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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway + from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester + + +Author: James Drake + + + +Release Date: July 31, 2013 [eBook #43367] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRAKE'S ROAD BOOK OF THE GRAND +JUNCTION RAILWAY*** +</pre> +<p>This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/fp.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Vauxhall Station, Grand Junction Railway, Vauxhall, Birmingham" +title= +"Vauxhall Station, Grand Junction Railway, Vauxhall, Birmingham" +src="images/fp.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DEDICATED BY +PERMISSION TO THE CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTORS OF THE</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h1><span class="GutSmall">DRAKE’S</span><br /> +ROAD BOOK<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">OF THE</span><br /> +GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY</h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND +MANCHESTER,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ILLUSTRATED BY AN</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ACCURATE MAP, AND NUMEROUS +ENGRAVINGS:</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">To which is appended</p> +<p style="text-align: center">THE VISITER’S GUIDE<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">TO</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM, LIVERPOOL, AND +MANCHESTER.</span></p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="pageiii"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. iii</span><span class="GutSmall">TO +THE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">CHAIRMAN AND DIRECTORS</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF +THE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">THIS</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Second Edition</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">THE ROAD BOOK,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">IS,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY +PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY +THE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: right">AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER.</p> +<h2><a name="pagev"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +v</span>ADVERTISEMENT<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">TO THE</span><br /> +SECOND EDITION.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> courteous reception given to +the First Edition of the Grand Junction Road Book, and the +substantial proofs of approbation which a rapid sale has +afforded, render it a duty as proper as it is pleasant, for the +Author and Publisher to return their joint thanks for the liberal +patronage already bestowed on their work; and to engage a +continuance of the same, by their assurances that in the present +edition every possible improvement has been carefully effected in +its various departments. Spirited wood and steel engravings +<a name="citationv"></a><a href="#footnotev" +class="citation">[v]</a> of the most important spots on the line +have been introduced, and much new and interesting matter +supplied. The whole of the information concerning fares, +regulations, stations, <a name="pagevi"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. vi</span>and accommodation in towns on the +route, has been recast, corrected, and enlarged; and a brief but +comprehensive directory added, under the head of “<span +class="smcap">Visiter’s Guide</span>,” page 97, +containing lists of public buildings; institutions of all kinds; +places of worship of all denominations, with names of the +officiating ministers; principal show rooms and manufactories; +times of arrival and departure of mails at the post office; +hackney coach fares; bankers, inns, boarding houses, omnibus +offices, newspapers, canal conveyances, waggon warehouses, +packets, &c., &c., for Birmingham, Manchester, and +Liverpool. The exceeding utility of this new division of +the volume will be obvious to every one. The Map has also +been revised, and greatly improved; and the “<span +class="smcap">Grand Junction Road Book</span>” again makes +its bow to the public, in full expectation that its old fame and +new merits will be rightly appreciated.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><i>Birmingham</i>, <i>September</i> 1, 1838.</p> +<h2><a name="pagevii"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +vii</span>SONNET<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BY WORDSWORTH,</span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ON</span><br /> +STEAM BOATS, VIADUCTS, AND RAILWAYS.</h2> +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Motions</span> and means, on +land and sea at war<br /> +With old poetic feeling; not for this,<br /> +Shall ye, by Poets even, be judged amiss!<br /> +Nor shall your presence, howsoe’er it mar<br /> +The loveliness of nature, prove a bar<br /> +To the mind’s gaining that prophetic sense<br /> +Of future change that point of vision, whence<br /> +May be discover’d what in soul ye are.<br /> +In spite of all that beauty may disown<br /> +In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace<br /> +Her lawful offspring in Man’s art; and Time,<br /> +Pleased with your triumphs o’er his brother Space,<br /> +Accepts from your bold hands the proffer’d crown<br /> +Of hope, and smiles on you with cheer sublime.</p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/mapb.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Map of the route of the Grand Junction Railway" +title= +"Map of the route of the Grand Junction Railway" +src="images/maps.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h2><a name="page1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 1</span>CHAPTER +I.<br /> +BIRMINGHAM.</h2> +<p +class="gutsumm">NAME—HISTORY—MANUFACTURES—PUBLIC +BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS, &c., &c.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Our</span> native town of <span +class="smcap">Birmingham</span>, of whose celebrity and +importance we are justly proud, demands our first attention in +this our Itinerary; although the numerous publications which give +more circumstantial particulars respecting it than the brief +limits of the present work will admit, render it an unnecessary +task here to occupy many pages with our notice.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In our after topography and history of towns on the +“Grand Junction” line, we shall have occasion to +allude to their several claims to the honours of “hoar +antiquity;” but none it would appear can boast of more +remote fame than our own brave old town of Birmingham, or, as it +has been variously written, <i>Bromycham</i>, <i>Bremecham</i>, +<i>Bermyngham</i>, and <i>Bromnsycham</i>, the etymology of which +terms have served to puzzle the learned in such lore for years +gone by, and will do for years to come. What never can be +positively settled, always proves a most fascinating subject for +argument. Mr. Hutton, the antiquary, imagines the +derivation to <a name="page2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +2</span>be this: <i>wich</i>, or <i>wick</i>, being used to +signify a town or village, and <i>brom</i>, from the <i>broom</i> +growing in the vicinity. But we must leave the subject for +more voluminous writers. The late Mr. Hamper, our especial +antiquary, traced the orthography through no less than <i>one +hundred and forty</i> variations. In proof of Birmingham +being a place of no very recent creation, the prodigious +accumulation of scoria produced by the smelting of iron, at Aston +furnace, may be referred to; as also the great number of +exhausted coal mines, on a large common within a few miles, +called Wednesbury Old Field. Both these must have been the +work of many centuries, as is proved by the fact, that in the +former, the mass of scoria has not perceptibly increased within +the memory of that remarkable individual, “the oldest +inhabitant,” though constantly receiving additions. +It appears that the Britons were acquainted with the use and +manufacture of iron previously to the Roman conquest, as they are +described with chariots armed with scythes. It requires no +very great stretch of imagination to suppose Birmingham (the +<i>Bremenium</i> of the Romans) to have been a chief station for +the fabrication of such weapons. In Doomsday Book, +“<i>Bermengeham</i>” is noticed; and the manor and +lordship were held by the De Birmingham family and their +ancestors, during the reigns from Henry I. to Henry VIII., when +John Dudley, afterwards Duke of Northumberland, being in +possession of Dudley, and desirous of adding to it the manor of +Birmingham, contrived, by a series of villanous artifices and +perjury, to wrest it from Edward de Birmingham, and add it to his +own possessions. On the <a name="page3"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 3</span>attainder and execution of the duke, +in the reign of Mary, the manor escheated to the crown; and in +1643 a descendant of the family, through the female line, was +raised to the peerage, by the title of Baron Ward, of Birmingham, +changed afterwards to Viscount Dudley and Ward, and Earl of +Dudley. The remains of the ancient manor house have long +been removed to make way for improvements; its former name, +“The Moat,” (now called Smithfield,) and two +neglected effigies in St. Martin’s church, of a crusader +and an ecclesiastic of the De Birmingham family, are all that +remain to tell of their former greatness. Few historical +events seem to have disturbed the good people of Birmingham +except the civil war of the seventeenth century, when they proved +themselves staunch adherents to the parliamentarians, and did +good service to their partizans, against Prince Rupert and his +troops, at which time some earth works thrown up at Bordesley, +conferred the name of Camp Hill on a part of it. The prince +afterwards set fire to the town, but obligingly desisted from +further demonstration of such warm regard, on being handsomely +bribed to that effect. The riots of 1791 are so frequently +brought to the minds of our town’s people by present +allusions, that it needs not to dwell here on the disgraceful +theme. Turning to a pleasanter topic, we will briefly +glance at the manufactures which made an anonymous poet formerly +exclaim,—</p> +<blockquote><p>“Europe’s grand toy-shop, art’s +exhaustless mine—<br /> +These, and more titles, Birmingham, are thine.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>It is amusing to look back to the condition of <a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>Birmingham in +Leland’s time, (Henry VIII.,) who describes it as inhabited +only “by smithes that use to make knives and all manner of +cutting tools, and lorimers that make bittes, and a great many +nailors.” Camden, in the reign of Elizabeth, speaks +of it as “swarming with inhabitants, and echoing with the +noise of anvils; but the upper part rising with abundance of +handsome buildings;” and his continuator, Bishop Gibson, in +the reign of Anne, mentions “its artificers in iron and +steel, whose performances in that way are greatly admired both at +home and abroad.” Prior to the restoration of Charles +II. the town only consisted of one long street, extending from +the hamlet of Deritend to the present Bull-street, and contained +barely 5,000 inhabitants. <i>Now</i>, the probably correct +amount would stand thus: streets, 340; houses, 22,000; +population, 200,000. Birmingham was created a borough by +the Reform Bill, and sends two members to parliament. The +honours of a mayor and corporation are now added to its civil +dignities.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Among the almost innumerable branches of trade and manufacture +at present carried on, are light and heavy steel goods, (here +called toys,) brass and iron foundery, sadlery, military +accoutrements, fire-arms, swords and cutlery of various kinds; +jewellery, gold, silver, and plated goods; buttons, medals, +japannery; gilt, silver, ivory, bone, and other toys; glass, +wood-turnery, metal-rolling, tools and implements of all kinds; +mill machinery of all sorts, and steam engines on every known +principle. Casting, modelling, die-sinking, engraving, and +other processes connected <a name="page5"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 5</span>with the various manufactures have +been brought to the greatest perfection; also the cutting of +glass, of which there are many brilliant specimens in the +show-rooms of the town, especially those of Messrs. Rollason, +Price, Henderson, Mrs. Bedford’s, &c. The great +establishment at the Soho, near Birmingham, is intimately +connected with its manufacturing interests, as under the +superintendence of Messrs. Boulton and Watt, great improvements +were effected in all kinds of machinery, and the power of steam +applied to every mechanical purpose. From their ingenious +coining mill, the greater part of the copper money of George III. +was issued. Mr. Boulton died in 1809, aged eighty-one, and +Mr. Watt in 1819, aged eighty-three. They were both +interred in Handsworth church, where a marble bust commemorates +the former, and a statue, by Chantrey, the latter.