DIRECTORY.] '\YORCESTERSHIRE. KIDDrRMI:N;,TER. 149 The Mayor of Kiddermimter and the Chairman of the TERRITORllL FORCE_ Rural District Council, for the time (The Queen's t>wn Worcestershire being, are ex-officio magistrates Hussars) Yeomanry (A Squadron); head quarters, Clerk to the Magistrates, Frederick Edward Burcher, Briercliffe house, Castle road, Major E. A. Knight Bank buildings M.P. commanding; Capt. H. Tomkinson, second in Petty sessions are held at the Town hall, every alternate command; Squadron-Sergt.-Major Ernest S. Austen, thursday at n a.m drill instructor ThQ places in the division are : Kidderminster Foreign, 2nd Worcestershire Battery, 2nd South Midland Brigade , , , Stone, Upper Royal Field Artillery (Left Section), 47 George street, .A.rley, , Dowles & Wribbenhall Major & Hon. !Lieut.-Col. E. C. Bullock T.D. com­ manding the battery; Sergt.-Major Samuel Oswin KIDDERMINSTER RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL. Parkes, drill instructor The Parishes in the District are the same as in the 7th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment, Drill hall, Union, with the exception of Kidderminster Borough, Shrubbery, Birmingham road. Commanding, Lieut.­ Lower Mitton & . The area is 32,935 acres; Col. J. W. Garratt V.D.; Majors, C. W. Thomas & the population in 1911 was 10,495 F. E. Burcher; Instructor of Musketry, Capt. W. Council meets at Workhouse every fourth tuesday, at .!.dam; Adjutant, Capt. C. Richardson; Quarter­ master, Hon. Lieut. R. W. Nield; Medical Officers, 2.I5 p.m. Surg.-Major J. Robinson & Sur~.-Capt. B. .Adden­ Chairman, Michael Tomkinson D.L., J.P. Franche hall, brooke M.D.; Chaplain, Rev. P. C. Thomas B . ..!.. Kidderminster (T.F.). Kidderminster Companies: ..!., Capt. R. P. Clerk, Frederick Edward Burcher, solicitor, Bank build­ Homfray & half of B, Capt. W. Adam; Sergt.-Major ings, Kidderminster J. Batchelor, drill instructor Treasurer, Edward C. Newmarch, Metropolitan Bank (of & Wales) Limited, Kidderminster KlllDERMINSTER UNION. Medical Officer of Health, Edward Homfray Addenbrooke M.R.C.S.Eng. The Platts, Kidderminster The Union comprises the following parishes: .A.rll·~· Surveyor, Geo.J. Shepherd, ss Chester rd.Kidderminster (Upper), Bewdley, Broom, Chaddesley Corbett. Sanitary Inspector, Daniel Llewellyn, Pembroke Yilla, Churchill, Dowles, Kidderminster Borough, Kidder­ Hurcott road, Kidderminster minster Foreign, Lower Mitton with Stourport, RibbP!I­ ford, Rushock, Stone, Wolverley & Wribbenhall. The area is 37,231 acres; rateable value, Lady Day, Ign, PUBLIC ESTABJJSHMENTS. . £1SS,7I6; the population in 19II was 40,s76 Borough Infectious Hospital, Stourport rd. David Corbet Chairman of the Board of Guardians, M. Tomkinson M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officer; Miss L. A. Upton, D.L., J.P. Franche hall, Kidderminster matron Borough Police Station, Town hall, Vicar street, Edwin Board day, every other tues. at the Workhouse, at Il a.m Bennett, chief constable ; the force consists of I inspec­ Clerk to the Guardians & Assessment Committee, Fredk. tor, 5 sergeants, I detective-sergeant & 24 constables Edward Burcher, Bank buildings, Kidderminster Cattle 'Market, New rd. Geo. Wareham Holloway, supt Treasurer, Edward Compson Newmarch, Metropolitan Cemetery, Park lane, Thomas Frederick Ivens, clerk to Bank (of England & Wales) Ltd. Kidderminster the burial joint committee ; Charles Wakeman, supt Collector to the Guardians, Thomas Davis, I Sutton rd Chamber of Commerce, A. S. Thursfield, sec. Oxford st Relieving & Vaccination Officers No. x District, George Oorn Exchange, Town Hall buildings, E. H. Dredge, Frederick Tranter, 14 Birmingham road, Kidder­ caretaker minster ; No. 2 District, Harry Ernest Bennett, Corporation Baths, Mill street, Herbert Tommis, supt :z Imperial avenue, Kidderminster County Court, His Ho nor Robert Wood Ingham, judge ; Medical Officers, Bewdley district, Usher William New­ William Henry Talbot, registrar & high bailiff. Days ton Miles M.R.C.S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. 