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• Rugeley & District Bill Posting Co. Brook square Tingay John Webster, baker & confectioner, 31 Upper Bugeley District Hospital &. Provident Dispensary Brook street (Richard Freer M.A., M.D.. B.C.Cantab., L.S.A..; Tompson 0. & Sons, plumbers, painters & gaa1itt81'1, ~-a Harry Dugard Chapman L.B.C.P. & L.R.C.S.Edin.; Market street A.. C. McVittie B.A..,.. M.B., tB.Ch., B ..A..O.; H. A. · Tompson James, clothier, 12 Upper Brook street Bull M.R.C.8.Eng., L.B.O.P.Lond. & J~ Harry Clarke Tooby George, chimney sweep, 32 Queen street. L.M.S.S.A.. medical Dfficers; Harold Hatton Tooth William, district superintendent Refuge Inm~ L.D.S.R.F.P.S.Glas. "Surgeon-dentist; Alfred Brad- ance Co. 31 Market street ford, general sec.; Miss Sharp, matron), Brereton rd Town & Market Halls (John Wallbank, collectOl'), Puti,. Rugeley Gas Co. (Abner Craddock, sec. & collector). lie buildings Forge road Toy William &i Son, butchers & farmers, 13 A.nson at Rugeley Habitation Primrose League (John C. Fergu~o· Toy Austin, shopkeeper, 19 Sheep fair son, sec.), 66 Church street · Toy .Austin John, butcher, 14 Upper Brook street

Rugeley Industrial Co-operative Society Limited (Henry 1 Tnnnicliff William & A.lgernon Rose, bakers & confeo. Waiter Bush,. manager), Lower Brook st. & Bow st tioners, 9 Market place Rugeley Jubilee Library (Thos. E. Wood, sec.), Bow st Turner Thomas, cabinet maker, 63 Heron street Rugeley Laundry Co. Lower Brook street Upton Bros. butchers, 7 Lower Brook st. & Albion at Rugeley Mercury (.A.llison & Bowen Limited, of Lich- Upton Edward, fried fish dealer, 19 A.lbion street field, proprietors & publishers; published friday); Upton George, bill poster, Green lane office, Brook square Upton Henry, farmer, Heathfields fa.,..rmm Rugelf'!y Progressive Working Men's Club (Frank 1 Upton William Henry, butcher, 7 Upper Brook .street Saunders, sec.), A.nson street Wade A.lice (Mrs.), dress maker, ~4 Talbot street Rngeley Rifle Club (Col. W. A. Wetherall, hon. sec) Wallbank John, assistant overseer for Brereton. clerk to Rugeley Tennis Club (G. H. Grnmmitt, sec) Brereton Parish Council, collector of general rates & Rugeley Unionist Association (John C. Fergussonl hon. market & fair tolls to the Rugeley Urban -Districl sec.), 66 Church street Council & deputy registrar of births, deaths & mar. St. .Anthony's Convent (Sisters of the Christian Re- riages for Rugeley sub-district, union, 5~ treat) (Rev. Mother Mary Bernard, lady superiorrss; Lichfield street Bey, Felix Collet, chaplain), Heron court, Heron st Watkiss Herbert, Red Lion inn, 13 Market street Sanders Samuel, draper & clothier, Market square Watkiss William, Malt Shovel inn, Elmore street Sells Charles, shopkeeper, 7 Arch street Watson Harriet (Mrs.), dress maker & sewing machine Sharratt Harry, farmer, The Moors agent, 22 Market street Sharratt Samuel, shopkeeper & beer retlr. 122 Brereton rd Wheat Alfred James, manager of Lloyds Bank, Lowet Sharratt William, shopkeeper, 1:13 Upper !Brook street Brook street Shaw A.lbe:rt E. watch & clock repairer, 7 Bow street White Thomas, boot & shoe repairer, 77 Arch stree~ Shrewsbury Arms Hotel (Harry Head, proprietor), 2 Whitehouse David, boot repairer, 23 .A.lbion 1t:reet Market street. T N 1:98 Whittingham George, builder, Sheep fair Shropshall Williarn. farmer, Portobello, Wolseley road Whitworth .!.. & Sons, grocers, bakers, corn & provision Simkin William B. house & estate agent, 7a, Horse fair merchants & agents to the Royal Insurance Co. 19 Smith Ellen (Mrs.), a parts. & fried fish dlr. 19 Market st Market place Southwell Charles, shopkeeper, 61 Arch street Wigham Onthbert Thomas, grocer, 29 Horse fair Spittall .Frederick, clerk & cashier, Marquess of Anglesey Willis Henry, shopkeeper & baker, 9 Horse fair estate office, Crossley stone Wilson Louisa Mary (Mrs.), watch & clock maker, as Stevens Wm. Hy. ladies' & gentlemen's hair dresser &. Upper Brook street tobacconist, 3 Upper Brook street Wilson Robert Edward, greengrocer, 15 Horse fait Stokes & Co. tanners, Phrenix tannery Winterton & Sons, auctioneer~, estate agents &; nluers, Sutton & Co. carriers (Pascoe & Sou, agents), Brook sq 22 Market street Territorial Foree Battalion (6th) Prince of Wales' (North Wood Frederick, printer & stationer &c. Lower Brook '* Regiment) (D Co. Capt. H . .!.din Hull; Wood Kathel'ine (Miss), girls' school, 23 Horse fair Color-Sergt. J. Grocett, drill instructor); head Wri~?ht Arthnr, shoe maker, 40 Horse fair quarters, Public buildings Wrig-ht James, carman, Brereton road & Thomas William, blacksmith carpenter, Sheep fair Wright John, butcher, 59 Horse fair • Thompsou Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper, 5 Albion street Young Francis, draper, 3 Horse fair Thompson Peter, insurance agent, 3 A.lbion street