</p> +<blockquote><p>In the magnificent show-rooms of Mr. G. R. Collis +in Church-street, (formerly Sir E. Thomason’s,) splendid +specimens of the chief native manufactures are collected, and +their mode of manufacture shown to all respectable +visitors. Mr. Phipson’s pin manufactory, which in +this seemingly small article employs so great a number as one +thousand persons, is another large establishment; and the +articles of oriental gorgeousness and diversity, displayed by +Messrs. Jennens and Betteridge, at their japanned ware and papier +maché manufactory, in Constitution-hill, are full of +brilliant designs and adornment. The show-rooms of Messrs. +Mapplebeck and Lowe, Osborne, and others, contain a great variety +of hardware and cutlery.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Of ponderous machinery, none perhaps is more interesting than +that of the metal rolling mills; there is positive grandeur in +the great power employed, and <a name="page6"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 6</span>the accuracy with which it is adjusted +to the end required. The button manufacture is a principal +source of wealth to the town, and many of its chief families may +trace back their origin (their <i>honourable</i> origin—far +more truly honourable than the anxiety occasionally shown by +present full-blown importance to disguise it) to a humble +fabricator of these small and indispensable articles. They +are made of all kinds and descriptions, to suit all markets; as +were buckles likewise, some years since; but fashion, that mighty +revolutionist, has driven them from their once prominent station +in the toilet of the exquisite of former days; and knees and +shoes, and dainty spangled and high heeled slippers, fit for +feminine feet, have all laid by the buckles which used to glitter +in cut steel and silver delicately worked, or set with +brilliants; and of so comely dimensions, as well nigh to cover +the pretty insteps of our grandmothers. As a source of +great wealth to our native town, we must regret the abolition of +ornamental buckles. Steel tools, and lighter, tasteful +articles, form another great branch. The first steel-house, +or factory, gave the name “Steelhouse-lane” to the +street. Guns were first made in the reign of William III., +and in times of war have constituted an important part of our +trade. Silver, brass, and iron are all wrought to a great +extent, in every known variety of manufacture. To enumerate +<i>all</i> the productions of Birmingham were nearly an +impossible task, had we space; as it is, we must rest here, and +proceed to notice a few of the chief buildings and institutions +which would attract the observation of a stranger.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p7.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Birmingham Town Hall" +title= +"Birmingham Town Hall" +src="images/p7.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 7</span>First, of +the first class, ranks our noble and magnificent Town Hall, in +Paradise-street, a Grecian temple of the Corinthian order, +standing on a rustic basement, and built of marble from +Anglesea. It is of recent erection; from the design, and +under the direction of Mr. J. Hansom, of Hinckley, and contains a +splendid hall, 140 feet long, by 65 feet wide, and 65 feet high, +adapted for great public meetings, and for the performances of +music at the Triennial Festivals; <a name="citation7"></a><a +href="#footnote7" class="citation">[7]</a> it also contains +spacious saloons, committee rooms, etc. Its organ is the +finest in the kingdom. The new Free Grammar School, in +New-street, is a large and handsome building, in the Gothic +style, from a design by Mr. Barry, of London. The +exhibition rooms of the Birmingham Society of Arts, New-street, +form a handsome building, admirably adapted for the purpose; and +the annual exhibition, of ancient and modern masters, is inferior +to no provincial one. Another spacious suite of rooms was +erected a few years since, by a dissentient party of the artists; +but, having returned to the parent institution, their gallery +since has been occupied by the highly interesting, valuable, and +well-arranged Museum of Natural History, collected by Mr. Weaver, +in the various branches of geology, ornithology, entomology, +mineralogy, conchology, &c. The Royal School of +Medicine and Surgery, in Paradise-street, have now purchased this +splendid collection, which, joined to the one they already +possess, will form one of the finest Museums in the <a +name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>provinces. It is liberally supported and patronised +by the neighbouring nobility and county families. The +General Hospital, Blue Coat School, Dispensary, and Asylums, are +worthy of all praise for their essential utility as +charities. The former is mainly supported by the proceeds +of the Triennial Festivals; the others by liberal subscriptions, +with which the inhabitants of Birmingham appear ever ready to +increase the usefulness of charities having for their end the +alleviation of misery, in whatever form it exists. The new +Market Hall, extending from the Bull-ring to Worcester-street, is +a spacious and commodious building, though the internal +arrangement might be greatly improved, by a little more attention +to order and neatness on the part of the various trades-people +who have stalls there. The market having formerly been held +in the open street, may, in some degree, account for this. +Nearly opposite the hall stands a statue of Lord Nelson, by +Westmacott, with a miniature man-of-war beside him, on a pedestal +surrounded by an iron rail and lamps.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The Churches most remarkable for architectural beauty, are, +St. Philip’s, in the Doric style, with a graceful tower and +cupola: Trinity Church, Bordesley, designed by Mr. F. Goodwin, +much in the style of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge; it +is a fine example of the Ecclesiastical Gothic: St. +George’s, also Gothic, but of far inferior beauty; St. +Martin’s, which <i>has</i> been a fine old edifice, with a +tapering spire, but is now disfigured by a brick shell: St. +Paul’s, Christ Church, St. Thomas’s, St. +Peter’s, St. Bartholomew’s, St. Mary’s, All +Saints’, and others are of less striking appearance. +<a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 9</span>Many of the +dissenting congregations have handsome and spacious +meeting-houses and chapels, particularly the Catholic Chapels; +Unitarian Meeting-houses; Independent Meeting-house, +Carr’s-lane; Mount Zion Chapel; Scottish Kirk, +&c. Schools are connected with all, and with the +numerous National, Lancasterian, Infant, and other schools, +combine in distributing knowledge, in however a small degree as +yet, among the useful and industrious classes. The +excellent school for the instruction of Deaf and Dumb children is +pleasantly situated at Edgbaston: there are also various Asylums +for the young, the helpless, and the immoral (repentant, of +course).</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The Old Library, in Union-street, contains a valuable +collection of 40,000 volumes, and commodious reading rooms. +The New Library, in Temple-row, is a more recent and smaller +establishment. Divers conglomerations of novels, called +“Circulating Libraries,” also exist for the benefit +of the sentimental. The Philosophical Institution has a +convenient Lecture-Theatre and Museum in Cannon-street, with a +resident Curator. Subscribers have the privilege of +introducing strangers to the lectures. The members of the +Mechanics’ Institution at present have lectures in the same +building, until the erection of one suitable for them. +Strangers are admitted to the Mechanics’ lectures on +payment of one shilling. The Botanical and Horticultural +Society have extensive gardens and conservatories at Edgbaston, +situated on rising ground, and commanding a beautiful and +richly-wooded expanse of scenery. The exhibitions of +plants, fruits, <a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>&c., when a brilliant company generally assembles, +are scenes of great gaiety.</p> +<blockquote><p>The Conservatories and Greenhouses, are the +erection of Mr. T. Clark, of Lionel-street, Birmingham, whose +manufactory for Metallic Hothouses, &c., is very +extensive.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A Cemetery has been recently laid out and planted on the north +side of the town, at Key Hill, where a large excavation in a hill +of gravel renders the spot striking and even picturesque: a neat +Chapel is erected for the performance of the funeral service.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In 1813 an Act of Parliament was obtained for the erection of +a Proof House for all fire-arms made in the town, which are +subjected to a very severe test. The hall and other +premises are in Banbury-street, and have quite a military and +formidable appearance.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The News Room, on Bennett’s-hill, and the different +banking establishments, are handsome buildings, many of them of +considerable architectural beauty. The Theatre is large, +and inferior to few out of the metropolis, though the indifferent +encouragement given to the drama in Birmingham, causes it to be +comparatively but little used. It is capable of +accommodating 2,500 persons, and contains to the front, a suite +of Assembly Rooms, Billiard and Coffee Rooms, &c. There +were formerly two smaller theatres, and an amphitheatre for +equestrian performances, all three of which have been converted +from their dissolute ways, and become pious and holy conventicles +for divine worship. <a name="page11"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 11</span>Temporary amphitheatres have +frequently been erected since, and a permanent one is in +progress. For more circumstantial particulars and +descriptions of these and other edifices, we must refer our +readers to the “Picture of Birmingham,” <a +name="citation11"></a><a href="#footnote11" +class="citation">[11]</a> or other more lengthy histories.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The environs of the town, especially Edgbaston and Harborne, +contain many tasteful residences, erected by the wealthier +merchants and tradesmen; whose pretty suburban villas have all +gardens and pleasure grounds attached. In the neighbourhood +of Birmingham are many fine old houses, or halls, as they are +called, well deserving of a visit from the antiquary or artist; +and the far famed glories of Warwick, Kenilworth, +Shakespeare-sainted Stratford, Guy’s Cliff, and other +places of renown, are within a short drive.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In this brief survey of the past and present condition of +Birmingham, it will be seen how rapidly its greatness and +importance have been achieved by the perseverance, spirit, and +ingenuity of its inhabitants. We may expect as rapid, and +almost as great improvements from the additional consequence and +advantages it will receive from the great works now nearly +completed. The finished line of railway from London to +Liverpool through this place, may, with confidence, be looked to +as another great era in its history, from whence to date still +increasing wealth, power, and intelligence.</p> +<h2><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>CHAPTER II.<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ROUTE.</span><br /> +BIRMINGHAM TO WOLVERHAMPTON,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Fourteen Miles.</span></h2> +<h3>BIRMINGHAM AND VAUXHALL STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Liverpool and +Manchester, 97¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<p style="text-align: +center"><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> Those printed in +small capitals are market towns.