WORCESTERSHIRE. [POST OFFICE Scriven Alfred, Grocer, Halesowen 1'Oad Tinley Robert, Painter &C
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1020 NEWLAND. WORCESTERSHIRE. [POST OFFICE Scriven Alfred, grocer, Halesowen 1'oad Tinley Robert, painter &c. High street Shaw James, lamp dealer, Simm'!f lane TromansJames, boot & sho~ maker, Halesowen road ShawSamuel, tinman &c. Simm'slane Trow John, Hope, Cinder bank Sheldon Thomas, beer retailer, Baptist end Turley Robert, plumber & painter, High street Shropshire Union Railway ~ Canal Company, general Turner Moses, carpenter, Griffin street carriers, Sprin~ hill Turner 'William, coal master, Humble hole Shut James, White Lion, Bumble hole Voce WiIliam George, chemist, Sweet turf Skidmore Henry Parkes (repreRentatives ofthe la~), manu Walker J. G. &Son, chain & nail manufacturers,Cradley rd facturers of the patent wrought iron tubes, Atlas tube Walker W. E. & R. G. galvanized iron manufacturers & works. See advert merchants; manufacturers of the arrows brand of gal Smart Joseph, shopkeeper, 42 St. John's street vanized & corrugated iron, & every descriptioB of buckets, Smart William, farmer, New town chamber pails, waterloo scoops, foot baths &e. Spring Hill Smith George, tin plate worker, Darbyend works; & at Walsall Smith Samuel, shopkeeper, Halesowen road Walker WiIliam ElweIJ, agent for MelfoI'd Gunpowder Smith Samuel, shopkeeper, St. Thomas street Company, The Willows Smith Thomas, shopkeeper, 3 Hall street Walton William, charter master, Darby end Smith William, brewer &: maltster, Netherton brewery Warby John, British Oak, Darby end Smith William, White Swan, Bnpti~t end Ward Williams, shopkeepel', Hill street Southall Benjamin, shopkeeper, Simm's lane Weaver Samuel, boot & shoe maker, Bumble hole Spencer Herbert, shopkeeper, 12 Hall street Weston David, Victoria, Dlldley wood Sto,ffordshire Public Chain t A nchor Testing Company Westwood Adam, butcher & greengrocer, Darby end Limited (Matthew Kelly Reade, superintendent; Arthur Westwood Richard, Reindeer, Cradley road S. Williams, secretary) While Henry, shopkeeper, Halesowen road Stiles John, shopkeeper, 47 St. John's street White John, shopkeeper, Shnrn'!! lane Stokes Emanllel, shopkeeper, Withymoor WiIlams Evan, shopkeeper, 23 St. Thoma8 street Swindell & Co. manufacturers of scythes, chains & horse Willetts David, chain cable & anchor manufctI'. See advert nails, Withymoor works WiIletts David, Crown, Darbyend Sykes John, beer retailer, 16 St. Andrew's street Willetts Tsaac, Cottage Spring, Howling green Talbot Joseph, china dealer, 21 Church road Willetts John, butcher, Halesowen road Talbot Martha (Mrs.), haberda~her, Halesowen road WilIetts J oseph, Britannia, Northfield road Taylor Samuel, New inn, High street Willetts William, builder & grocer, Bowling green Thomas David, Brickmakers' Arms, Chapel street Woodall Brothers, iron boat builders & steam boiler make1'll,. Thomas William, haberdasher, 58 St. John street Bumble Hole works Tilley James, plumber k painter, Bumble hole Worrell Elihu, shopkeeper,34 St. Thomas street Tilley Silas, boat builder, Darhy end Wright George, wheelwri~ht, Cradley road Timmios Danl. surgeon, 23 High st; & at 200 High st.Dudley Young Charles, boot & shoe dealer, Northfleld , ' NEWLAND is a parish, anciently subject to the Priory quadrangle of handsome brick buildings, in the Gothic eot of Great Malvern, 2 miles north-east from Great Malvern, tage style, and were erected by the trustees of John, third 6 south-west from Worcester, and 1 mile north-east f!'Om Lord Beauchamp; hill bequest was £60,000 (with the Malvern Link station on the Great Western railway, situate accumulation of interest, amounting to £70,000), for the on the road from Worcester to Malvern, in the Western erection of almshouse8 at Newland for 12 or some lar~er division of the county, Lower Pershore hundred, Upton-on- number of poor men or wnmen who should have been em" Severn union, Great Malvern county court district, rural ployed in agriculture, provided that R suitahle piece of land deanery of Powick, and archdeaconry and dioce~e of Wor- for a site should be givt'n within a twelvemontb of his cester. The churCh of St. Leollard is R