DIRECTORY.] . KINVER. 225 Messrs. Edward Webb and Sons, the seedsmen to the late ' PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.

and growmg of choice stocks of farm seeds, whwh are Public Library & Reading Room, Miss L. Showell, hon. sent to all parts of the world: they have also about librarian 5,000 acres in different parts of the kingdom, where the • soil and circumstances are fav{)urable for the produc- PUBLIC OF'l'liOERS. tion of various kinds of seeds. .A great part of the land 1 .Assistant Overseer, .Albert James Bennett is a light sand, with sandy loam, and particularly strong 1 Certifying Factory Surgeon, John Percy Holyoake clay. The chief crops are barley and swedes The area L.R.C.P.Edin is g,oii acres; rateable value, £13,546; the population Medical Officer & Public Vaccinator, Kinver District, Seis- in 1901 was 2,176. don Union, John Percy Holyoake L.R.C.P.Edin Whittington, I mile east, on the road from Kingswin- Regi~trar of _Births & De~ths i?r Kinver Sub-district, ford to (the Countess of Stamford. and Umon, .Albert Bills, High street Warrington is lady of the manor); Compt{)n, 2 miles west; Dunsley, I mile north; , 3 miles east of SCHOOLS. • the village, are hamlets. Free Grammar, originally founded 15rr, in the reign of King Henry VIIT., is endowed with property of the Stou:rton is a hamlet, 2 miles north. Stourton Castle, value of about £250 a. year: the charity is managed an edifice of stone, now much modernized, was the birth­ under a scheme drawn up by the Endowed School Com­ place May, 15oo) of Reginald, Cardinal Pole, Arch· (n & bishop of Canterbury (r556-8), and was garrisoned in the missioners issued in 1878, but since r8g8 it has been opened for both boys & girls ; Rev. Charles Henry Cole time of the Civil War; it is now the property of Paul 1 B.A.Lond. master Henry Foley esq. of Prestwood House. 1 Parish Clerk, Edwin Webb. Public Elementary. Boys, built in 1877, for 16o boys; average attendance, Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., E. D., P. P., S. B. & g6; P. Isaiah Foley, master .A. & I. 0.-Miss Jane Collis, sub-postmistress. Let­ Girls', built in 1873, for 173 children; average attend­ ters arrive from Swurbridge by foot post at 6.30 a.m. ance, roo; .Miss Margaret Durant, mistress & 2.30 p.m. ; dispatched at 9.50 a.m. & 4.25 & 6.5o Infants', for 16o children; average attendance, 70; Mrs. p.m. & on sundays at II-55 a.m Alice Milward, infants' mistress Post Office, Stourton.-Miss Ann Yardley, sub-postmis- tress. Letters arrive from by mail cart C.ARRIERS. at 6.15 a.m. & 2.30 p.m.; dispatched at 7·15 p.m. & .Alfred Welch, daily to Stourbridge; leaves 8.30 a.m. &. on sundays at 12 p.m. Postal Orders are issued & paid 2.30 p.m. ret urnmg· a t II a.m. & 4·45 p . m . ; t o K'dI - here. Kinver is the nearest money order & telegraph derminster on thurs office, r! miles distant John Pursall, to Kidderminster, on sat. 12 noon, return- Wall Letter Boxes.-Potters Cross, cleared 6.5o p.m.; ing at 3.30 p.m sundays, 11.45 a.m.; Stewponey, cleared ro.rs a.m. & William Morgan, to Stourbridge when required 6 p.m.; sunda.ys, xr.4o a.m.; Stourton hall, cleared Kinver Light Railway trams to Stourbridge & Dudley at 7.15 a. m. & 7· 10 p.m.; not on sundays every half hour PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bowen Thos. fancy repos. 43 High st Ha.rris Susan (Mrs.), Old Plough P.H Blakeway Joseph Bowker George, butcher, 42 High st Harrison Hannah (Miss), draper, 34 Bury Miss, High street Brettell John, butcher, '5I High street & 35 High street Bury Thomas, High street Brown Harry, shopkeeper Harrison Mary (Miss), fancy reposi- 0 R Oh 1 H BA ( Brown John, market gardener tory, J[igh street ole ev. 1 ar es enry · · curate Burford Sarah (Miss), shopkeeper Hicken William, Fox f.H. Clambrooks & head master of Grammar school) Davies Edward, Whittington hall Cadby Charles, confectioner, High st Hill Louisa(Mrs. ),frmr.Dodson's farm Elwell George, Greyfields Carrington Ell en (Mrs.), refresh. rms Hollingshead Peter,frmr. Compton hall Griffiths Mrs. Iron house, Compton Carroll Thos. Fredk. tailor, 46 High st Holypake John Percy L.R.C.P.Edin., Hall David, Cliffe side, High street Carwell Thomas, Spring Gardens P.H M.R.C.S.Eng. surg~on, & certifying Holmes William, Forest house Chettoe Fredk. Jn. grocer, 36 High st factory surgeon & medical officer &­ C1ewes James T. twine & cord maker, public vaccinator, Kinver district, Holyoake John Percy Foley street Seisdon union Ledwith James, Stewponey Clewes Moses Hodges, grngrcr.High st Hopkins Henry, Crown inn, Iverley Lee Miss Clewes Thomas Matthews, locksmith Jeffries William, shopkpr. 6 High st Lee Misses, Bedcliffe Cox John & Fredk. farmers, Stourton Jenks Fredk. grocer, 48 High street Lumb Mrs Mathews Randle Lamb, Stourton crt Darby John, farmer & cattle dealer, Johnson Jn. Crump,farmr.Whittingtn 1 High pari;:, Stourton Jones Jpseph, Royal ~xchange P.H Neil Collis, H!lllllpt