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edgbaston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Erdington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Harborne</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Castle Bromwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Halesowen</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Sutton Coldfield</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Stourbridge</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Water Orton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Curdworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Coleshill</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Wishaw</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Middleton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Drayton Bassett</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Tamworth</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Birmingham Station of the Grand +Junction railway, closely adjoins that of the London and +Birmingham, which greatly facilitates the arrangements of +travellers proceeding along the entire line. Until the +completion of the permanent buildings, those at Vauxhall have +been temporarily used. To a stranger coming into the +station-yard for the first time, the whole scene is one of great +novelty: the long train of treble-bodied coaches, waiting under a +broad covered way for passengers and baggage; the bustle and <a +name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 13</span>animation of +the host of porters, guards, conductors, &c.; the amazement +depicted on some of the faces of the lookers-on; the state of +“intellectual complication” evinced by others, +especially those who, having various items of property to convey +with them, are tremblingly solicitous for the welfare of sundry +“red-striped carpet bags, trunks with wrappering +over,” bandboxes which will be ruined by a drop of rain, +and fish-baskets which have a mortal antipathy to be +squeezed. Other important-looking passengers make up their +minds to take things as a matter of course, and not betray any +vulgar surprise; and from their extremely over-done +<i>nonchalance</i>, would fain persuade you they had made a +journey round the globe in a first-rate train, and reached the +antipodes by a tunnel. These valiant and adventurous +individuals are by far the severest sufferers by the +anti-cigar-act, passed by the Company, for which the unsmoking +part of the community, especially the fair sex, are greatly +indebted. The traveller may refer to the company’s +regulations at full, in the appendix at the end of this +volume. Supposing all preliminaries adjusted, we commence +our journey.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Passing the station at Vauxhall, (closely adjoining to which +are Vauxhall Gardens,) the railroad proceeds by Duddeston, and +passes over the Coleshill road near Saltley Chapel, a small +pigeon-house like edifice to the E. of the line. Aston +Church soon appears on the W., above the rich woods surrounding +it; and the high chimney of the Birmingham Water Works (lately +established to supply the town) is passed on the E. The +steam engines, Hercules and Atlas, erected here for <a +name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>pumping the +water from the reservoir, into the pipes for conveyance to +Birmingham, are perhaps the grandest and most perfect of their +kind ever fabricated. Yardley Village and Perry Barr form +the distant view. The railroad now passes over the Aston +embankment, and a viaduct of ten arches, beneath which runs the +high road to Sutton, and the Fazeley Canal. From this point +the last view is gained of the town of Birmingham, on the W.; and +on the E. a prospect of Gravelly Hill, now nearly levelled, and +the village of Erdington. A short distance onwards the line +passes the front of Aston Hall, a fine old baronial residence in +the Elizabethan style of architecture, erected by Sir Thomas Holt +in 1620, and in which he entertained Charles I. previously to the +battle of Edge Hill. It is situated in a fine park, richly +ornamented with stately timber of ancient growth, and thriving +modern plantations. All the views of this fine old mansion +are strikingly beautiful; but the one commanded from the railroad +line, looking up the avenue of lofty elms, (which the line +crosses,) is the most imposing.</p> +<blockquote><p>James Watt, Esq., the present proprietor, has, it +is said, expended £10,000 in preventing the line of +railroad from passing through his park, which the Company +intended it to do; and in consequence of this opposition a great +curve appears in the course of the line at this part. Iron +works in the neighbourhood have been in operation from remote +antiquity. <a name="citation14"></a><a href="#footnote14" +class="citation">[14]</a></p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p15.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Aston Hall" +title= +"Aston Hall" +src="images/p15.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 15</span>The +Church, which re-appears at several points of the line, is a +beautiful and venerable structure, with a fine tapering spire, +and remarkably musical bells, the sweet tones of which will +scarcely reach the ears of railroad travellers. Part of the +village of Aston is observable from the railroad, and also the +grounds and fish-pans of its “Tavern,” a spot much +frequented by tea (and ale) drinking parties from Birmingham.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>One very agreeable feature of the scenery on the line, is the +unspoiled freshness and verdure of the ground on either +side. The idea most persons entertain respecting such +astounding innovations on ancient usages as steam carriages and +railroads is, that they spread desolation around their path, and +that the track of a locomotive engine must necessarily be as +devastating in its effects as that of a lava course. We +candidly confess to something akin to this suspicion +ourselves. But all “Grand Junction” patrons +must be gratified to find such expectations disappointed so +pleasingly in the cheerful aspect of the fields, groves, and +“little running brooks,” closely bordering the +excavations or embankments. Cattle are quietly feeding just +on the other side the fence, and gay wildflowers already enamel +the newly-made banks. Sometimes, certainly, a horse or cow +may be abruptly interrupted in a quiet meditation by the rapid +rushing by of a “Centaur” or “Alecto,” +with its lengthened <i>tail</i> of many ponderous joints; and one +accident, very singular, if true, occurred lately. A +certain luckless individual of the pig family, having too far +indulged an imprudent spirit of investigation on the Bilston +portion of the line, had his curly conclusion very summarily +amputated by a passing train:—he turned round briskly to +ascertain the extent of his calamity, when another <a +name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>train, +whirling along in an opposite direction, coming in contact with +his head, put a period to the enterprising animal’s +existence by an instant decapitation. We might draw a wise +and serious moral from this “cutting” event, but the +fact presents a sufficient warning to all persons inclined to +incur the penalty of two pounds in sterling coin, and limbs <i>ad +libitum</i>, for the sake of a promenade on the forbidden +ground. “Digression is a sin,”—on the +defunct pig’s head be ours! But for his tragic +history, we should, ere this, have introduced the hill of these +parts, Barr Beacon, to our readers; it appears to the N.E., +crowned with a dense grove of trees. The intervening +scenery is cheerful and cultivated, but not picturesque. +The village of Witton shortly appears to the E., with Barr lying +on the N.E. The bridge here passed is on the boundary of +Warwickshire and Staffordshire, which latter county the line now +enters. Aston Hall and Church again come in sight beyond +Witton, and form a beautiful rear view, which is soon shut out by +the banks of the excavation, precluding all prospect save of +their own sloping sides, the pebbles and markings in which are +made, by the rapidity of passing, to appear like flying +lines.</p> +<h3>Perry Barr Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +3½—Liverpool and Manchester, 94 miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Handsworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile</p> +</td> +<td><p>Perry</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">¾ mile</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Aston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Erdington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¾ miles</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Smethwick</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4¼ miles</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Sutton Coldfield</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Little Aston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Shenstone</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p17.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Aston Church and Viaduct" +title= +"Aston Church and Viaduct" +src="images/p17.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>At this +station, the line makes a considerable curve in an opposite +direction to that hitherto followed, and passes Handsworth, (the +church appearing among wood on the W.,) also Lea Hall, on the W., +and over two bridges, named from J. Gough, Esq., through whose +estate the line runs for two miles. Pleasant, quiet-looking +scenery skirts the road for some distance, and about a mile from +the last bridge, a view is gained of Perry Hall, seat of J. +Gough, Esq., nearly encompassed by a grove of oak trees. At +Hampstead Bridge, the old Walsall road crosses the line; and on +either side the prospect is pleasantly varied by wood and +water. Hampstead Hall, which lies near, is nearly concealed +by its rich woods from the passers on the railroad. The +line shortly enters a cutting, of from sixty to seventy feet +deep; emerging from which into the open country, West Bromwich, +and Sandwell Park, the seat of Earl Dartmouth, appear on the W., +and Barr on the E. We now pass</p> +<h3>Newton Road Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +6¾—Liverpool and Manchester, 90¾ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Place E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>West Bromwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Barr</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oldbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Rowley Regis</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Halesowen</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cradley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Lye</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">West Bromwich</span> has rapidly risen to +importance from the rich iron and coal mines which abound in its +vicinity. The great Gas Works are situated here, <a +name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>which supply +the chief part of Birmingham, Wednesbury, Dudley, Bilston, +Darlaston, and other places with gas; the main tubes extending to +the aggregate length of 150 miles. There are two handsome +churches, the one ancient, the other modern. Population, +15,330.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The site of the present splendid mansion of Sandwell, was, in +the reign of Henry II., occupied by a priory of Benedictine +Monks. Charley Mount, pleasantly situated on a hill, +appears W. of the line, Ray Hall and Burslem, or Bustleholm Mill, +on the E. Before passing Tame Bridge, Barr Beacon again +appears, heading the distant view. Friar Park is on the W., +with the town and church of Wednesbury (usually pronounced +Wedgebury), towering above the trees. Walsall appears from +the same point, lying N.E. of the line.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">Dudley</span>, a town in the centre of the +mining district, lies 5½ miles W. of the line. +Population, 23,050. The ancient castle is a ruin of great +beauty and interest, situated on an eminence, and surrounded with +fine wood and beautiful walks. Stupendous cavern-quarries, +canals, and labyrinthine excavations, extend under the Castle +Hill. The limestone is remarkably rich in fossil treasures; +trilobites, or, as they are vulgarly called, “Dudley +locusts,” have been found here in great variety, but from +the eagerness of collectors, and the inadequate supply of these +ancient creatures yielded by the rocks, they have become scarce +and costly, instead of “not particularly valuable,” +as stated by a contemporary before alluded to.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><a name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span><span +class="smcap">Wednesbury</span> is a town of ancient origin, +having been fortified against the Danes by Ethelfleda, daughter +of Alfred the Great, in 916. Extensive collieries enrich +the vicinity, and tend greatly to darken the complexion of both +houses and inhabitants; the workers of the black diamond +hereabout being a marvellously murky fraternity. Various +manufactures of iron are here carried on, and the air is +generally redolent of the fumes of coal-smoke in no small +degree. The market is on Friday, and fairs May 6, and +August 3.