DIRECTORY. J NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. WEEDON LOJS. 327 Girls', built in 1912, for 128 girls; Miss Matilda Carriers to Northampton.-George Shirley, mon. wed. Newbery, mistress fri. & sat Infants', built in 1912, for 104 children; Mrs. Anuie There is a frequent service of motor omnibuses to AJUey, mistress Northampton Railway Station, William T. Eason, station master LOWER WEED ON, Watts George, builder Northamptonshire Union Bank Limited Firderer Augustine Marcus, Ivy ho Watts Samuel, builder (sub-branch) (W. R. Birney, man­ Gascoigne Mrs. Excelsior cottage Weedon & District Conservative &i ager) (open sat. 9 to r2); draw on Go:II J oseph, South view Unionist Association (Sir Charles Williams Deacon's Bank Limited, Keysell Rev. Folliott Sandford M . .A. Knightley hart. president ; Leonard London E C (vicar &i rural dean & chaplain to Hazlewood, hon. sec) Redwood Mary (Mrs.), dress maker the Forces), Vicarage Weedon Gas Light & Coke Co. Ltd. Reeve Amy (Miss), straw hat maker ~oberts John David, Victoria cottage (George C. Wallis, sec) Roberts William Wall Ltd. builders Boberts William Wall, Sunnycroft Woodruffe Mary (Mrs.), dairy Rowell Thos. boot &i shoe warehouse Smith Thomas Wyman &i Sons Limited, booksellers Sabin Henry, beer retailer Sedgwick Charles Humphrey M.B., Walton Mrs ROAD WEEDON. W oodruffe .Mrs B.C.Cantab. (firm, Harrisson & COMMERCIAL. PRIV A. TE RY.StDENTS. Sedgwick), physician & surgeon, Barge Mrs & Early closing day, Thursday. medical officer public vaccinator Beasley George, Edge Hills house No. 3 division, Daventry union &; Abrams Albert, draper Blain William, Hill Top house medical officer {)f health for Daven· Arlidge Christopher Wm. photogrphr King George, The Lawn try borough, New house. Tele· Arlidge Thomas, bee keeper Level'Such Arthur (barrack warden), phone No. 4 Daventry Banner J ames, baker The Barracks Sibley Robert Horne, hair dresser Boon Arthur, fishmonger Rowell Thomas J .P Smith John & Sons, grocers ·Boys Thos. & Sons, tailors & drapers Sedgwick Charles Humphrey M.B. Smith W. H. &i Son, news agents Clark Charles, shopkeeper New house Smith Frederick, saddler Cemetery (Frederick Haydn Dunkley. Waring Lieut.-Col. H Smith Sydney, grocer, Post office clerk to the Burial Authority) Watson Noah, 16 High street 8outhgate llenjamin, Horse Shoe P.H Coles Albert, stationer Webster Joseph Hy. L.R.C.P.Edin Walker Alfred M.A., M.D., B.C.Camb. Conservative & Unionist Working physician & mrgeon Men's Club (John E. Walker, sec) COMMERCIAL. W atson Henry W illiam, -registrar of Dunkley Frederi-ck Haydn, boot & Early closing day, Thursday. births & deaths, & vaccination · shoe maker, assistant overseer & Barge Frederick Thomas ( exors. of), officer W eedon sub-district, t5 clerk to Parish Council,15 Church st farmers, Manor house High street Ganderton Alice (Mrs.), confectioner . Barker N ellie (Miss), dress maker W atson Thomas, greengrocer &c Gardner Charles, beer retailer Beasley Geor"'e, tax collector, Ed"'e Webster Joseph Henry L.R.C.P. Harpole Industrial & Provident So- Hills house.., "' Edin., M.R.C.S.Eng. physician &I ciety Limited (branch) Capital & Counties Bank Limited surgeon, & surgeon to Post office Hazlewood William Arthur, butcher (open fri. 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.); Welch William, Red Lion inn & farmer draw on head office, 39 Thread- Wilson Edwin, White Hart inn Hornsby William, insurance agent needle street, London E C Wilson Herbert, draper Hughes William Lawrence, Admiral Clarke George Henry, Wheatsheaf inn Nelson P.H Dale George, farm bailiff to exors. King Henry Thomas, baker of F. T. Barge U:pPER WEEDON. Labrum William George, carter, & Foster .Alfred, cycle maker Pargiter William George, Tithe house Maltsters' Arms P.H Globe Hotel & Hunting Eatab- Perry Cornelius, Weedon hill ' Lepper Elizabeth (Mrs.), butcher lishment (F. C. Tuck, manager); Wager Capt. Euclid Brooks (late Lucy Ro-bert, butcher centre of Grafton & Pytchley R.F.A) Marsh William, carpenter country; 28 loose boxes; terms Walker Henry, Fern