240 5TOURBRIDGE . [KELLY'S Yardley William, butcher, Old Swinford Young Minnie (Miss), dress ma. 52 Bridgnorth rd.Wollstn Yates Alfred, postmaster, High street IYoung Samuel, tailor, Hay green, Lye Yates Nathaniel, rope & twine maker, 159 Enville street IYoung Thomas, outfitter, High street, Lye Yeates Alfred, chemist, 50 High street Young William, carpenter &u builder, Lion street

STOURPORT.

STOURPORT, formerly a market town, dating as such COU~TY MAGISTRATES FOR THE STOURPORT from 1768, is the hood of a petty sessional division, with a PETTY SESSIONAL DIVISION. station (which is in the parish of Vpper Mitton), and is Danks Benjamin esq. Charlton house, Hartlebnry, Kidder. on the Severn Valley section of the Great Western railway minster, chairman 22 miles from Birmingham, 20 south-west from , 16 Hampton Lord, 'Waresley court, , Kidderminstr south-west from , 4 south-west from Kidder­ Baldwin _Ufred esq. D.L., M.P. Wilden house, Stourpori minster, 12 north from Worcester and 133 from , Baldwin Edward Arthur, esq. The Mount, Stourport in the Mid division of the county, Lower Halfshire Baldwin Enock esq. Malvern hundred, union and county court district, Brinton John esq. Moor hall, Stourport rural deanery of Kidderminster, and archdeaconry and Broome Edward Alfred esq. Areley Court, Stourport diocese of Worcester. Here is the junction of the Staf­ Cookes Thos. Hy. esq. D.L. The Old Hill, Astley,Stourpor~ fordshire and Worcestershire canal and of the Stour with Crane John Henry esq. Oakhampton, Stourport the , on which there is' a considerable carry­ Danks Reginald Martin esq. Charlton house, Hartlebury, ing trade to all parts of the kingdom. The Severn is here Kidderminster crossed by a handsome iron bridge, opened in 1870. Jones Arthur esq. The Rectory, Ombersley The "Local Government Act, 1858" (21 and 22 Vict. c. Lloyd Sampson Zachray esq. Areley hall, Stourport 98) was> adopted 27th Nov. 1863, and the township (Stour­ Moore Walter esq. Severn house, Stourport port and Lower Mitton) was governed by a Local Board, Vawdrey Rev. Daniel M.A. Rectory, Areley Kings, Strprt but under the provisions of the "Local Government Act, Clerk to the Magistrates,Richd.Hemingway,27Bridge st 1894," Stourport was' constituted a separate parish, in­ Petty Sessions held at the Petty Sessional Court House, 16 cluding Lower Mitton, and is now governed by an Urban York street, every alternate tuesday at 10.30 forenoon. District Council, and Upper Mitton is now, under the same The following places are within the petty sessional divi­ Act, a separate . The streets are paved and sion :-Areley Kings, Astley, Hartlebury, Lower MlttOD, lighted with gag. from works in Cheapside, built in 1865 Upper Mitton & and the property of a limited company. The church of St. Michael, Lower Mitton, standing on a steep ascent liE'ar the URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL. entrance to the town from the railway station, is a plain Meetings held in the Town hall the first wednesday in the edifice of brick, consisting of chancel, nave with gallerie8, month, at 3 p.m transepts and a western tower, containing 2 bells: the in. terior underwent a general restoration in 1883, when a Members. good brass lectern, designed by J. O. Scott esq. F.S.A. Chairman, Edward Arthur Baldwin J.P. architeet, and costing £108, was presented by the late .j:William Cane tThomas Vale vicar: there are now sittings fur 700 persons, some :j:Richard Evans tEdward Baldwin Worth being appropriated. :j:Walter }Ioore ~Edward Arthur Baldwin The new church, now (and since 1888) in course of iCharles Mytton ~Edward Collens erection, of stone, in the Decorated style, from +John Pratt ~Rev. Benjamin Gibbons designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott R.A. begun in 1'William Dorsett ~rAlfred Johnson 1888, will consist of chancel, with aisles, vestries and t Donald Cargill Martin ~Roland Baldwin Worth organ chamber, nave