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">Walsall</span> boasts an equally ancient +history with the former place, and was fortified by the same +princess. It stands conspicuously on the summit and +acclivities of a limestone rock, which is crowned by the church, +the lofty spire of which forms a fine object. Market on +Tuesday; fairs September 24, Whit Monday, and Tuesday before +Michaelmas day. Proceeding onwards we pass under</p> +<h3>Bescot Bridge Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +9½—Liverpool and Manchester, 88 miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Wednesbury</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Walsall</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1½ mile</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tipton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 miles</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rushall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Dudley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Over Stonnal</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Netherton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¾ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lower Stonnal</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brierley Hill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8¼ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Shenstone</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>King Swinford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Lichfield</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wordesley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>The Lye</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Stourbridge</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9¾ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Old Swinford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> main road from Wednesbury to +Walsall crosses this bridge; pass Bescot Hall, (Mr. +Marshall’s,) on the E., and reach</p> +<h3><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>James’s Bridge Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +10¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 87¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Darlaston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">¾ mile</p> +</td> +<td><p>Walsall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¾ mile</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coseley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> high road from Walsall crosses +here to <span class="smcap">Darlaston</span>, (seen in the +distance on the W.,) another town in the iron and coal district, +and, according to tradition, the seat of Wulphere, king of +Mercia, who put his two sons to death for embracing +Christianity. On the hill at Berry Bank, are the remains of +a large castle and entrenchments, and near by, a Barrow, which it +were heresy to doubt were the residence and grave of this +redoubtable personage. The chief manufactures of this, as +of the neighbouring towns, consist of various iron and steel +goods. The whole district is abundantly traversed by +canals, tram-roads, &c., for the convenient conveyance of +merchandise, and presents to the passing traveller less subject +for praise in point of beauty, than for admiration and surprise, +at the closely-placed engines, mills, coal-pits, iron-mines, and +factories, which greet him on all sides, with hissing, curling +volumes of white steam, or thick massy clouds of rolling +smoke. Should the traveller journey through this strange +neighbourhood by night, the novel and wild, not to say, grand, +effect of the fires, must strike him forcibly. Huge +furnaces glowing on the earth, from a dark wayside forge; tall +chimneys, themselves not seen in the gloom, vomiting forth flames +and fiery-coloured smoke, or a long range of glowing hillocks, +where flickering <a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>blazes play from the charcoal burning within: add to +these, the dusky figures of the men and boys employed in the +works, and a stranger will have a scene before him, in which the +“fearsome” is oddly enough blended with the +grotesque.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In the distance, S.W. of the line, appear the Rowley Hills, a +ridge of trap or basaltic rock, which, at the time of its +elevation, upheaved and broke through the coal strata. The +stone being hard and compact, the hills are quarried for paving +flags, &c.</p> +<blockquote><p>“The principal mass of these (trap rocks) +occurs in the southern part of the county, overlying the +coal-field which surrounds the town of Dudley. It there +constitutes the material of a group of hills, beginning on the S. +of that town, and terminating about half-way between Halesowen +and Oldbury, a little beyond the village of Rowley. These +hills consist of very pure basalt, which in the neighbourhood of +Birmingham is called Rowley rag, because the village of Rowley is +situated on one of these basalt hills; and this hill appears to +the eye to be the highest of the whole range. These hills +are all covered with soil; but quarries have been opened in many +of them, and the basalt of which they are composed is employed +for mending the roads. The streets of Birmingham are +likewise paved with it. The columnar structure, though very +frequent, is far from universal in this trap, which very commonly +occurs in large spherical masses, decomposing on the surface into +concentric layers. An amygdaloidal variety containing +calcareous spar and zeolite occurs S. of Dudley. The +highest point of the Rowley Hills is stated by Dr. Thompson to be +900 feet above the Thames at Brentford.”—<span +class="smcap">Conybeare and Phillips’s</span> <i>Geology of +England and Wales</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Passing through a cutting of considerable depth, we arrive +at</p> +<h3><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Willenhall Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +12—Liverpool and Manchester, 85½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Bilston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1½ mile</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bloxwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Sedgley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4¼ miles</p> +</td> +<td><p>Pelsall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Lower Gornal</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5¾ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Himley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> small town of Willenhall, at +the period of the Norman survey, was called <i>Winehala</i>, the +Saxon term for victory, probably from the great battle fought +near it in 311. The village began to flourish in the reign +of Elizabeth, when the iron manufacture was first established +here: at present, it is noted for its collieries and flourishing +trade in locks, and other articles of hardware. Population, +about 5,900.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p22.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Wednesfield Tunnel" +title= +"Wednesfield Tunnel" +src="images/p22.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Nothing of particular interest occurs on either side of the +line, till, in approaching the long Wednesfield tunnel, the +geological traveller will observe the remarkable <a +name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>section +formed by the excavation through the outcropping beds of coal, +which in this part rise at a great angle towards the surface, and +are worked in the neighbourhood by open cuttings. The +complete change which this abrupt ending of the coal-field causes +in the aspect of the country is very singular. On one side +all is black and murky; on the other, green and bright.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The tunnel is 180 yards in length, and the effect of a long +train of carriages passing rapidly under, is novel and grand, nor +less so the appearance of their emerging from the dark archway, +to the expectant spectators at the</p> +<h3>WOLVERHAMPTON STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +14¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 83¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Wolverhampton</span> (Town)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bushbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¾ mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tettenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Wednesfield</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Upper Penn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Codsall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wombourne</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Himley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Trysull</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Pattingham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Albrighton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Donington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>King Swinford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bonningale</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Bridgenorth</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Shiffnal</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> panting and smoking engine, +like a huge beast, rushing along with fiery jaws, and “such +a length of tail behind,” might, in a dark night, be easily +suspected of being “no canny.” Divers kinds of +vehicles, from post-chaises and landaus, to caravans and +<i>omnibii</i> (as a refined friend of ours pluralizes these +universal <a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>conveyances) are in attendance at this station, to +convey passengers to the town of Wolverhampton, one mile distant, +or to their future destination.</p> +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Wolverhampton</span> is a +place of considerable antiquity, and was called Hanton or Hampton +prior to the year 996, when Wulfrana, sister of King Edgar, and +widow of Aldhelm, Duke of Northampton, founded a college here, +endowing it with so many privileges that the town was called in +her honour, <i>Wulfranis Hampton</i>, of which its present name +is evidently a corruption. The College continued till the +year 1200, when Petrus Blesensis, who was then dean, after +fruitless attempts to reform the dissolute lives of the brethren, +surrendered the establishment to Hubert, archbishop of +Canterbury, and it was subsequently annexed to the deanery of +Windsor. In 1590, the greater part of the town was +destroyed by a fire, which continued burning for five days. +In the parliamentary war, Wolverhampton aided the royalists, and +Prince Rupert fixed his head-quarters here, while the king was +encamped at Bushbury.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The town is situated on an eminence, on the N.W. side of the +great midland coal-district, and the neighbourhood abounds with +iron, coal, and limestone. The manufacture of locks, forms +here as in the other towns in the vicinity, the staple trade, to +which may be added, smith’s and carpenter’s tools, +machinery of all kinds, furnishing ironmongery, &c. The +modern streets are well-built and lighted, and contain many +handsome and substantial houses. A public Subscription +Library and News-room, occupy the lower part of a commodious +building, in which, assemblies and concerts are likewise +held. A Literary and Philosophical Society is established, +but not yet supported in a manner at all proportioned to its +merits; a circumstance not reflecting much honour on the +professedly intelligent <a name="page25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span>and “higher” classes of +the inhabitants. The Mechanics’ Institution is in a +more flourishing condition, for obvious reasons, being patronized +by the more knowledge-loving part of the community. The +Theatre is opened occasionally; it is a small and unpretending +structure. Races are annually held in August, in an +extensive area near the town, and are well attended. In the +centre of the market-place stands a cast-iron column, forty-five +feet high, surmounted by a large gas lantern, which was intended +by its sanguine projector to enlighten the whole town and +suburbs, but, alas for the great designs of short-sighted +humanity!—its sphere of usefulness is unfortunately +restricted to the attic and chamber windows of the houses +immediately contiguous.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The Collegiate Church is an ancient and exceedingly beautiful +cruciform structure, in the early decorated style of +architecture, with a handsome square embattled tower rising from +the centre. It contains a curious and elaborately-carved +stone pulpit, formed of one entire block, an ancient font, and +several interesting monuments. In the church-yard is a +column, twenty feet high, greatly enriched with sculpture of +various designs, supposed to be of either Saxon or Danish +origin. There are several other churches in Wolverhampton, +and many religious establishments belonging to various sects of +dissenters; also a Free Grammar School, Blue Coat Charity, +National, Sunday, and other Schools. The population of +Wolverhampton is about 25,000; it has a market on Wednesday, and +a fair on July 10.