handsome building decease: the Hon. Charles Grantham Scott, his nephew and in the Early Decorated style, erected by the trustees of the heir to the Newland estate, gave the ground; the establibh.. Beauchamp Charity, in lieu of the ancient parish church, ment at present consists of a warden, a clerk, and 2() a remarkable wooden structure of the time of Edward IlL, pensioners, who, in R'ldition to three rooms rent free, re which was taken down in 1864: tbe walls of the churoh are ceive sums varying from lO~r to 78.611. weekly, with coals exquisitely decorated with paintings in "spiritfresco," the and medicine. Earl Beauchamp is lord of the manor and offerings of private persons. The register dates from the principal landowner. 'j'be soil is stiff; subsoil, marl and year 1572. The living is an endowed vicaralle, gross yearly clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, beans, seeds and value £60, in the gift of the Beauchamp trustees: the vicar a few hops. The area is 800 acres; rateahle value, £2,676; is likewise warden of the Beauchamp Charity, for which he the population of the pari~h iu 1871 was 220. Letters are receives a stipend of £200 a year, witb a residence; the Rev. received through Great Malvern. Th~ nearest money order James Skinner, M.A., late fellow of Durham University, is office is at Malvern Link. PILI,AR POST, Newland green, the vicar. The Beauchamp almshouses form two sides of a cleared 5.10 p.m.; sundays 9.50 a.m Harring-ton William Hellary William, Slcan Thurston Henry, farmer, Newland ldg- Harris Misses, Ben lake Matthews Joseph, farmer, Monk fields Webster Baron Dickinson, farmer, fruit Skinner Rev. James, M.A. [vicar], Russell James, farmer & hop grower, & cider merchant, Newland court Warden's lodge Newland grange West Ethelbert, clerk to the trustees of Batchelor James, grocer Thomas John, blacksmith the Beauchamp Charity NORTHFIELD is a parish, and !ltation on the Bir I)f ease at Bartley Green, likewise named St. Michael's. A mingham and Bristol (Midland) Railway, in the Eastern charity school IS supported with the income arising from division of the county of Worcester, hundred of Upper the bequest of £433 6s. 8d. by the late Mr. IJoyd, and Halfshire, King's Norton union, Birmingham county court another of £100, in 1779, by the Rev. Mr. Soley. The Pri district, diocese and archdeaconry of Worcester, and rural mitive Methodists have a chapel at Woodgate. Here are deanery of Droitwich, 6 miles south-west-by-south from extensive brick works. There are some remains of Weoley Birmingham by road. The small river Rea and the Castle, 2 miles north-west, formerly belonging to the J ervoist Birmingham and WorCf'ster and the Netherton canals run family. The principal landowners are Mr. M. Grove, Miss throug'h the parish. The church of St. Michael is in the Ryland, Mr. H. Atkins, and Mr. W. H. Dawes. The soil Early English and Decorated styles, and has chancel, nave is loam; subsoil, clay and sand: there are also quarries and aisle, with square embattled tower containing 6 bells, of freestone. The chief crops are wheat, oats and barleyr with a Norman door: there are eight stained windows; The parish is, for local purposes, dividQd into the Yields of subjects, St. Michael and All Angels, The Ascension, The Selly, 2 miles north-east, Hay, Shendley, and Bartley. The Resurrection, Christ Turning the Water into Wine, The area is 5,951 acres, and the population. iD 1871 was 4,609. Raising of Lazarus, The Transfiguration: the subject ofthe Moore Street, Woodgate and Bartley Green are in this east window in the aisle is The Epiphany; it was erected parish. to the memory of Major-General Sir William Clarke, Parish Clerk, George DuttOll. bart. The register dates from the year 1500. The living Sexton, George Dutton. is a rectory, including Costoo Hackett, rated in the -~• parish register at £1,170 yearlr, with residence, in the POST OFFICE.-George Dutton, receiver. Letters arrive gift of the Fenwick family, and held by the Rev. Henry from Birmingham at 7.45 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. The Clarke, ~I.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. There is a chapel nearest money order office is at Selly Oak.