The Primitive Methodist Olwpel Is Also in Guild Pits. Besides the &Ee
B.ARLICHW.A.Y HUNDRED. STR.A.TFORD DIVISION. '197 The Primitive Methodist Olwpel is also in Guild pits. Besides the &ee grammar school, for which see Charities, two handsome National &hools, with houses for the master and mistress, were E'rf:'cted in 1846, of brick, with stone facings, on the Alcester road; each school will accommodate 180, average 80 boys and 105 girls; John Guppy, master i and Jnliet Woodward, mistress; connected with these schools, is a public library. The British Schools, Rother street, are connected with the Independent chapel, estab· lished 1824; consists of three rooms, for boyR, girls, and infants; Wm. Pardoe, master; Ann Eliz. Steed, mistress; and Esther Smith, infant mistress. Infant School, College street, founded by Miss Mason, .is a convenient room, will accommodate 200, average 100; Mary Jordan, mistress. The Savings' Bank, established September, 1834; Wm. Chattaway, Esq., treasurer, and Mr. J. S. Leaver, actuary. Public Infirmary, Chapel lane, is a neat building, erected in 1840, at a cost of £1,200. defrayed by subscription; president, Sir Gray Skipwith, Bart.; bon. secretary, Rev. T. R. Medwin; assistant-secretary, Mr. F. Ward; physician, Thomas Thomson, M.D.; surgeons, David Wright, and dispenser, and T. S. Burman; matron, Mrs. Margaret Edkins. Gas Worl1s, Birmingham road, were removed from Chapel lane, in 1838, where they were first established, in 1834, at a cost of £3,000., raised by a number of shareholders ; Mr. Thomas Deacle Gill, superintendent and secretary. County Court, at the Sbakspeare rooms, Warwick road, comprises the following places, viz.: Alveston, Alderminster, Atberstone-on-Stour, Billesley, Binton, Charle cote, Clifford Chambers, Combrook, Compton V erney, Dorsington, Eatington, Fulbrook, Grafton, Hampton Lucy, Kineton, Loxley, Luddington, Moreton Morrell, Marston Sicca, N ewbold Pacey, Old Stratford, Preston-on-Stour, Snitterfield, Stratford-on-Avon, W el1esbourne Hastings, W ellesbourne Mountford, Whitchurch, W elford, and W eston on-Avon; F.
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