</p> +<h2><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>CHAPTER III.<br /> +WOLVERHAMPTON TO STAFFORD,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Fifteen Miles.</span></h2> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p26.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Bushbury Hill and Church" +title= +"Bushbury Hill and Church" +src="images/p26.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> quitting the station at +Wolverhampton a good view is obtained of the town and fine old +Church, with the hills of Rowley Regis in the distance. +Tettenhall Wood and the Clee Hills soon add to the beauty of the +southward view; and the line is skirted by fine trees and fresh +verdant meadows, over which a peep of the distant landscape is +gained at intervals. Show Hill, and Low Hill houses are +pleasantly situated on the ridge of a hill to the E., and beyond +them appears Bushbury Hill, a point of the same elevation, with +its old village <a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>Church, built about 1460; this is perhaps the most +pleasing part of the line we have yet traversed. The Wrekin +appears in the distance to the W., and nearer, the lofty and +tapering spire of Brewood (or Brood) Church, rises from its +girdling woods. Moseley Court, the ancient seat of J. G. +Whitgreave, Esq., lies E. of the line, whence but little of the +house is visible, being surrounded by stately oak groves. +In this venerable mansion, Charles II. was temporarily concealed, +when on his way to Bentley. Wrottesley Park, seat of Sir +John Wrottesley, Bart., Chillington Park and Hall, the noble +residence of T. W. Giffard, Esq., and the village of Codsall, +form portions of the scenery to the S.W. All this part of +the line from Wolverhampton is on an embankment, which, however, +does not exceed fifteen feet at the highest point. On the +E. appears Hilton Park, seat of H. E. C. V. Graham, Esq., and on +the W., Pendeford Hall. The villages of Shareshill and +Featherstone, lie E. of the line. A bridge here crosses it, +bearing the felicitous name of “Paradise;” happy +mortals, to reach such blessed bourne! But our stay is +brief indeed; Paradise is left far behind, and we pass onwards +under and over many a bridge of great and small degree; for the +railroad even renders a common dirty gutter, a thing of so great +importance, that a stately and ponderous arch must be erected for +its insignificant accommodation! Verily, we grow +aristocratic in our indignation at such upstart doings. The +honourable fraternity of Ditch, Gutter, and Co., may, with a good +grace, quote the old fable, and exclaim, “How we apples +swim;” they are marvellously promoted since “an +hundred years ago.” <a name="page28"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 28</span>The Stafford Canal passes under, and +the railroad over, a handsome iron bridge, between the village of +Coven on the W., and Aspley on the E. side of the line.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The wide moorland called Cannock Chase, lies E., and is for +some distance seen from the line. It was in earlier times, +a forest or chase belonging to the Mercian kings. In one +part, Castle Hill, now enclosed by the boundary of Beaudesert +Park, seat of the Marquis of Anglesea, is an ancient British +encampment, surrounded by a double trench, occupying about +fourteen acres. Near it are the remains of a moat, +enclosing an oblong square of three acres, called the Old +Nunnery, where a Cistercian Abbey was founded in the reign of +Stephen, which was shortly after removed to Stoneleigh, in +Warwickshire. Cannock Chase, or Heath, contains upwards of +25,000 acres; in some parts, containing extensive sheep +walks.</p> +<h3>Four Ashes Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +20—Liverpool and Manchester, 77½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Place W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Place E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Brewood</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Shareshill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¾ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">If</span> the reader be a passenger in a +mixed train, the diminished speed will here allow him a better +chance of observation; and a fine view may be enjoyed on the +eastward, of Cannock Chase, with its undulating scenery; and +westward, Summerford Park, seat of the Hon. E. Monkton, the +little town of Brewood, and the Wrekin. Passing on, nothing +of interest occurs until the arrival at the next, the</p> +<h3><a name="page29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 29</span>Spread +Eagle Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +21½—Liverpool and Manchester, 76 miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Stretton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Cannock</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lapley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Norton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¼ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wheaton Aston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Weston-under-Lizzard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Blymhill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tong</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Sheriff Hales</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woodcote</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Shiffnal</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Wellington</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Shrewsbury</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">29 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> the railroad crosses the old +Roman road called Watling-street; the ancient prætorian +highway, reaching from Dover, by St. Albans, Dunstable, +Towcester, Atherstone, Shrewsbury, &c., to Cardigan; in many +places it is scarcely perceptible, while in others it continues +firm for several miles. And who can pass such a junction of +roads, without a backward glance at past years and events? +without a thought of the thousand “changes of time and +tide” that this ancient track has witnessed: the millions +of human footsteps it has received:—the proud and +victorious Roman, exulting in his country’s greatness and +conquests, and contemptuously spurning the savage natives, whose +natural rights he invaded:—the rapacious and desolating +Dane:—the wily Saxon:—the adventurous Norman: and now +the compound people, we English, who, not content with the ways +of our fathers, must needs cross them with our refined and +scientific innovations. In sooth, this ancient road were a +fitter subject for an epic poem, than a guide-book gossip.</p> +<p><a name="page30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 30</span>Passing +the Spread Eagle station, the villages of Water Eaton and +Stretton, are seen on the W., and Rodbaston Hall, with Cannock +Chase behind, on the E. The turnpike road here runs +parallel with the line for some distance. At Quarry Bridge, +a short distance from Penkridge, is a fine quarry of red +sandstone, which has furnished a handsome material for several +bridges in the vicinity. From hence the church of +Penkridge, and the next arch over the line, forms an interesting +picture, to which the near arch of Quarry Bridge serves as +framework.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p30.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Penkridge Church from Quarry Bridge" +title= +"Penkridge Church from Quarry Bridge" +src="images/p30.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The church is shortly after passed, on the E., and arriving at +the bridge over the river Penk, a lovely view of the surrounding +scenery presents itself. The river appears on both sides, +winding gracefully along, between meadows and groves; on the E. +is <a name="page31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 31</span>the Old +Bridge, beyond which appears Teddesley Park and Hall, the seat of +Lord Hatherton, with our old friend Cannock Chase in the +distance. Westward the eye ranges over the near objects to +Preston Hill and Longridge, altogether forming a delightful +prospect.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p31.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Penkridge" +title= +"Penkridge" +src="images/p31.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>Penkridge Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +24—Liverpool and Manchester, 73½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bradley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3¾ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Dunstan</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¼ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church Eaton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5¼ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Acton Trussel</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Bednall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Cannock</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Rugeley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Armitage</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Malvesyn Ridware</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Longdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Penkridge</span> is supposed +by Camden to have been the Roman Pennocrucium; its modern name +seems derivable from the river Penk, on which it stands.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The town, from its low situation, is liable to frequent +inundations. It has no market-day, but two great cattle +fairs are held here, on April 30, and first Monday in +September. The Church was made collegiate by King +John. Penkridge contains about 3,000 inhabitants. +Quitting Penkridge, the villages of Thickerscote and Silkmoor +appear in the distance; and shortly after leaving Acton Trussel +to the E., and Levedale on the W., Dunstan Church, appears above +the bank of the railway, on the E. The next object of +interest is Stafford Castle, the tower of which is seen just +before arriving at</p> +<h3><a name="page32"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +32</span>STAFFORD STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +29¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 68¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Castlechurch</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Baswick or Berkswick</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1½ mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coppenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Marston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3¼ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Houghton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tixall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gnosnal</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Ingestre</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Newport</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Weston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Sandon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Gayton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Stowe</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Colwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Milwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Fradswell</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Hilderston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Rugeley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Gratwich</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Abbots Bromley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Uttoxeter</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Lichfield</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p><span class="smcap">Stafford</span> is a borough +and market town; contains 8,512 inhabitants. This place, +which is of great antiquity, was anciently called +<i>Stadeford</i>, from the Saxon Stade, signifying a place on a +river, and the <i>trajectus</i>, or ford, across the river Sow, +on which it is pleasantly situated, about six miles from its +confluence with the Trent.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The entrance from the London road, is by a neat bridge over +the river, near which was one of the ancient gates. The +houses are in general well-built, and many of them are handsome +and modern erections; the streets well paved, and the environs of +the town abound with elegant mansions and villas. +Assemblies are held in a suite of rooms in the Town Hall, and +races take place annually in May. The chief branch of +manufacture is that of shoes, and the tanning of leather is +carried on to a considerable extent. Stafford is also +renowned for its ale, in common with the surrounding +neighbourhood. The market is held on Saturday, and fairs on +April 5, May 14, June 25, October 3, and December 5.