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DIREUfORY.] WORCESTERSHIRE. BROMSGROVE. 41 Clerk to the Commissioners of Land &; Income Taxes, Owen M.A., R. G. Routh ~r.J... A.lexander John Sains 'Walter H. Scott, St. John street bur~r ~I.A., Rev. A. D. Perrott ~LA.. W. L. Bunting Collector of Market Tolls, Richard H. Xowell, Strand RA., & Rev. J. L. YIl!f.ord ~I.A. & lvor Sant RA. as Inspector of Weights & Measures,Wm.JetIrey,Police statn sistant masters Town Crier, Henry Albutt, St. John street Bromsgrove College, Sew road, established in 1857, is a first-class modern school, with a classical department: PLACES OF WORSHIP, with times of services. has exhibitions tenable for three vears:• the situation is St. John's Church, Rev. Edward Yine Hall M.A. (sur healthy & picturesque. the grounds very extensive: rogate), vicar; Rev. 1Valter G. 1Yhinfield ~Ius.Bac. &; Samuel Saywell M.A.., F.L.S. head master; Richard Rev. Chas. Tansley Lth. curates; Frank Docksey James Udall :M.A. Alfred Deg~netais &; Walter Saywell, F.R.C.O. organist; Joseph lV. R{)se, sexton; 8 & II assistant masters a.m. 3.30 &; 6.30 p.m.; daily, 10.30 a.m.; wed. 7.30p.m School of Art (in connection with the Government Science All Saints' Church, Rev. Francis Lea Milward M.A. & Art Department); there are classes for practical in vicar; Rev. Frank Tibbits M.A. curate; 1Yalter Say struction in ornamental ironwork, carpentry, joinery & well RA. organist; II a.m. & 6,30 p.m.; daily, 6.30 wood carving; Lord 1Vindsor, president; T. Raper, p.m.; wed. &, fri. 12 noon; wed. 7.30 p.m hon. sec. & hon. treasurer; "-alter Gilbert, master St. Peter's Catholic, Worcester road, Very Rev. Canon A School Board of 7 members was formed February 24, "~m. Greaney (rural dean), priest; mass 10.30 a.m. &; 1875; Benjamin Hadler Sanders, St. John street, el-ening service & benediction 6.30 p.m.; daily mass, clerk; Christopher J. Milton, Dog & Pheasant inn, 8 a.m. summer & 8.30 a.m. winter; holidays of obli Worcester street. attendance officer; the board meets gation, mass 8.30 a.m at the 'fown hall the second monday in each month, Baptist, Worcester street; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; wed. at 4.30 p.m 7.30 p.m Board, Stourbridge road (mixed & infants), built in 1880, Baptist, New road, Rev. James Ford; 10.40 a.m. &; 6.30 for 200 boys, 200 girls & 150 infants; average at p.m.; wed. 7.30.p.m tendance, 190 boys, 190 girls & 150 infants; Charles Congregational, Chapel street, Rev. Arthur C. Parkes; Fletcher, master; Miss Elizabeth Gwinnett, mistress; 10.45 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Miss Ellen Shelswell, infants' mistress Primitive Methodist, BIrmingham road, Rev. John Board, Sidemoor, built in 1884, for ISO infants; average Humphries; 10.45 a.m. &; 6 p.m.; thurs. 7.30 p.m attendance, 124; ~Iiss C. Fourt, mistress Primitive Methodist, Sidemoor; 10.30 a.m. &; 6 p.m.; Board, Dodford (mixed). built, with teacher's residence, mono &; wed. 8 p.m in 1877, at a cost of £1,7°0, for 100 children; average 1Yesleyan, J'\ew road, Rev. Tom H. Ingram; 1O.-l5 a.lp. & attendance, 91; Charles Joseph Jelfs, master 6.30 p.m.; mono 8 p.m.; wed. 7.30 p.m Kational (mixed & infants), built in 1837, for 400 boys, 200 girls & 200 infants; average attendance, 246 boys, Schools. 197 girls & 224 infants; 1Yilliam Dodd, master; Miss Bromsgrove school, Worcester street, originally founded Williams. mistress; Miss Louisa Kitts, infants' mist in 1553 by King Edward VI. & endowed with £7 Catholic, Worcester road (mixed). for 120 children; aver yearly; Sir Thomas Cookes bart. of Bentley Paunce age attendance, IIS; )Iiss Parkinson, mistress foot, in 1693, added a rent-charge of .