320 R(GELEY. . (KELLY'~ sary, situated about half a mile from the centre of the or building another in the parish of ; and this town, on the Brereton road, and opened Io .Aug. I871, is amount is still accumulating in the hands of trustees; an edifice in the Domestic Gothic style, erected by sub­ there is also an endowment, yielding £23 Ics. yearly, fo1 scription, after the designs of Mr. W . .A. Bonney C.E.; the support of the school at St{mehouse. it is caloulated to hold I8 beds: in I88z Louis Samson Here are Almshouses, built in I836 by Mrs. Sarab esq. and the Rev. Edward Samson M . .A.. of .A.rmitage Hopkins, for four poor widows, who receive ss. each Lodge, .A.rmitage, endowed the hospital with a sum of weekly. '!'here are also six cottages, in Church street .. £I,6oo, for the purpose of providing three free beds there­ erected by the Misses Sneyd, for ladies in reduced cir­ in, as a. memorial to their mother, the late Mrs . .A.nne cumstances, and adjacent to these are others, built in. Samson, and there are other benefactions, which bring I87o, at the expense of the late H. R. Sneyd esq. fo11 the endowment fund Up to a total of [3,48I 4s. 5d.; SUr· poor old women, and now maintained at the expense ol veyor, Mr. W. E. Rogers. the Misses Sneyd. In I894 Miss Sneyd erected 6 addi­ The Levett Convalescent Home, Church street, founded tional houses for old couples,· who are appointed by her. mApril, I 862, was partly endowed by Miss Levett, and Waiters' Almshouses, erected in I8go by the late Rev. is otherwise supported by voluntary subscriptions and J. T. Waiters, in memory of his mother and wife, are fo» small payments from inmates: this establishment re­ four aged women. ceives women and children needing rest, nursing and Hagley Hall, the property of the Marquess of Anglesey,. medical treatment : the house contains eight beds, and is and the residence of John Pritt Gardner esq. is a man­ managed by a committee, which meets monthly. sion of some antiquity, standing in an exceedingly pic­ The charities, amounting to over [I,o9o yearly, are as turesque park, with extensive gardens and pleasurG follows :-Bamford's charity, producing an annual income grounds, beautifully laid out, and enclosed by a park wan of [37 ws. from real estate, and £I27 in Consols, for the and paling. Stone House is the seat of James William support of the Rugeley and Brereton National School, Gardner esq. and Chaseley House, of Viscountess Corn· trustees, the vicar and churchwardens; Miss Simpson's, bermere. The Marquess of Anglesey, who is lord of the­ of £160; Landor's, of :f12o I3S. 4d. for the poor; Chet­ manor, the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot and the Earl wynd's, of £350; Sneyd's and Moor's, of £9 I3S.; de· of are the principal landowners. rived from various sources for the Rugeley and Brereton The area of the newly constituted anll poor, [242 Ios. ; Catherine Barber's, of £n 7s. 4d. given Urban District is 65 8 acres; rateable value, £13,654; the­ in coals to the poor of Rugeley and Brereton ; Godwin's, population of the civil .parish and of the Urban District of £3 ISS· sd. divided between five poor widows of the in Igoi was 4•447• and of the ecclesiastical parish, Stl. parish, Brereton having one-third; and Curzon's, of Augustine, 4,046. £28 ISS· The Organist's houses produce a rental of Slitting Mill is a hamlet about 1! miles west-south­ £I9 Ss. 4d. which is paid to the organist of the parish west from Rugeley; Etching Hill is about the same dis­ church. Miss Hopkins, by her will, dated 1st March, tance west-north-west. :r84:r, left £I,ooo to be expended in enlarging the church, Parish Clerk, William Frith.

OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, LOO.AL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & A., OOUNTY MAGISTRA'DES FOR RUGELEY PETTY I. & Stamp Office.-Edward Henry Earl, postmaster SESSIONAL DWISION. Letters arrive from London &i all parts on week days, at Forster Sir Charles hart. Lysways hall, Longdon, Ruge• 4·45 a.m. ; London & South at 10.40 a.m. & ley, chairman & all part.s at 2.50 & 6.45 p.m. ; ..sundays, 4·45 a.m. Bagot Lord D.L. Blithfield hall, Blithfield, Rugeley Letters delivered at 7 & II a.m. & 3.10 p.m. (also 7·5 Wolseley Sir Ohas. Michael hart. D.L. Wolseley half,. p.m. wednesdays excepted) & sundays 7 a.m. Dis­ Stafford patched to Stafford & all parts, 9.15 & II a.m. & 8.10 Bonney Frederic esq. F.R.G.S. The Hollies, Rugeley & 8.45 p.m. week days; sundays, 8.45 p.m. ; London Darling John esq. Longdon ball, Rugeley & South of generally, 1 p.m. week days & Staf­ Forster John Henry esq. M.A. Lysways hall, Longdon,. ford & the North, 1.30 p.m. week days Rugeley Parcel Post. Parcels arrive at 4·45 a.m. & 2.50 & 6.45 Lane John Henry Hervey Vincent esq. D.L. The Manor,. p.m.; dispatched at I.3o, 8.10 & 8.45 p.m. week days King's Bromley, Lichfield only Prinsep Thomas Levett esq. Colton house, Oolton, Rugeley Town Sub-Post & M. 0. 0., S. B. & .A. & I. 0. Horse Fair. Smith Thomas Carrington esq. Admaston, Rugeley -William A. Frith, sub-postmaster. Collections, 7-':JO Stokes Stephen esq. Hanch hall, Longdon, Lichfield & 10.30 a.m. & 12.30, 2.30, 6.20 & 8.10 p.m.; sunday, Wetherall Col. William Alexander, Rugeley I2.5 p.m The chairman, for the time being, of the Rugeley Urba.DI Letter Boxes, Church Wall, T. V. Station & Lion street District Council, is ex-officio magistrate. Post & Parcel Office, Slitting Mill.-John Stretton, sub­ Clerk to the Magistratlils, James Wlilliam Gardner,. postmaster. Letters through Rugeley arrive at 8.20 Crossley Stone, Rugeley. a.m. & 6.I5 p.m.; dispatched at 8.25 a.m. & 6.20 p.m. Petty Sessions are held at the Public buildings every alter­ Rugeley, 2 miles distant, is the nearest money order nate monday at II a.m. The following places are in­ & telegraph oftice cluded in the division : with ,. URBAN DLSTRIOI' COUNCIL. Brereton, Colton, (.lurborough & £lmhurst, Bromley­ • Hayes, , King's Bromley, Longdon,. Offices, Town hall. , Pipe Ridware & Rugeley Meeting day, rst Wednesday in each month at 9.30 a.m. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS. Members. Assembly Rooms, Public buildings, William Gilbert,caretkr. Chairman, James Tompson. Joint Burials Committee of the Urban District Council. Vice-Chairman, William Armishaw. of Rugeler & the Parish Council of Brereton; office,. Retire April 1904. Crossley Stone ; Alfred Bradford, clerk James Buckley / Waiter Noble Landor Cemetery, Wolseley road, Sampson 'Phillips, caretaker William N evill Cheatle William Toy County Court, held at the Public buildings about every: two months; His Honor Wm. Mulholland K.C. judge~ Retire .April I905. James William Gardner B.A. registrar & high bailiff;: Harry Broughall . Samuel Machin office, Crossley Stone. The County Court district m­ Benjamin Hughes I Clark Salmon eludes the following places: Armitage,,Brere­ John J ohnson I Algernon R. Tunnicliffe ton, Colton, Fair Oak, Gentleshaw, Hamstall Ridware,. Retire April rgo6. Handsacre, Hazel !Slade, , Longdon,Mavesyn William Armishaw James Tompson Ridware, Nethertown, Pipe Ridware & Rugeley George A veril Alfred Williams For Bankruptcy purposes this Court is included in that of Charles Lees I Stafford, Thomas Bullo~k, King street, Newcastle, of•. ficial receiver; Frank Uariss, St. John's chambers, 811. Officers. John's hill, Shrewsbury, assistant official receiver Clerk, Robert Landor, 24 Horse fair Certified Bailiffs, appointed under the "Law of Distress Treasurer, Alexander B. Holland,National Provincial Bank Amendment Act, I888," John Upton, Colton; Georg~t Medical Officer of Health, John Henry Freer L.R.C.P. Brown, IS Bow street,Rugeley & William Nevill Cheatle; Lond. Glan Camlas The Red house, Rugeley Surveyor, Inspector of Water Supply, Inspector of Trent County Police Station, Waiter Whitehurst, inspector, & g;: & Mersey Canal Boats, Sanitary Inspector & Inspector constables of Lodging House, William E. Rogers, Anson street Levett Convalescent Home, Ohurch street, Col. W. A. .Collector,. John Wallbank, Lichfield street Wetherall, bon. sec.; Mrs. McGill, lady superintendent