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p33.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Stafford Castle" +title= +"Stafford Castle" +src="images/p33.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p><a name="page33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>From +the year 700, this place has been gradually acquiring importance, +and castles have been built and rebuilt by successive princes and +possessors. In 705, it is said to have been the residence +of the pious St. Bertalin, son of a Mercian king, and we may well +imagine a <i>royal</i> hermitage to have formed an attractive +nucleus for a future city. Ethelfleda, Countess of Mercia, +erected a castle here in 913, and fortified the town with walls +and a fosse. It appears to have increased greatly in extent +and importance, and is in Doomsday Book called a city, in which +the king had eighteen burgesses in demesne, and the Earl of +Mercia twenty mansions. William the Conqueror built a +castle here, to keep the barons in subjection, and appointed as +governor, Robert de Toeni, the progenitor of the house of +Stafford. It was rebuilt in the reign of Edward III., and +in the parliamentary war was garrisoned for the king, but taken +by the parliamentary troops, and finally demolished. The +lover of picturesque relics of the olden time, must regret the +utter destruction of this, and many other strong holds; but the +knowledge, that the iron-handed tyranny upheld by these feudal +dens, is for ever gone by with their departed strength, is a +glorious and surpassing compensation. Where would be our +railroads, if moss-trooping barons and slavish serfs formed, as +they once did, the population of England?</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The castellated building which now forms so prominent a +feature in the landscape on approaching Stafford, is a modern +erection, on the ancient site, commenced by Lord Stafford, (then +Sir George Jerningham); <a name="page34"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 34</span>only one front, flanked by two round +towers was completed; these now contain some ancient armour and +other curiosities. The County Hall is a spacious and +handsome building of stone, occupying one side of the +Market-place. The County Gaol is also a large and modern +erection, well adapted for the classification of prisoners, who +are employed at their trades, and receive a certain portion of +their earnings on discharge.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The Church, dedicated to St. Mary, formerly collegiate, is an +ancient and spacious cruciform structure, in the early style of +English architecture, with a lofty octagonal tower rising from +the intersection. The north entrance is richly ornamented, +and the interior beautifully arranged, the piers and arches are +of the early English, passing into the decorated style. The +east window is an elegant specimen of the later English. In +the north transept is an ancient font of great beauty, highly +ornamented with sculptured figures and animals. There are +many ancient monuments; amongst the most conspicuous, are those +of the family of Aston, of Tixall. There are two other +Churches, one, St. Chadd’s, originally in the Norman style, +but much and incongruously altered; also, places of worship for +the Society of Friends, Independents, Wesleyan Methodists, and +Roman Catholics. The Free Grammar School was refounded by +Edward VI.; there are also National and other Schools, and a +variety of Public Institutions, among which the Infirmary, and +Lunatic Asylum are the chief.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In olden times, a Priory of Black Canons existed <a +name="page35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 35</span>here, founded +in 1151; a small part of whose ruined abode remains, in the shape +of a farm house, two miles east of the town. There were +likewise, a House of Friars Eremites; a Priory of Franciscan +Friars, and other monastic establishments, all dismantled at the +dissolution. The most celebrated native of Stafford, is +Isaac Walton, the angler, a name well-beloved by all votaries of +the (so called) “<i>gentle</i> sport,” though there +are and have been many who rather think with the Poet, that</p> +<blockquote><p>“The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his +gullet<br /> +Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.”</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Byron</span>.</p> +</blockquote> +<h2><a name="page36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +36</span>CHAPTER IV.<br /> +STAFFORD TO WHITMORE,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Fourteen Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">In</span> leaving Stafford station, the +Castle appears to the W. and the Town, E. of the line. +Beacon Hill is seen immediately over the latter. On +proceeding a short distance through a flat country, the little +village of Aston is passed on the W., and Creswell Hall, (Rev. T. +Whitley,) on the E., which, encompassed by richly wooded grounds, +and overlooking the meanderings of the little river Sow, forms a +fine object in the general landscape. The house is a plain, +neat structure. Much of the ground here is marshy, and +abounds with willows, whose light silvery foliage agreeably +diversifies the meadow and woodland scenery; amid which, on the +W., peeps the pretty tower of Seighford Church.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Passing two successive cuttings of no great depth, and through +a marshy district adorned by poplar and willow trees, we arrive +at</p> +<h3>Bridgeford Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +32¾—Liverpool and Manchester, 64¾ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Seighford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ranton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¾ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ellenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 37</span>On the +E. is Bridgeford Hall, the estate of J. Reynolds, Esq., formerly +a Convent. Some remains of the ancient buildings still +exist in different parts of the hall and garden.</p> +<blockquote><p>A story of a subterranean passage also belongs to +this relic of olden times, which passage, says tradition, leads +to Ellenhall, about two miles distant; and we have been told that +in digging a well a few years since the passage was +discovered.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A picturesque Mill stands near the Hall. Passing Chebsey +W., and Whitgreave on the E., we reach Shallowford, where a few +scattered cottages represent the honours of the Village, and the +Sow, which almost emulates the winding propensities of the fair +river Wye, meanders quietly among the meadows. At +Shallowford Bridge, which is chiefly built for the convenience of +farmers, whose cattle and teams are constantly traversing it, a +person is generally stationed with a red flag to give a signal +for trains to slacken their speed at this part, if cattle are +passing at the time.</p> +<p>A pleasant but not very interesting portion of the line brings +us to</p> +<h3>Norton Bridge Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +35—Liverpool and Manchester, 62½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chebsey</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¼ mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Stone</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Eccleshall</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Swinnerton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Standon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hilderston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¼ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>High Oftley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barlaston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Adbaston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fulford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cheswardine</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Trentham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Hinstock</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Draycott</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Lane End</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Cheadle</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<blockquote><p><a name="page38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +38</span><span class="smcap">Two</span> miles and a half W. of +this station lies the small town of Eccleshall, which at the time +of the Conquest belonged to the See of Lichfield. In 1200, +Bishop Muschamp obtained a licence from King John, to embattle +the episcopal residence; which was much repaired, or rebuilt, by +Bishop Langton in 1310. During the parliamentary war it was +so much damaged in a siege, previously to being taken by the +parliamentarians, as to be unfit for the further residence of the +church-militant commanders-in-chief, until Bishop Lloyd rebuilt +it in 1695; since which time it has continued to be the episcopal +palace of the See of Lichfield and Coventry. The grounds +and woods belonging to the palace are pleasant and +extensive. The church was the sanctuary of Queen Margaret, +after Lord Audley’s defeat by the Earl of Salisbury, at +Blore Heath. It is a spacious structure, in the ancient +English style of architecture, and contains several +monuments.</p> +<p>The town of Stone lies three miles E. of the line, and is not +seen from it; the name is traditionally derived from a monumental +heap of stones, which, according to the custom of the Saxons had +been placed over the bodies of the princes Wulford and Rufinus, +who were here slain by their father king Wulphere, on account of +their conversion to Christianity. [<i>See page</i> 20.] The +king himself becoming subsequently a convert, founded, in 670, a +college of Secular Canons, dedicating it to his children, in +expiation of his crime: and to this establishment the town is +supposed to owe its origin. The prevailing manufacture is +that of shoes. Population, 7,808.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Although none of the towns in the great district called the +Potteries, are upon or even seen from the line of route, yet they +lie so near, that it would scarcely be well to omit all mention +of this great manufacturing neighbourhood, which encloses about +ten square miles of country, covered with scattered villages, and +containing about 20,000 inhabitants. Although the making of +articles of pottery has been carried on here from a remote +period, yet the manufacture was of inferior <a +name="page39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 39</span>importance, +until the great improvements effected by Mr. Wedgewood in the +latter part of the last century; since which time the excellence +and beauty of the wares, have produced a most extensive traffic +both in England and abroad. The exports of earthenware and +china to the United States alone, amount to 60,000 packages +annually. The several species of ware invented by Mr. +Wedgewood, varied by the industry and ingenuity of the +manufacturers into an infinity of forms, and differently painted +and embellished, constitute nearly the whole of the fine +earthenwares at present manufactured in England, which are the +object of a very extensive trade. The chief towns and +villages in the Pottery district are, Stoke-upon-Trent, Hanley, +Burslem, Lane End, Shelton, Etruria, Tunstall, Lane Delph, and +others.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Proceeding from Norton Bridge, through some pretty, +common-place country, we pass Baddenhall, Field Cross, and +Brockton-house on the W., and Coldmese on the E., and soon gain a +view of Swinnerton Park and Hall, seat of T. Fitzherbert, Esq., +which, with the small grove-like woods scattered through the +landscape, forms, as the quaint Dugdale would say, “a verye +faire prospect.” The next small representation of a +village is Mill Meese, with its old Hall standing close beside +the line; the water-mill wheel, formerly accustomed to have no +rival sound interrupt its rumbling, splashing solo, now seems +wofully outdone by the rapidly rolling trains, and lifts up its +unheard voice in vain. The river Sow still flows close to +the line. Westward lie the villages of Walford and Aspley, +<a name="page40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 40</span>but too +much concealed by wood to be discovered in passing. +Trentham Park, seat of the Marquis of Sutherland, is perceived on +the N.E. The mansion is a modern structure; the surrounding +grounds are very extensive, abound with fine timber, and greatly +adorned by lakes, formed by the river Trent, which flows through +the park.