DIRECTORY. J STAFFORDSHIRE. OLD IDLL. 325 .la.mea J. W. baker, Silver Street Price Alfred, tailor W alsall Wood Colliery Co. Limited, ..Tayne Thomas, stationer & news agnt Price Fred Alwynne, shopkpr.High st colliery proprietors & brick & tile ..Tohnson William, shopkeeper, High st Robarta George, grocer manufacturers (H. C. Peake, man- ..Tones Elizh. (Mrs.), greengro.& grocr Roberts Geo.Henry, decorator,High st aging director; F. G. Peake, sec.) . Kent Sarah Ann (Miss),drapr.High st Roberts William, Station hotel, T A "Bradford;" T N 19 King John, boot maker, High street wholesale & retail wine & spirit Warner Bupert, beer retailer,Ogley sq Kingston Thos. beer retlr. Ogley Hay merchant & brewer, & music hall Whitfield Arnott, coal agent, Chase London & North Western Railway Co. Roobottom Tom, boot & shoe wareho Town wharf forwarding agents (Harry Holmes, Rowley Elizabeth (Mrs.), fruiterer, Whittingham Harriet (Mrs.), shop' agent), Brownhills station Ogley Hay keeper, Watling Street Lydall Edward, Royal George P.H Bowley John, grocer, High atreet Wood Thomas, secondhand clothier, Merideth Fk. Wm. shopkpr. High st Rowley Tertius,farmer, Ogley Hay fm High street Middleton George Edward, furniture Sanders Wm. Alfd.frmr.Middleton hse Woodhouse Wm. beer retlr. High st dealer, High street SaycheEmma(Mrs.),shpkpr.Church hl Yates Thomas, Anglesea Arms P.H. Metropolitan Bank (of England & Seedhouse Eruest,Warrener'sArmsP.B Watling street Wales) Limited (sub-branch) (W. Seedhouse Henry, farm bailiff to OGLEY HAY RUBAL. ll. Mar shall, mgr. ), open fri. 10.30 exors. of the late William Roberts PRIVATE RESIDENTS. to 1.30 ; draw on head office, 6o esq. Lodge farm . Gracechurch street, London E C Shaw J oe H. surveyor to Brownhilb Letters should be addressed Lichfield. Moore Sarah (Mrs.), beer retailer. Urban District Council, Pelsall road Baker Mrs. Walsall ~oad . Watling Street Simpson Enoch, grocer Hall Hum~hrey, Sprmghill . . Mosedale Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeepr. Smith Henry, blacksmith J ackson Miss, Laurel cot. Sprmghill Lichfield road Starbuck Thomas, butcher, High at Mantle Mrs. Melrose ho. Walsall rd Myring Albert Henry, insurance Station Drug Stores, High street To~bes Mrs. The Glade, Walsall ~d ·agent, Burnham house, Watling st Stockley Joseph, hair dresser White Frank Charles, The Holhes, Noon Silvanus, grocer Sylvester Samuel, grocer, Ogley Hay Walsall road Norris George, butcher Taylor George, grocer, Wilkin road COMMERCIAl.. Ogley Hay & Brownhills Gas Co. Ltd. Taylor Joseph, fishmonger, High st Beetlestone Mrs. Mary, farmer, (Henry Shepherd, manager & sec) Taylor William, shopkeeper, High st Brockhurst farm Page Samuel, beer retlr. Watling St Thacker Samuel, farmer, Highfield Blower Jn. Wm. beer retlr. Springhill Palmer Kitty (Miss), draper, High st Tideswell Joseph, Rising Sun P.B. Boneham Arth. farmer, Springhill fin Poole William, grocer & baker Watling Street Goodman Charles Ed. farmer &; Port'h Thomas, Lamb P.H Tisdale David, fruiterer, High street assistant overseer for Ogley Hay Poxon Alfred, chemist, High street Trawford Geo. grocer, Watling Street Bural District, Walsall road Poxon Arthur, butcher Twist Henry & Son, builders Hearn Jn. Bt. Boat inn, Summerbill Poxon Hyla, saddler & assistant oversr Vaughan Thomas, pawnbroker & clthr Smith William, metal worker, The Precey William, manager of the Walker Benjamin, Muckley Corner Poplars, Springhill Metropolitan Bank (of England & hotel, Muckley Corner, nr. Lichfield Stackhouse John, farmer, Ivy House Wales) Limited & treasurer to the Walsall & District Co-operative So· farm, Springhill Urban District Council ciety, High street ]Williams Thos. farmer, Summerhill. OKEOVER is a small parish, on the weat bank of th~t to be paid annually to the organist and £2 to each of river Dove and on the borders of Derbyshire, 2! miles the choristers for clothes, the remainder to be employed north-west from Ashbourne station on the N()rth Stafford in apprenticing the choristers at the age of twelve or .shire railrway and 13 east-south-east from Leek, in the thirteen ; the choristers have never been appointed, Leek division of the county, North Totmonslow hundred, but twelve boys and girls are clothed and apprenticed Uttoxeter petty sessional division, Ashbourne union and from the charity, viz. three from Okeover, three from .county court district. The church of All Saints, situated Swinscoe, three from Mapleton and three from Attlow. near the Hall, is a building of stone in the G-othic style, The same benefactor endowed an hospital at Okeover consisting of chancel, nave, north porch and au embattled for two clergymen's widows, who now receive £35 each western tower with four crocketed pinnacles, containing a yearly. A new scheme for the future administration clock and one bell : all the windows are memorials to of the Okeover charitr haa been allowed and approved by members of the Okeover family, some of the glasa being the Charity Commissioners, by which £15 is to be paid ancient, and there is a very fine marble monument, repre yearly to the organist of Okeover parish church, £a4 senting the figure of a female leaning over sn urn and yearly for providing suitable articlea of clothing for chil bearing a wreath in the right hand, to E. W. Okeover esq. dren of either sex who shall officiate as choristers in Oke dated 1793 : the church also retains a palimpsest brass over church, subject to the direction of the minister, the
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