£50 a year, which has been sold by the trustees in order to pur Newspaper. chase increased playground accommodation: the school Bromsgrove, Droitwich & Redditch 'Weekly Messenger was reorganized by the Charity Commissioners in (neutral); office, High street; The Bromsgrove Mes 1868: in 1828 Mrs. Catherine lVattell left '£200 for two annual prizes: the school foundation has been re senger Newspaper & General Printing, Publishing, Bookselling & Stationery Co. Limited, printers & pro modelled under the sanction of the Charity Com prietors; published fridays missioners, &, there are now 12 foundation day scholars, eleded hy examinati{)n &; entitled, on Conveyance. payment of £1 Ss. a quarter, to receive instruction in all subjects taught in the school; there is also an Birmingham & Bristol (Midland) Railway, William '\Vat annual election to a scholarship of the value of £80 a kins, station master & goods agent: receiving house for year, tenable for four years, on the foundation of Sir goods & parcels, 'Golden Cross,' High street Thomas Cookes, whose trustees in 1714 founded Wor Omnibus from 'Golden Cross,' High st. meets all trains cester College, Oxford: the school chapel, erected by Carriers. subscription in 1850 & enlarged in 1867 by the addition With inns they go from &; dap of departure. of a chancel &; sanctuary, from the designs of Mr. W. J. Hopkins, architect, of Worcester, as a testimonial Alvechurch-Mrs. Smith, 'Roebuck,' sat of respect to Dr. Collis, the late head master, is a Bentley John Hughes, 'Dog & Pheasant,' Worcester simple structure in the Early English style, consisting street, tues of chancel & nave only; the reredos was presented by Bentley Lower-A. Price, 'Golden Lion,' tues the townsfolk in remembrance of Dr. Collis; the Berrow Hin Alfred Price, from 'Golden Lion,' tues chancel has sedilia & a piscina & all the windows are Birmingham Walter PeUord, from 'Golden Lion,' High stained; in 1889 the interior of the chapel was re street, mono thurs. & sat. at 8 a.m. returning same stored & redecorated & an organ chamber added, at a days from 'Black Swan,' Bromsgrove street, Birming· cost of £600, from plans by Mr. Wyndham H. Hughes, ham; William Kendall, Orchard farm, Sidemoor, fri. of Birmingham, who also designed &; executed all the 8 a.m. returning same day from 'New inn,' Broms stained glass: in 1883 a large block of new buildings grove street, Birmingham; Jones & Bratt, from 14 was opened, consisting of large schoolroom, laboratory, 'Worcester street, mono wed. &; fri., returning same day library & two class rooms, the cost of which was de from' Kew inn,' Bromsgro,-e street, Birmingham frayed by subscriptions from the masters & friends of Bradley Green Hug-hI'S, 'Dog & Pheasant,' tues the school; a new laboratory, named after the present Droitwieh-Pritchard. 'Golden Lion,' Worcester st. tues. head master, was completed, in 1898, at a cost of Feckenham Alfred Price, 'Golden Lion,' High st. tues £1,200; in 1885 Lyttelton house was opened for Hanbury-:Mrs. Osborne, 'Golden Lion,' 1Yorcester street, boarders, &; Gordon house was completed, in 1899, at a tues cost of £6,000; Herbert Millington M.A. Clare College, Inkberrow J. Clarke, 'George: High street, tues Cambridge, head master; C. D. Chambers, E. CunlitIe Redditch-Court, 'George; tues BROMSGROVE. PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bunting W. L. (assistant. master, Court .Tames, Stoney hill Ball Herbert, College road Bromsgrove school), The Steps Crane .Archibald Jas. All Saints' road Ball John Augustus, 13 High street Burford John Valentine, College road Creswell Joseph Nash, Ednall house Barham FrankF.The Mount,Chapel st Burt William, Victoria road Creswell Mrs. Birmingham road Barrett Hy. The Lilies, Stourbridge rd Carey Charles, Woodbury, New road Davenport Charles Edgell, The Bank, Bate In. Park view, Stourbridge I'd Carrington George, Stourbridge road High street. Bennett Alfred, Crescent Chappell Arthur Edward, Cedar t~r Davis Mrs. St. John's ho. St. John st Birbeck Mrs. 131 High street Chinn Miss,Blackmore vl.B'ham road Day The Misses, 10 Strand Bolding Mrs. 114 Worcester street Chopping Waiter Clive, Victoria road Degeneta.i8 Alfred (assistant ma&ter), Brazier Albert, II7 Worcester street Coaker Francis Wm. In. 22 High st CDllege school Brazier John, Orchard ho.Worcester st Corbett William, The Cottage, Kidder- Dunn Miss, Rose lawn, Birmingham rd Rrooke Frederick Stewart, Raglan minster road Dunn Mrs. Oaklev.• New road house, High street Cotton Ernest Brewster, Sunnymead, Dutton Mrs. Old Station road Brooke Mrs. W. Crescent Xew road Field Chas. The Landscape, Stoney hll.