42 High st. of meeting, monthly, at the Town hall. Registrar's Bewdley; Chaddesley Corbett district, Charles Dennis office, Church street, open from 10 to 4 l saturdays, Io Fitch M.R.C.S.Eng. Chaddesley Corbett; Kidder­ to I. The district comprises the following places:­ minster No. I district, William Hodgson Moore The borough & foreign of Kidderminster, Arley, Arley M.R.C.S.Eng. IS Church street, Kidderminster; Kings, Astley, Bewdley, Broom, Chaddesley Corbett, Kidderminster No. 2 district, Oliver Conrad Penrhys Churchill, Hartlebury, Lower Mitton, , Evans M.D., B.S.Durh. 22 Church street, Kidder­ Rushock, Stone, Stourport & Wolverley minster; Lower Mitton district~ Harold Ettric Moore This Court has also Bankruptcy jurisdiction extending M.B., 'Bac.Surg-. Lower Mitton; Wolverley district, over the Cleobury & Tenbury county court districts; Edward Homfray Addenbrooke M.R.C.S.Eng. The .!.ndrew Martin Fairburn, I Priory street, Dudley, Platts, Kidderminster official receiver Public Vaccinators, Bewdley, Chaddesley Corbett, Lower Certified Bailiffs appointed under the "Law of Distress Mitton & W olverley districts, same as Medical Officers ; Amendment Act," John Nicholls, Commercial build­ Kidderminster district, Oliver Conrad Penrhys Evans ings; Albert Cooper, Oxford street; F. R. Webster, M.D., B.S.Durh. 22 Church street, Kidderminster 16 Lea 8treet ; E. A. C. 1Phipps, Bank buildings ; The Workhouse, Sutton road, is a structure of red brick, Harry Walford, Ss Lea street & Charles Onslow, II arrangetd to hold 49I inmates; in rSS4 extensive Fair street alterations & additions were made under the super­ County Police Station, FranC"he, Inspector Richard intendence of Mr. W. Watkin, of Lincoln, architect, Lysons, in charge, & S constables at a ccst of £IS,ooo, consisting of two new hospitals, Customs & Excise & Old Age Pension Offices, 24 Vicar one for men, with 66 beds, the other for women, street, John Kay, supervisor; John W. C. Randall, with so ; schools for I2o children, baking, brewing & Henry W. Cornish & Albert G. Davis, officers boiler houses, laundry & carpenters' shops, the dining Free Library, Market st. Wm. F. Baillie, boro' librarian hall & kitchen bein~ also enlarged. Rev. Laurence Kidderminster Infirmary & Children's Hospital, Mil1 Banks Sladen M . .!.. chaplain; William Hodgson Moore street, Samuel Stretton M.R.C.S.Eng., Waiter Moore M.R.C.S.Eng. medical officer; George Charles Ling, M.R.C.S.Eng. & Edward Homfray Addenbrooke master; Mrs. H. E. Ling, matron M.R.C.S.Eng. hon. consulting surgeons; John Lionel Superintendent Registrar, Frederick Edward Burcher, Stretton L.R.C.P.Lond., M.R.C.S.Eng. Oliver Conrad Bank buildings, Kidderminster; deputy, Harry Hinton, Penrhys Evans M.D., B.S.Durh., M.R.C.S.Eng., W. Bank buildings, Kidderminster Hodgson Moore M.R.C S.Eng., L.R.C.P.Lond. & Bertram Addenbrooke 'M.D., B.S. & B.Hy.Durh., Registrars of Births & Deaths, Bewdley sub-district, Thos. M.R.C.S.Eng. surgeons; Arthur L. Bostock L.D.S. Pennington M.R.C.S. Wribbenhall, Bewdley; deputy, R.C.S.Eng. hon. dental surgeon; Albert Dovey Cham­ Ernest P. Shepherd, Bewdley; Chaddesley Corbett bers, sec. & collector ; Miss .Anne McFarlane, matron sub-district, Charles Dennis Fitch, Chaddesley Corbett ; Kingsley Hall, 24 Vicar st. Charles Munn, caretaker deputy, Edwin A. Millward, Chaddesley Corbett; Kid­ Labour Exchange (Board of Trade), 114 Mill street derminster sub-district, Miss Persis Friend, 20 Mill Municipal Buildings, Vicar street, 1Mrs. J. Stainer, street, Kidderminster ; deputy, Arthur H. Peniily, 21 caretaker Imperial avenue, Kidderminster ; Lower Mitton sub­ New Opera House Co. Limited, Comberton hill, James district, William Smith Gregory, Stourport; deputy, P. Moore, managing director George Jackson, Stourport; Wolverley sub-district, Surveyor of Taxes Offices, 24 Vicar street, Duncan Harry Ernest Bennett, Imperial aven. Kidderminster; Matheson, surveyor deputy, George Frederick Tranter, Birmingham road, Town Hall, Vicar street Kidderminster Workmen's Club & Institute, Church street, Alfred Registrar of Marriages, Kidderminster district, William Brimfield, steward Smith Gregory, Bewd!ey road, St"rport • ss