Darlaston; W alsall Bnb-district, Geo. F . Charles Fraser Wood, Bridge street, Walsall; Daniel Thompson, 123 Sandwell street, Walsall Lockett, Stafford road, Cannock; Joseph Wilkinson Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators-Ald:ridge district, .Adey, 36 Holyhead road, Wednesbury; Waiter D. For­ George James Silvers M.D . .A.ldridge; Bloxwich dis· :Syth, Leicester street, Walsall; James Watson, 7 Leices­ trict, .A.rthur James Martin M. D. Bloxwich; Darlaston ter street, Walsall; Ernest Waiter Llewellyn, Bridge district, Sidney Partridge M. D. Darlaston; Walsall street, Walsall; Frederick Hawley, 25 Goodall street, No. I district, William Henry McKinstry M.B., C.M. Walsall; Arthnr James Llewellyn, Bridge street; Thos. 38 Bradford street, Walsall; No. 2 district, Sidney H. Slynn, 40 Horton street, Darlaston; Thomas Ingram, Hawley M.B. Lichfield street, Walsall; No. 3 district, 25 Bernard street, Walsall; & Benjamin Gilbert, 57 James Francis O'Meara M.D. Wednesbury rd. Walsall Lichfield road, Walsall Superintendent Registrar, Alfred Hunt Lewis, 29 Leices­ Epidemic Hospital, Hospital street, Birchills ter st.; deputy, Waiter Lauriston Lewis, 29 Leicester st 'Free Library & Art Gallery, Goodall street, Alfred M or­ Registrars of Marriages, George F. Thompson, I23 Sand­ gan, librarian & curator of the Art Galleries, also well street, Walsall; deputy, Benjamin Gilbert, 75 branch, 23 Corporation street Bridge street, Walsall; Jabez Wootton, Harrison street, oGrand 'fheatre, Park street, Tht> Walsall Theatres Co. Bloxwich; deputy, A. B. Wootton, Harrison street, Lim. proprietor~ Bloxwich Imperial Theatre, Darwall street, Walsall Theatres Co. I Hegistrar8 of Births & Deaths, Aldridge sub-district, Lim. proprietorli Frank Chidley, Butts road, Walsall; deputy, Harry S. Inland Revenue Office, Excise department, 13 Bridge King, 91 Rntter street, Walsall; Bloxwich sub-district, street ; Harry Caws Burden, supervisor; Eugene Thos. Jabez Wootton, Harrison st. Bloxwicb; deputy, A. R. Prank Mullings, John Joseph Clarence Moran, James Wootton, Harrison street, Bloxwich; Darlaston sub­ 11ell, Harry Taffs & William Halpin, officers district, Ann Wilkes, Church street, Darlaston; Walsall !Literary Institute, Reauing Room, at Science & Art Insti­ sub-district, Thomas Hindsley, 4 Arcade balcony, Brad· tute, Bradford place, open IO a.m. to 6 p.m., founded ford street, Walsall; deputy, Benjamin Gilbert, 7i 1884, & has over I,ooo members, W. Hy. Robinson, Bridge litreet, W alsall hon. sec The Workhouse, Pleck road, about a quarter of a mile MaiOnic Lodge, St. Matthew (No. 539), meets ut the from the town, is a large & substantial building in the Dragon inn, the first thursday in the month Elizabethan style, erected in I838, at a cost of £7,600, ~emorial Cottages, I 13 Victor street, Edward Marsh, enlarged in 1842 & further enlarged in 188r & 1903, founder & supporter now available for 464 inmates; a separate infirmary !Public Baths, Lichfield street, Joseph Birchanall, i!upt building with 130 beds was added in I8g6; adjoining .Stamp Office, The Bridge, Wm. Henry Robinsou, distrbtr is a chapel, erected in 1876, for the use of the inmates; 'Tax Office, Leicester square, A.lan Edward Chinn clerk Rev. W. Felton B.A. chaplain; G. M. Fox M.R. C.S. to comnusswners;0 0 James A. Fowler, surveyar ' medical officer; William Totterdell, master; Mrs. Elsi& 'Temperance Hall, Freer street, Thomas Marshall, sec Totterdell, matron "Town Hall, High street Walsall & District Hospital, The Mount, Wednesbury PUBLIC OFFICERS. road; John Wood M.A., M.B. consulting physician· W. Oliver L.R.C.P. & S.Edin., A. J. Martin M.D. &, Assistant Overseers, Benjamin Gilbert, 75 Bridge street & .M.R.C.S.; G. Stead M.R.O.S., L.R.C.P., M.D.Brus­ John Garbett, 86 Lichfield street sels, physicians; F. Sydenham M.B., O.M., D.P.H. Certifying Factory Surgeon, James Scott Wilson M.D. 44 _physician & specialist; G. A. Phillips M.R.C.S.Eng., Bradford street L.S.A.., J. Scott Wilson M.D., C.M., D.P.H. & H. Shaw Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes, .A.lan Edward Chinn, M.D., 13.8., D.R.S.Durham, surgeons; Trevor Howell Leicester square M.R.C.S.Eng. & L.R.C.P.Lond. house surgeon; James Clerk to County Magistrates for Rushall Division, Waiter Williams L.D.S.R.O.S.End. dental surgeon; Samuel Lauriston Lewis, 29 Leicester street Welsh, sec. ; Sister .Agnes, matron Collectors of Assessed & Income Taxes, W alsall No. r dh;trict & Norton Canes & Pelsall, Jabez Wootton &; IMPERIAL YEOMA~TRY. Arthur R. Wootton, 75 Bridge street; for Walsall South Staffordshire (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) (part of district, Benjamin & C. H. Gilbert, 75 Bridge street; ~quadron A), Whittimere street; Major G. H. Hardy North district, Jabez & Arthur R. Wootton, joint collec­ m command; Capt. P. S. Foster, second in command; tors, 75 Bridge street; for Walsall No. 3 distriat, John .Squadron Sergeant-Major Veysey, drill instructor Chidley, Butts road