DmECTORY.] STAFFORDSHIRE. BRIERLEY HILL• 63 • Wilkes Charles, baker surgeon & medical officer & public Wood Henry, cooper, Bargate Wills Arthnr Thomas L.R'.C.P.I., vaccinator, Brewood district of Can- Yeomans Arth. Wm. draper,Market sq L.R.C.P. & S.Ed., L.F.P. & S.Glas. nock union, The Laurels
BRIERLEY HILL. BROCKMOOR, BRETTELL LANE, QUARRY BANK .AND HART'S HILL. BRIERLEY IDLL is a market town with a station on the decorative and art glass; iron rolling mills; boiler works;' West Midland section of the Great Western railway, about and nail, chain, anchor and spade factories. Bacon-curing 2! miles south-west from Dudley, 24! from Worcester, 9 is carried on, and glass bottles and spirit jars are made south from Wolverhampton, 29! from. Stafford, n! west here. The Stourbridge canal and the Bixmingham canal from Birmingham, 2! north-east from Stourbridge, 9! both pass through the place and have branches extending from Kidderrninster and 19! from Droitwich ; it is an to the various iron, coal, glass, and fire-brick works. ecclesiastical parish in Kingswinford civil parish, Kings The agricultural operations in this parish are but small, winford division of the county, North Seisdon hundred, the inhabitants being almost wholly occupied in manu Kingswinford and W ordsley petty sessional division, Stour factures. The market days are Tuesday and Saturday. bridge union, county court district of Stourbridge, rural The population of the civil and ecclesiastical parish (St. desnery of Himley, archdeaconry of Stafford and diocese Michael) in Igor wa!f 12,042; the area is 1,024 acres; of Lichfield ; under the proTisions of the " Boundary Aot, rateable value, £42,466. I868," Brierley Hill, with Brockmoor and Quarry Bank, Sexton, John Lloyd, South street. are included in the parliamentary borough of Dudley. Brockmoor is a populous district, half a mile north-west The town, which consists of one principal and several from Brierley Hill, and was formed into an ecclesiastical smaller streets, is paved throughout, lighted with gas, parish, Sept. IS, I844, from that of Kingswinford. The and supplied with water by the South Staffordshire Water church of St. John, Brockmoor, is a cruciform building of Works Company; it is governed by an Urban District firebrick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, Council of 18 members, first elected in 1894 (which, under nave, transept, west porch and a small western turret the provisions of the "Local Government Act, 1894.'' 56 containing one bell : the stained east window is a. memo and 57 Vict. cap. 73, succeeded the Local Board, first rial to the late Rev. William Atherton, a former vicar, &lected in 1867). St. Miohael's ecclesiastical parish was and also commemorates the 6oth year of the Queen's formed Nov. 29th, 1842, out of Kingswinford; the church, reign; it was restored during the period I878-8g, and situated on the summit of a hill commanding an exten affords soo sittings. The register dates from the yeal' sive view, is a plain cruciform building of red brick, con 1844· In the churchyard is a monument, erected by sisting of chancel, nave, transepts and an embattled west public subscriptions, to seven workmen who met with ern tower with pinnacles containing a clock and 8 bells; it was originally erected in 1766, enlarged in I823 and thei:r deaths from a boiler explosion at the works qf again in 1837, and during the period 1873-88 the interior Messrs. Brown and Freer, Brockmoor, IIth Oct. 1887. was renovated ai a cost of £Boo, the chancel being raised The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £183, in the gift and a new pulpit erected : four stained windows have of the {~own and the Bishop of Lichfield alternately, and been inserted, two of which were presented by J. Corbett held since 1899 by the Rev. Charles Bell B.A. of the Uni esq. M.P. and the others by member(! of the congrega versity of London. Here are also Wesleyan and Primi tive Methodist chapels. A large proportion of the in tion; the total cost amounted to £2,682: the organ was habitants find employment at the extensive iron and coal erected in 1844 at a cost of £450, and has since bean re works in this locality. The population (ecclesiastical built and enlarged at a cost of £320: there are 1,516 sit tiDgs, of which 700 are free. The register dates from parish) in I90I was 3,836. the year IJ66. The living is a rectory, net yearly value Sexton, John Burns. £270, with residence, in the gift of the rector of Kings QU.!JRRY BANK is also an ecclesiastical parish, formed winford, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Herbert Hen Sept. 18, 1844• out of Brierley Hill, and about I mile villa Dibben, who is a surrogate. The Mission church in south-east from Brierley Hill; it is governed by an Urbatl the Delph, erected in 1886 at a cost of about £1,150, con District Council of 12 members, first elected in 1894• sists of chancel, nave and a western porch, and has sit which, under the provisions of the "Local Government tings for about 400; the Rev.. John Pleming B.A. of Dur Act, 1894" (56 and 57 Vie. cap. 73), I!Uperseded the Local ham University, is curate in charge. The Catholic Board, first elected in 1867. Ohrist Church, a cruciform ohurch, dedicated to St. Mary, and erected in 1873 from building of firebrick in the Early English style, erected ill designs by Pugin, consists of chancel, nave and one aisle 1847 at a cost of £3,000, consists of chancel, nave and with baptistery and sacristy, and has 300 sittings. There transepts, and a small western turret containing I bell; are also Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, Baptist and it was re-decorated and refitted by subscription in 1882, Methodist New Connexion chapels. The Congregational and affords .700 sittings. The register dates from the chapel in Albion street, opened Dec. x882, is a structure year 1847· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value of red brick, erected at a cost of £1,8oo, exclusive of site, £300, with residence, in the gift of t.he Crown and the and will !!eat 6oo persons. The Town Hall, erected in Bishop of Lichfield alternately, and held since 1893 by the 1874• is a handsome building with an illuminated clock: ReV'. Thomas John McNulty M. A. of Trinity College, the larger hall has a galleryJand anteroom, and will seat Dublin. There are also Wesleyan, Methodist, New Con 8oo persons; here are the offices of the Urban District nexion and Primitive Methodist chapels here. The popu Council, and a public free reading-room with a library lation of both the civil and ecclesiastical parish in 1901 of about 2,633 volumes. There are various benefit and was 6,9I2; rateable value, £12,488. Area, 663 acres. l-and and building societies. Church hill has been laid Sexton, Henry Grifllths. out at a cost of about £350. The district is very hilly, and from the church tower upwards of twelve churches At Brettell Lane there are several potteries and large . may be seen, as well as the Habberley and 1Malvern Hills firebrick and iron works : plain and ornamental glass is in Worcestershire, tl;le Wrekin and Clee Hil1s in .Shrop also manufactured. Here are Wesleyan and Primitive shire, and the extensive grounds and parks of Enville, Methodist chapels. Hagley and Himley. Brierley Hill abounds in mineral Hart's Hil], one side of which is in Worces~ershire, productions, such as coal, ironstone, clay, and particularly forms a continuation of a thoroughfare from Brierley Hill fire clay, which has been worked for centuries. Here are to Dudley. Here is a Mission church and there are also also the extensive and well-known works of Messrs. Methodist New IConnexion -and Primitive Methodist Stevons and Williams, manufacturers of the fulest table, chapels.
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