R USHAJ,.L is a parish and village on the Lichfield in memory of her father and mother, the Rev. Ho~ce rC'ad, II5 miles by rail and ,119 by road .from London, Chavasse M.A. formerly vicar of this parish and Ma~ and Ii north-north-east from , and is the head j?aret (Colquhoun) his wife. Here are the l'uins- of of a petty sessional division, :in the Handsworth division Rushall Hall, an ancient mansion, which, during the of the county, South Offlow hundred, partly in the wars b('tween the houses of York and Lancaster, "Wal parliamentary and municipal borough of Walsall, Wal­ strongly fortified, and in the Civil War was defended aall union and county court district, rural deanery of by a numerous garrison ; the Castle or Court wae Walsall, archdeaoonry of Stafford and diocese of Lich­ erected by one of the Harpers, wn old family residen• field. The South Staffordshire Water Works Company here in the time of Edward Ill. ; the arms of the supply the inhabitants with water. The Walsall and founder Le Harpeur: "argent, a lion rampant within extension of the Midland railway passes a bordure engrailed sable," appear on an ornamental through the parish, the nearest station being at Aid­ escutcheon over the key-stone of the arched gateway ridge, about 2 miles distant. The church of St. near to the church; the walls are of rough limestone Michael is an edifice of stone in the Gothic style, and of immense strength. The Harpers, descended consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, aouth porch and from a family which had held Rushall since the Sax~ an embattled western tower with pinnacle& and spire period, were the ancestors of the Leighs, who trans... containing 5 bell&: the church was rebuilt in the year mitted the estate by marriage to the Mellish family, 1858 and the tower rebuilt and the nave extended 30 and these to the families of Bnchanan and Mellish, feet in 1867, at the sole cost of the Right Hon. Sh -who now hold it : the Hall is now the residence of George Mellish P.C.: here was buried Edward Leigh SamuPl Harvey esq. and, with the ruins, forms • M.A.. of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, a layman of the 17th picturesque object from the adjoining highway, and a eentury, and M.P. for Stafford in the Long Parliament, portion of the ancient moat may be clearly traced t as well as a colonel in the Parliamentary army; he died two cannon balls, relic• of the CiTil War, are preserved, at Bushall, June 2, 1671: there are 400 sittings, of and others have been found on Ryecroft Hill, about which 200 are free. The register of baptisms dates three-quarters of a mile hence. The inhabitants are from the year 1686; marriages, 1734; burials, 1771. engaged in mining and husbandry. The Mellish family, The living is & vicarage, net yearly value £254, includ­ who are lords of the manor, Lord Hatherton C.M.G. ing 69 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the and Beanmont Thomas Fetherston esq. of Ryton-onJ trustees of the Mellish family, and held since 1909 by Dunsmore, Warwickshire, are the principal landowners. the Rev . .Arthur Thomas Surman Talbot M.A.. of Pem­ The soil is principally clay; subsoil, coal and limestone. broke College, Cambridge. The living was endowed by The chief crops are wheat, oats and beans. The area ii John Harper esq. and the church was rebuilt in 1856. 1.233 llerM, inclusive of r6 of water; rateable value of There is a small iron mission church in the village the parish, exclusive of the portion thereof in the borough seating about 120, a Congr('gational chapel with Sunday of Walsall, £8,187; the population in 1901 of the civil school at Rnshall, and a Wesleyan chapel and Sunday parish, and not included in the borough of Walsall, WBI school at HPath End. Two almshouses were erected 2,485, and that of the ecclesiastical parish, St. Michael, here in 1886, and endowed in 1907 by Miss Chavasse, 7·943·