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Standon Church, with the richly wooded country round, forms a +pleasing object W. of the line.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p40.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Standon Church" +title= +"Standon Church" +src="images/p40.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Passing on, another Swinnerton Park appears on the E., there +being two of that name. Hill Chorlton and Chapel Chorlton, +with the picturesque church tower of the latter, appears W. of +the traveller. A short distance of pretty wooded scenery +intervenes, and then <a name="page41"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 41</span>a shallow cutting, passing which, +Maer Wood is seen on the W. Maer Hall, seat of J. +Wedgewood, Esq.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Shortly after, the line enters a deep cutting, which ends +at</p> +<h3>WHITMORE STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +43¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 54¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Maer</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¾ mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Newcastle-under-Lyme</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chapel Chorlton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Trentham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ashley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Wolstanton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Standon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Shelton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Broughton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Stoke</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mucklestone or Muxton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Burslem</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Hanley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Market Drayton</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tunstall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Lane End</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Norton-on-the-Moor</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Leek</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h2><a name="page42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +42</span>CHAPTER V.<br /> +WHITMORE TO CREWE,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Ten and ¾ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">An</span> extensive heathy bog is +traversed by the line, after leaving Whitmore station, and, as we +have heard an ancient tradition anent it, will tell the tale for +the edification of our readers, “extenuating +nothing.”</p> +<blockquote><p>Once upon a time there was a large forest in this +part, and when the Romans were amusing themselves with hunting +our worthy ancestors, a large body of the ancient Britons took +refuge therein. In order to come at them these terrible +Romans set fire to the forest, which burnt in a very fearful and +dreadful manner; but our information does not extend to the exact +measure of scorching endured by the miserable prisoners within +this fiery fence, or whether they escaped by flight, or were +consumed wholesale in the burning forest, which, with the +accumulation of vegetable matter during past ages, has formed the +bog, now “passed with the swiftness of +tornado-blast,” by “Wildfires” and +“Rockets.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Opposite the Bog-house is one of the highest points of the +line, the road inclining towards Liverpool one way, and towards +Birmingham the other. Snape Hall is prettily situated among +rich woods on the E. of the line; and a short distance farther +Barr Hill appears on the W. It is a considerable elevation, +and on a clear day, Liverpool may be seen from it. Madeley +Parks <a name="page43"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 43</span>and +Manor House lie W. of the line. The latter is the seat of +Lady Cunliffe, daughter of Lord Crewe, to whose family, the +adjoining land, formerly a fine deer park, anciently +belonged. Hay House, a small, old, brick building, stands +close to the line of railway on the E. One cannot help +feeling an odd sort of commiseration for these ancient abodes of +the last generation, which have stood, and grown old and grey, in +the once quiet and out-of-the-world nooks where the convenience +of the farmer, or the retired taste of the small country squire, +had located them; and now, to see the iron ribs of the innovating +railroad carried up to their very threshold, has something of +sadness in it, even in the midst of our modern pride and +gratulation. It is like pert youth, exhibiting and vaunting +of its strength and valorous deeds, to decrepid and helpless +age. But what have we to do with such dreams? +“Locomotives” wait for no man’s fancies, and we +must e’en follow their course. Soon after passing +which, we reach</p> +<h3>Madeley Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +46—Liverpool and Manchester, 51½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woore</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Betley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Newcastle</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mucklestone or Muxton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Audlem</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Adderley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Burley Dam</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Whitchurch</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> village, which is rather +eastward of the line, consists chiefly of cottages and farm +houses in the <a name="page44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +44</span>Elizabethan style. The Church is an ancient and +interesting structure, with a fine set of bells. An +eccentric, named Samuel Stretch, noted for his penurious habits, +bequeathed, in 1804, a great bell, to be tolled every night at +eight o’clock, as a guide to persons wandering about at +such late and improper hours; he having accidently fallen into a +ditch, the consequences of which disaster eventually caused his +death. The small town of Woore lies three miles W. +Passing several slight cuttings, and again gaining the open +country, a fine prospect appears, including Checkley Wood, +Doddington Park, on the W., Heighley Castle on the E., and the +Welsh Hills in the distance. Doddington Hall, seat of +Lieut. Gen. Sir John Delves Broughton, Bart., is a splendid +mansion of comparatively modern erection. A fortified house +was erected here in 1364, by Sir John Delves, the venerable ruins +of which still remain. The park is finely wooded, and +includes a very noble avenue of ancient oaks. Heighley +Castle partakes the traditionary honour so lavishly bestowed on +such places, of having been “battered down” by +Cromwell. It has been said, “no man can be in two +places at once, unless he be a <i>bird</i>.” And our +renowned Oliver must needs have been wonderfully endowed with +this ornithological ubiquity, if we are to allow a shade of +credence to the countless and unaccountable stories of his sieges +in <i>propria personá</i>. A lofty embankment and +two viaducts carry the line through the pretty valley of +Wrinehill; the Hall and Mill forming very pleasing objects in the +scene. The line here enters Cheshire. Betley and +Betley Mere form the next view, after emerging from a short +excavation, called <a name="page45"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +45</span>Bunker’s Hill. Betley Court, the residence +of J. Twemlow, Esq., with its surrounding woods and fields, and +the pretty mere or lakelet in front, afford a very pleasing +view.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In the rear distance, S.E., is a fine view of Boond Hill and +Mow Copp, on the round summit of the latter is a stone monument, +distinctly seen. These hills, which lie at a considerable +distance, join in the landscape for some space. Chorlton is +the first village we pass in Cheshire, and Wybunbury, a place of +much more importance, is concealed by the woods about the former, +except the Church, which peers above them. This Church was +rebuilt in 1595; it is a spacious structure, with carved wooden +ceilings, and a lofty pinnacled tower, which leaned so much to +the N.E., that a few years since it was found requisite to place +it erect, when some alterations were made in the body of the +Church. To the W. is Basford Hall, soon after passing +which, we arrive at</p> +<h3>Basford Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +52—Liverpool and Manchester, 45½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Place E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Hough</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">½ mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Betley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wybunbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¼ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barthomley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Walgherton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Audley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Doddington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Alsager</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Nantwich</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Talk</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Audlem</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Church Lawton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Burley Dam</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baddiley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wrenbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Crewe Hall</span>, the mansion of Lord +Crewe, which <a name="page46"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +46</span>appears E. of the line, is a large and handsome +quadrangular structure of red brick, surrounded by finely +undulating grounds, and a lake of considerable extent.</p> +<h3>CREWE STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +54—Liverpool and Manchester, 43½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Nantwich</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Haslington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Acton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5¼ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Sandbach</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Baddiley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Astbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wrenbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Congleton</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Malpas</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Gawsworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Macclesfield</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Nantwich</span>, four miles W. of Crewe, +contains 5,350 inhabitants, and has a market on Saturdays, and +fairs, chiefly for cattle, on March 26, second Tuesday in June, +September 4, and December 4.</p> +<blockquote><p>Previously to the Conquest, the wealth of this +place consisted in its numerous brine springs. Its origin +is attributed to the Britons; and its name appears to be derived +from the British word <i>Nant</i>, a brook or marsh, and the +Saxon <i>vic</i>, by corruption <i>wich</i>, a vill, or +settlement. The latter term seems generally attached to the +names of towns where salt is made. This town has had its +full share of plague, pestilence, and war, in times past, and +twice suffered greatly from fire, in the years 1438 and +1583. During the civil war it staunchly supported the +parliament.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The town is situated on the banks of the river Weaver, in a +level and fertile tract of country. Most of the houses are +of timber and brick, covered with plaster, with projecting +stories, and large bay-windows. There is a small Theatre +and Assembly-room. In the time of Henry VIII., there were +three hundred salt <a name="page47"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +47</span>works; this number has been gradually reduced, in +consequence of superior mines and springs being discovered +elsewhere, and now only one spring remains. Shoes, gloves, +and cotton goods are the chief manufactures now, and cheese the +principal agricultural produce. The Church is a spacious +and venerable structure, in the decorated and later English +styles, comprising a nave, with lateral aisles, a chancel, +transepts, and an ornamented octagonal tower, rising from the +intersection. There are Meetings and Chapels for +Dissenters, and various Schools. John Gerarde, whose fine +old work, called Gerarde’s Herbal, is familiar to every +botanist, was a native of Nantwich, born in 1545.</p> +<h2><a name="page48"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +48</span>CHAPTER VI.