hollow Masonic Lodge (No. 2555 England's moderate; motor garage, pit &c Centre); held at the Horse Shoe Green George, shoeing smith COMMERCIAL. inn (J. H. Morley, sec) Hale Francis Geonge, poultry farmer Arnold William, wheelwright & joiner Pinfold George, beer retailer Hancock Sarah (Miss), dress maker Brown Elizabeth (Mrs.), grocer Plume of Feathers Inn (George Chas. Harrisson & Sedgwick, physicians & Cox Henry J. farmer, W eedon hill Wallis, proprietor) surgeons , Goff George, farmer & land owner, Roberts Albert, grocer & ironmonger Holt Mary Alice (Mrs.), refreshment The Outwards farm Robinson G. W. insurance agent rooms Izzard William, Old Crown P.H • Tarrant Frederick Eden, insur. agent Kirk Jame~, New Inn hotel, & job- Leach William., Duke William P.H Towers William George, carter master; good accommodation for Montgomery Bertha (Mrs.), farmer Valentine Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper motorists & cyclists; cycle & motor Russell Henry J. grazier Wallis George Charles, bailiff of tht.> agent; depot for Dunlop motor Russell James, farmer manor of W eedon Beck & sec. to tyrPs & all kinds of motor ac- Russell J ames Williani, farmer the Weedon Gas Light & Coke Co. cessories ; motoJI {!arage & pit Shidey George, carrier Limited, West street Lane Leslie Harry4 Queen's Head P.H Shortland Richard, farmer WEEDON LOIS is a parish, 3 miles east oi Wappen- tile churchwardeus and overseers, who are annual and ham 11tation on the Stratford-on-Avon and Midland removable: up to about the year r86o it produced Junction railway, 7 milPs west from Towcester and 7i about £rs yearly, but was then, at the instance of the north from Brackley, : ~ :'•e Southern Division of the late Rev. S. Sxpith, inclosed and drained; it is now lef; county, hundred ot' \rr<"cfl's Norton, petty sessional out in allotments to the poor of the parish, and pro­ division, union and county court. district of Towcester, duces a rent of £24 a year, which is distribnted to the Pnral deanery of Bracldey (second portion), arr.hdea- poor at Christmas in coals: Mrs. Jane Leeson, d Ab­ coney of Northampton and diocese of Peterborough. thorpe, devised in the yl'ar 1646 the yearly sum of £1 to The church of SS. Peter and Mary is an ancient cruci- be distributed to the poor. The Warden and Fellows of form building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, .\11 Sonls' Colle!!e, Oxford, who are lords of the manor, aisles, south porch and a low embattled central tower Mrs. Thomas, the vicar, William George D. Cooper esq. with pinnacles, containing 4 bells: the east and west and others are the landowners. The soil is various, windows are stained and in the chancel is a memorial principally clay. The chief crops are wheat and beans. window, placed by his widow, to the Rev. Samuel Smith The parish consists of about equal portions of arable M. A. vicar of Weed on Lois for 35 years t H132-67) : and pa.sture. The area i~ 2,304 acres, including its there are 300 sittings. The register dates from the year hamlets; rateable .alue. £3,058; the population in 1559· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £3oo, 19n was 354· with residence, in the gift of the Provost and Fellow~ • of King's College, Cambridge, and held smce 1903 by MILTHORPE is a hamlet of WePdon Lois, where tha the Rev. Samuel Lidbetter, of Downing College, Cam­ school for the -whole parish is situated, bridge, who is also rector of Plumpton. The land called "Weston Wild," at Weston, was allotted to the Post Office, Weedon Lois.-Prank Brown, ·sub-post­ pcol' on the enclosure of the parish in 1773, in lieu of master. Letters received t'hrough Towcester at ;.25 their ri~ht of grazing and cutting furze, the manage­ a.m . .\:; 1 p.m.; dispatched at 11 a.m. & :;.15 p.m.; ment of it for their benefit being placed in the hand!' no mnday delivPry. Wappenham is the nearest monry of the vicar for the time being as perpetual and ine­ order office & Weston, 1 mile di<:tant. the neare5~ movable trustee, togethE'r with other trustees, including telE.'g-raph & telephone office· .