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et ERDINGTON is an ancient hamlet, on the high road magistrates' meeting I~ held here every alternate WMnf.>8­ from Birmingham to Sutton Coltlfield, in parish and day. - Bracebridge, Esq., is lord of the manor. The union, Hemling-ford hundred, Birmingham county court principal landowners are - Bracebridge, Esq., and Jo,!\iah district and division, county of Warwick. The church of Mason, Esq. The soil is a light loam; subsoil, gravel. The St. Barnaba! was erected in 1819-20 by the Commissioners chief crops are turnip~ and wheat. The population in ]861 appointed for building churches, at a cost of £6,000, £1,000 was 3,906. of which was raised by subscriptions of the inhabitants. .Pari.qh Clerk, Henry JeWs. The register dates from the year 1820. The living is a perpetual curacy, endowed with £80 per annum out of the tithes of the hamlet, with residence, in the gift of the vicar POST & MONEY ORDER OFFICE &; Post Office Savings of Aston, and held by the Rev. Hyla Holden Rose, M.A., of Bank & Government Annuity &; Insurance Office.­ Clare Colle~e, Cambridge. The school-rooms were built in Joseph Holyoak, sub-postmaster. Letters (t.:iti Birming­ 1822: the land, including the churchyard, the site ofschools, ham) are delivered at 7 a.m. &; 3 p.m.; dispatched at and parsonage-house, was the gift of Earl Howe, the Rev. 10.45 a.m. & 7.53 p.m G. Peake, and the Rev. J. Ho' Harrison. In 1850 a Roman Catholic chapel was erected here, at a cost exceeding Workhouse, Rev••G. W. Robinson, chaplain; Enoch £10,000. The Roman Catholic College, dedicated to St. Pearson, clerk to g'uardians; Edward Spooner Machin, Mary, is a spacious building, erected in 1837-8, and affords medical officer; William Moon Nuth, master; Mrs. accommodation for 200 students: there is also a suite of Harriett Nuth, matron; Miss Caroline Lawes, school­ apartments for the bishop, a handsome chapel, and a mu­ mistress; John Lumby, relieving officer seum containing some ancient and curious relics. The Railway Stations.-Erdington, Thom!)!! Baldry, station Independent meeting-house is a neat building, with com­ master; Gravelly Hill, James Bradford, station master modious school-rooms attached. The Orphan Asylum was PU:BLJC OFFICERS:- erected by Josiah Mason, Esq. (by whom it is supported), Registrar ofBirths ~ Deaths, Geo~e Hill for 50 g-irls, who are clothed and educated for domestic Assessors of Taxes, haac Smith &; William Bach servants: adjoining the asylum are almshouses for 20 women, furnished with firing and lighting, at the sole ex­ SCHOOLS :- pense of J. Mason, Esq.: they were built in 1850: a new British (boys & girls), Miss Mary Ann Bullock, mistress asylum is being built by the same gentleman to accommo­ National, Robert Milnes, master; Mrs. Milneq, mistress; date 250 bo)'s and girls, who are to be selected irrespective Miss Mary Ann Twist, infants' mistress of country or creed. Here is the Aston Union Workhouse. Oscott College (Roman Catholic), Very Rev. J. Spencer Erdington Hall was a mansion of very early date: some Northcote, D.D. president; Mr. Charles Knight, vicf'­ remains may still be traced near the present edifice. A president