of six bays, aisles, south porch and a tJohn William PoweU western tower with spire. The register dates from the Marked thus + retire in April, 19°0. year 1693. The living was declared a vicarage 7th Aug. Marked thus t retire in April, 1901 • 1896, net yearly value, £420, with residence and garden, Marked thus ~ retire in April, 19°2. in the gift of the Vicar of Kidderminster, and held since 1894 by the Rev. Oswald Allen Moore M.A. of Magdalen OFFICERS. College, Oxford. In Raven street is a Church Mission Clerk, Charles Hugh Watson, 32 High street room, and there is also a Wesleyan chapel with 550 Treasurer, Arthur Wadham Gabriel, Metropolitan Bank sittings, a Primitive Methodist chapel in Lickhill road, (of & Wales) Limited built in 1855, seating ISO persons, a Congregational Medical Officer of Health, E. Stanley Robinson L.R.C.P. chapel in Mitten street, with sittings for 300. The Stour­ Lond. York house port Literary Institute, opened in 1845, contains a library Surveyor, Sanitary Inspector & Collector, Charles J. of about 1,000 volumes. In the town is an iron foundry J efferies, )Iitton gardens for hollow ware, hinges &c.; the \Vilden iron works, Custodian of Town Hall, Thomas Smith, Prospect road, about one mile distant, in Hartlebury parish, also employ many hands; carpet weaving is carried on, and there • PUBLIC 'ESTABLISHMENTJS. are also maltings. The wharfage here is excellent, but County Police Station, York street, Thomas Long, Ilupt. the river traffic is less extensive than formerly. The & 4 constables market days are Wednesday and Saturday, but are nearly Volunteer Fire Brigade, Engine Station, Mitten street, obsolete, the fairs being entirely abolished. The Swan William Roden, captain, & lImen hotel, in the High street, and the Tontine hotel, Severn Medical Aid Association, Donald Cargill Martin M.A., Side, are both well appointed establishments. At Red M.D. resident surgeon Stone, near Stourport, is a hermitage, hewn oui of the red sandstone rock, adjoining the Severn; here was formerly VOLUNTEERS. a ferry. Moor Hall is the residence Qf John Brinton esq. 1st Volunteer Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment (B D.L., J.P. Campbell J. Craven esq. who is lord of the Co.); head quarters & armoury, Mart lane; Capt. manor, and John Brinton esq. are the principal landowners. Reginald M. Danks, commanding; Roland Baldwin The area is 1,801 acres; assessable value of Lower Mitton worth, lieut.; Sergt. James McCartney, drill instructor with Stourport, £II,664; the population in 1891 was 3,5°4. PUBLIC OFFIOERIS. Parish Clerk, Alfred Gibbs. Clerk to the Commissioners of Taxes, Charles Hugb Watson, 32 High street Post, M. O. & T. 0., S. R, Express Delivery & Annuity & Collector of Poor's Rates, Thomas H. GandertoJl, Insurance C?ffice.-William James Warren, postmaster. Prospect road, Upper Mitton Letters arnve from all parts at 5..22 a.m. ~ & 6.30 Inland Revenue Officers, William Edward Golden, 22 p.m.; sundays, ? a.m. First del~very .begms at 7 I Bridge street & David Bane, 19 High street a.m.; second delIvery at 2.1'5 & thIrd dehvery 7 p.m. I Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Astley District, week days; sundayiiJ, 7 a.m. Dispatehed to all parts, Union, E. Stanley Robinson L.R.C.P.Lond. 8.10 a.m.; London, Kidderminster 1& , 12.5 York house p.m.; Birmingham & Worcester, 12.35 p.m.; all parts, Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Hartlebury District, 6.40 & 9 p.m. with extra !d. ,stamp,S minutes later. Droitwich Union & Lower Mitton District, Kidder- 'Wall Letter Boxes at Lichfield street, cleared at 10.40 minster Union, WaIter Moore, Severn house, New st a.m. & 6.25 p.m.; Mitton'Street, at 10.35 a.m. & 6.20 Registrar of Births & Deaths for the Sub-District of p.m.; Foundry street, at 10.30 a.m. & 6.20 p.m.; Lower Mitton, Kidderminster Union, Sidney M. Glover, Farmted, :B a.m. & 6. IS p.m. except sundays 7 Lichfield street