130 KNOWLE. . (KELLY's and an embattled western tower containing a clock and Sexton, Thomas Tracey. 3 bells: the interior was restored and re~ seated in r86o, Post, Money Order & Telegraph Office & Savings Bank. and a handsome east window inserted : a very fine carved -Mrs. Martha Elizabeth King, postmistress. Letters oak screen, supposed to dat-e from the -erection of the arrive from by mail cart at 5·25 a..m. &; church, divides the nave and chancel : there are 554 1.20 p.m. by train; dispatched at rz.rs & 7.48 p.m sittings, 186 being free. The register dates from the Post Office, Station road.-Miss Harriet Hall, sub-post­ year 1682. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value mistress. Letters arrive from Knowle post office at £ws, including 52 acres of glebe, with residence, in the 7 a.m. & from Birmingham r.25 p.m.; dispatched gift of George .A. Everitt esq. F.R.G.S. and held since 12.45 & 8.ro p.m :c8g2 by the Rev. James Wright Hatton M. .A. of Wadham Wall Letter Boxes.-Hernfield cleared at 8.30 a.m. & College, Oxford. There is a Congregational chapel, 6.rs p.m.; Station road at r2.3o & 7 p.m.; & Chessett erected in 1835. .A stock sale for cattle is held here on Wood 5.15 p.m. week days only the second and fomth Wednesday in each month. Public Establishments. Knowle Hall is the residence of George .Alien Everitt esq. J.P., F.R.G.S. Springfield Hall the seat of Henry Knowle Institute Townshend Boultbee esq. is in the occupation of Edward The Midland Counties' Idiot .Asylum, for the education & Edmondson esq. ; the Blyth brook flows through the training of idiots & imbeciles, about a mile south of the village. Lord Leigh, Lord Lieutenant, president ; grounds. Grimshaw Hall, the property of Joseph Gillott Bell Fletcher M. D. hon. visiting physician; Reginald esq. and now a farm house, is a small timber~framed Henry Foster, medical officer; Geo . .Alien Everitt esq. manor house of the middle of the qth century, and & Dr. Bell Fletcher, treasurers; W. G. Blatch, supt. affords a good and picturesque example of this style : & sec.; Miss Lukey, matron the house consists of a central portion, with gabled wings at each end, projecting both in front and at the Public Officers. back, and an advanced porch with overhanging upper .Assistant Overseer, John W akefielt1 storey, supported on bold corbels and displaying small Medica.! Officer & Public Vaccinator, Knowle District, oriels on each face ; the roof is disposed in cros·s gables Union, Reginald Henry Foster and the low storey lighted by balustered openings; on Registrar of Births & Deaths for the Knowle Sub­ the right hand side of the doorway the steps used for District, John Wakefield mounting on horseback still remain; the clustered chim­ ney shafts are of a bold but usual type ; within there Free School (mixed), for zoo children, average attend­ is a massive staircase, and some of the upper rooms re­ ance, 154, with an endowment of £4o per annum from tain their old panelling and fireplaces : the house was the trustees of Knowle united charities; the endow­ :restored in 1886. Henry Townshend Bou}tbee esq. and ment is intended to clothe & educate boys & girls, of George Alien Everitt esq. are chief land!)wnerJSo. The I whom there are at present 24; Henry Lees, master; soil is clayey; subsoil, limestone. The chief crop:; aro Mrs. Sarah Lees, infants' mistress wheat, beans and oats. The area is 3,258 acres; rate· Railway Station, William Farmer, station master able value, £rs,o65; the population in 1881 wa.s I,5J4· Carrier.-Eagles' cart leaves for Birmingham daily at and in t8gx was r,8r8. 9.30 a.m. returning same day

(Marked thus * receive their letters Hetherington Mrs Wakefi~ld John, The Poplars, Sta- via .) Hill Wil!liam Oliver, Station road tion road *'Hlo([den Ed'Ward Hopkinson, Chessett Wale William Henry, Uplands PIUVATB RESIDENTS. wood Walker John James, Oakfield Adams Rupert Henry, Granville road Ibbotson Robert, Station road Walker Sydney Stewart, Woodside Aldington John, The Ferns Ingerthorpe John R. Lodge road Walker Thomas, Temple road Aldridge R~v. R. Spencer IM . .A. (chap- Jacks Ml's. Dorridge road Webb Miss, Crown cottage [ain of St. Philip's, North Pack- Jackson George, Norton green West .Arthur B. Granville road wood), Station road Jaques Charles H. The Dorridge WhiMield Frank, Dorridge road Allday Edmund, Spring coppice Jame·s John Jesse, Dinedon Wilcox Miss &rber Sidney . Vaug.han, Westfie1d, Jordan Johrt, Oaklands Williams Thomas J. E. Granville road .Arden road Juby Miss Woodwa:rd Henry, Hill crest :match Wil'liam Gabriel, Midland Kemp Mrs. West hill Wootton John, Westmoors Counties Idiot asylum Kimbell Mrs. The Manor house Y()Ung Fredk. .Aubrey, .Arden road Boldry Robert, Granville road *Ki~ The Misses, Chessett wood Booth Samuel, Batt's hill Kiss William, Station road _ COMMERCIAL. Bowen J·a.mes Ernest C. Station road Leete Benjamin E. Station road .A.dams William & .John, boot makflrs :Bower :Misses, The Lodge Lester C. Uoyd, Selborne, T~mple rd Adams Th0111as, baker Bower Ja.m~s, Noble, Dorridge road Ludlow Wa.lter R. Dorridge roa.d .Adams Thos. famner, Norton's green Burdett. Mrs. .Arden lodge Lymer Bemja.min, The Grove .Aldridge Jesse, farmer Butlin Philip M. .Arden road Machin Frank, Station road .Argent Cha.rles Frederick, butcher Carter C . .Albert, Woodside, Grove rd Mackenzie Julius H. Granville road .Av~rn Thom111s, farmer Cha.plain Misses, Milverton villas Marston John, Parkfield Ball Samuel, machinist Christopherson Mrs. Stowe hoos~ Mrurtingale .Albert, Station road Ball Samuel (Mrs.), dr~~.~p81r Clutterbuck Edwin, ..A.rden road Mo:rton Mrs. Station road Ba.rlow Chaxles, blacksmith, Baker's la Collier Miss O'Connor .Arthur, Dorridge grove Ba:rrett Richard, butcher & farmer Colmore Thos.Milnes J.P. The Warren Osborne Miss, Station road Beas:ley