PltIVATE RESIDENTS. Davenport Mr. Robert, Oaklands, Jevons Mr. Samuel, Rock villa AnseU Mr. Charles, Ashby villa, Gra- Gravelly hill Johnson Edward, esq. The Laurels, velly hill Davis Mrs. Western villas, Gravelly hill Gravelly hill Apted Mr. George Day Mr. Edwin, 4 Wellington terrace, Johnson Mr. Thomas, Shortlleath road Bach Mr. William Gravelly hill Jones Mr. David, Western villas, Gra- Bagot Mr. WaIter William, Pipe hayes Dixon Abraham, esq. J .P. Birchesgreen velly hill Bakewell Mr. Thomas. Shortheath road Edkins 1\[rs. 1 Wellington terrace, Jones Edward, esq. Berwood villa Bartlett Mr. Jesse, Grove villa, Gra- Gravelly hill Kemble Mr. Robert velly hill Elkington John, esq. Mount Pleasant Knight Mr. Charles, Oscott college Beale Mr. William Frank, Canterbury Ellis Mr. Henry Richard, Prospect cot I Knight Mrs. Lydia, Portland cottal{e, place, Chester road Felton Mr. Charles, Gravelly hill Gravelly hill Beesley Mr. David, Park villa Fielding Mr. Henry, Hollows Knight Mr. Thomas, Shortheatb road Bembridge Mr. Joseph, Gravelly hill Fowler Richard, esq. Gravelly Hill Loveridge Mr. William, Erdingtoa hall Billing Mr. Martin house, Gravelly hill Ludlow Mr. Alfred, Rose villa Blews William Henry Maxwell, esq. Fowler Mr. Richard, jun. Wood end Lunt Mr. Richard) Salford house) Gravelly hill Fowler Mr. Willia~, Berwood common Slade lane Blunt Mr. John PolIarlf, Gravelly hill Fowler Wmiam, esq. Birches g-reen Machin Charles, esq Boddington Mr. Nathan, Salford Bridge Fowler Mr. William, jun. Wood End Machin Edmund Spooner, esq house, Gravelly hill cottage Mackey Edward Waiter, esq. Spring Bodley Rev. William, Oscott college Gilbert Mrs. Harriett, Short heath I cottage Bond James Halstead, esq. Western Goffe Mr. Samuel John, Masefield Macpherson Mr. Jas. Albert, White ho villa, Gravelly hill house, Gravelly hill Madely Richard, esq. Berwood house Botham John R. esq Green Rev. John Fowler, M.A. Gra- Mander Mr. Georg-e, Salford terrace, Bradbury Mr. Francis, Gravelly hill velly hill Gravelly hill BradburyMr.Frederick,Parkfield house Grundy James, esq Marskitt Mr. James, The Hawthorns. Bradhury John Gilbert, esq Haigh Rev. Daniel rRoman Catholic] Gravelly hill Brettle Mr. Samuel, Gravelly hill H aig-h George, esq. Lichfield road Martin Mr.William Russell, Cambridg Brettle Mr. Thomas, Copely cottage, Hall 1\11'. Samuel, Richmond villa, house, Gravelly hill Gravelly hill Gravelly hill Mason Josiah, esq. Norwood house Burns Mr. Thomas Harding William, esq. Copely house, Matchett Mrs. Susan, 2 Clarence place, Gravell.,· hill Gravellv hill Burt Mr. Arthur, 1 Oak place, Gra­ • • velly hill Hately Mr. Jas. York tel'. Gravelly hill Meeson Mr. Charles, Coton cottages Cardall Mr. Samson, Wood end, Gra- Hawkes Mr. Horatio Francis, Short- l\'IeyneIl Rev. Dr. Chas. Oscott college velly hill heath road Mellor Mr. John, Slade lane, Gravelly CardallMr.Thos.Wood end,Gravelly hill Hawksford Rev. John, Oscott college hill Cattell Mr. Thomas Hayward Mr. William, The Elms, Millward Ezra, esq. Parkfield house, CauseI' Mr. Daniel, 2 Oscott villa Gravelly hill Gravelly hill Clarke Thomas, Bell cottag'e Heathcote Rev. Henry John (Indepen- MillwardEzraJames, esq.l{unton hill, Clive Miss Emma, Shortheath road dentJ, eotOD cottages Gravelly hill Clive Henry, esq. Highfield house, Gra- Hickman Mrs Mitchell Mr. Henry, Copely hill, Gra. velly hill Hill Mrs. Elizabeth, Hunton, Gravelly velly hill Cooper Mr. Chas. Sladela. Gravelly hill hill Moody Mr. Frederick B Cooper Mr. Charles, Portland villa, Hodgekison Mr. George Moody Mr. Robert Sadlier, Rose villa Gravelly hill Hodson Mrs. 1 Copely hill, Gravelly llill Morgan Mr. John Meadows, 5 Welling- Cooper Mr. Frederic Alfred Richard Holden .Mr. Arthur, Ash cottage, ton tel'l'8Ce, Gravelly hill Cooper Joseph Rock, esq. Berwood Gravelly hill Moxham Mr. Thomas, Gravelly hill Cooper Mrs. Phrehe, Oak place, Gra- Holden Mrs. Mary, Shortheath road Nock Mr. John velly hill Hopkins Mr. Jefii-ey Northcote Very Rev. J. Spencer, D.D. Cottrell William, esq. Broadfields Hopl