<br /> +CREWE TO HARTFORD,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Eleven and ¾ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Quitting</span> the Crewe station, around +which is little to attract the traveller’s notice, the line +proceeds nearly without a curve, and for some distance enables +the passengers of one train, to observe the approach of +another. A branch railway is in progress from Crewe, to +Manchester on one side, and to Chester on the other. The +tower of Coppenhall Church is the first object on the W. +This Church is an old wood and plaster structure, of the style +prevalent in the reign of Elizabeth, and looking almost as if +modern times had forgotten it, so quaint and old it is.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Passing the Church and Village, we arrive at</p> +<h3>Coppenhall Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +56—Liverpool and Manchester, 41½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Minshull Moss</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Coppenhall Moss</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lea Green</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Warmingham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Leighton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Sandbach</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church Minshull</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Worleston Green</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Acton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page49"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 49</span><span +class="smcap">The</span> country near the line in this part +becomes flat, boggy, and uninteresting; for though an ancient +moss is a scene of uncloying interest to a naturalist, and +contains many a treasure to reward the patient seeking of the +botanist; yet, in the cursory glance of a railroad traveller, its +sombre, and, as he perhaps thinks, unprofitable waste, is a scene +gladly exchanged for verdant pastures and waving corn +fields. Here is a whole family of mosses, all lying closely +contiguous, and quaking under the foot of the pedestrian wanderer +among their heathy labyrinths, “like a great jelly +bag,” as the graphic authoress of “Wood +Leighton,” that most graceful, good, and womanly book, +quaintly describes a like spot. Coppenhall Moss, Leighton +Moss, Warmington Moss, and, for aught we know, half a score more, +compose the near view, with the welcome variety afforded by +Warmingham Wood in the distance.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The towns of Sandbach and Congleton lie on the E., but are not +seen from the line. The former contains about 7,200 +inhabitants. The market is on Thursday, and fairs on Easter +Tuesday and Wednesday, and the first Thursday after September 11; +and a cattle and pleasure fair on December 27, for cattle and +wearing apparel. In the market-place are some ancient +crosses, repaired in 1816. The church is in the later +English style. There are Dissenting Chapels, and several +Schools. Congleton contains 9,352 individuals. It is +an ancient place, and is called <i>Cogletone</i> in Doomsday +Book, but its origin has not been clearly ascertained. The +town is situated in a valley, embosomed in richly wooded hills: +the eastern part is old and <a name="page50"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 50</span>irregularly built; the western is +modern. In the environs, especially on the banks of the +river, are many elegant mansions and villas. The market is +on Saturday; the fairs on the Thursday before Shrovetide, May 12, +July 12, and December 22. The Market-house, containing a +handsome Assembly-room, was built in 1822, at the sole expense of +Sir E. Antrobus, Bart.</p> +<h3>Minshull Vernon Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +58¾—Liverpool and Manchester, 38¾ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Church Minshull</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Warmingham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2½ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bunbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6¾ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Sandbach</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tattenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Harthill</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> the scenery becomes more +interesting, from the distant view afforded on the W. of Beeston +Castle Hill, and the high lands in Cheshire and Wales.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p50.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Beeston Hill" +title= +"Beeston Hill" +src="images/p50.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p><a name="page51"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +51</span>Beeston Castle was founded by Ranulph de Blundeville, +about 1220, and was made a royal garrison, in the war between +Henry III., and the confederate Barons. In 1643, Beeston +Castle was held by a detachment of the Parliamentarian forces, +then taken by the Royalists, who were, after a long siege in +1645, compelled, from want of provisions, to surrender it; and +the Parliamentarians dismantled it early the following +year. The ruins consist of part of a tower which guarded +the principal entrance to the inner court, flanked by +semi-circular bastions, and surrounded by a moat, excavated in +the solid rock. The outer walls were defended by eight +round towers, irregularly placed, and are now covered with +ivy.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>On the N.W. appears Delamere Forest, which continues to form +part of the railroad prospect for some space. This tract, +which includes the ancient and royal forest of Delamere, was +uninclosed till 1812, when it was erected into a parish by act of +parliament. It was formerly a dreary waste, but is now +rapidly improving in fertility and increased population. On +its enclosure, it first gave the title of Baron Delamere of Vale +Royal, to Thomas Cholmondeley, Esq., the proprietor of the +ancient possessions of the Cistercian monks of Vale Royal, whose +sumptuous Abbey was completed in 1330, by Edward I., and cost +£32,000. There are races in March, called the +Tanfield Hunt.</p> +<blockquote><p>Delamere Forest, comprising about 10,000 acres, +once contained a great number of red and fallow deer: it exhibits +a pleasing variety of well-wooded hills, rich valleys for +pasturage, waters affording plenty of fish and water-fowl; and +mosses, producing an abundance of peat and turf for fuel. +Upon the highest hill stood the Saxon fortress of Finborrow, and +near it the city of Eadesbury, both of which are said to have +been founded by Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great. +The ancient residence of the Chief Forester is all that now +remains; this house is called the <a name="page52"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 52</span>Chamber of the Forest; and at +convenient distances around it are neat lodges for the keepers of +the several walks. Five thousand acres of the forest have +been planted with forest trees within the last twenty +years. The remaining portion is sold or allotted to private +individuals.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Journeying on, we pass Lea Hall, a plain, old-fashioned +building, close to the line, and can just perceive Over Church +above the trees; this part of the line being more clothed with +wood than that we have recently described. Here the +Middlewich Canal is crossed, and is seen on the E., in which +direction, two miles from the line, lies the town of Middlewich, +containing about 4,800 inhabitants, with a market on Thursday, +and fairs on Holy Thursday, Aug. 25, and Oct. 29. The name +of this town is derived from its central situation with respect +to the Wiches, or Salt Towns. A Roman station is supposed +to have existed here, from the remains of a Roman road, and an +intrenched camp. The Royalists were defeated here during +the civil war, and the same fortune befel the Parliamentarian +forces subsequently. The town is divided by the Grand Trunk +Canal, here crossed by the river Dane; and the rivers Weyer, +Croco, and Whelock, also run through the parish. The chief +trade consists in salt obtained from powerful brine-springs: +there are also some silk manufactories. The church, being +built at various periods, presents an assemblage of different +styles of architecture: it has a handsome tower. Here are +also dissenting meetings, and a free school, which, like many +like establishments, fulfils, but in a very limited degree, the +intentions of its founders. Delamere Forest and Over Church +again form the westerly view.</p> +<p><a name="page53"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 53</span>The +small straggling town of Over lies about a mile W. of the line; +it contains 2,930 inhabitants; has no market, but fairs on May 15 +and Sept. 25. The church was re-built in 1543, by +Hugh Starkey, Gentleman Usher to Henry VIII., in the later +English style of architecture. An effigy of brass in the +interior of the church, perpetuates the memory of the pious Hugh; +a curious font, and some other antiquities, may also be +seen. Salt is the chief manufacture. In the extreme +distance on the S.E., a clear day allows a tolerable view of the +Derbyshire hills from this part of the line; Stanthorne Hall, +seat of Richard Dutton, Esq., also E., is passed immediately +before reaching the</p> +<h3>Winsford Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +61¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 36¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Over</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Middlewich</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Little Budworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5¼ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Brereton cum Smethwick</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Tarporley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Swettenham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Waverton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Nether Alderley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Bostock Hall</span>, seat of James France +France, Esq., and Wharton, <i>would</i> be seen E. from the +railroad after leaving the station, but that the line enters a +shallow cutting; the banks of which hide the view “just at +the very time when they should not.” An opening gives +a glimpse of the woods about the house, and that is all. +The next peep is westward again, at Moulson: and after passing +another cutting (this word <i>cutting</i> is an inelegant term, +which does not fall into our prose with ease; but we cannot avoid +it, belonging, as it <a name="page54"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 54</span>does, to railroad phraseology) we +gain a view of Vale Royal Park and New Park on the W., the +pleasant woodland glades of which are soon shut out by another +cutting which takes us through Eaton, and by Eaton Hall, seat of +Sir E. Antrobus. We now approach one of the most +magnificent parts of the railway, and of the scenery skirting it; +the Vale Royal Viaduct, over which the line passes for five +hundred feet, and beneath which the river Weaver winds through +the vale in graceful sweeps, girt with verdant meadows; on the E. +it is crossed by the simple old bridge, now looking very humble, +in the presence of its magnificent neighbour. The viaduct +consists of five arches of immense span, it is built of a reddish +stone, and is a noble erection. The traveller will do well +to be alert and on the “look out” in this part, or +the view will escape him. Westward lies Vale Royal Park, +rich in the grandeur of its ancient woods, and nearly hidden +among them is Delamere Abbey, the old and venerable seat of Lord +Delamere. Little remains now of the ancient building, which +was not, as described by Warton in his Elegy, seen “high +o’er the trackless heath,” but was seated in a deep +valley on the banks of the river Weaver. The present +mansion consists of a centre and two wings of red stone. +The great hall is a magnificent apartment.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p55.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Vale Royal Viaduct" +title= +"Vale Royal Viaduct" +src="images/p55.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p>The marvellous enlightenment of the 19th century, +great as we deem it, has not yet penetrated those holes and +corners of prejudice and credulity, which serve for the hiding +places of superstition, for even in the eye of the Railroad +itself are those living who speak with awe of the so-called +prophecies, said to be made by the poor driveller Robert Nixon, +the Cheshire sage. It so happens, very <a +name="page55"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 55</span>oddly, that +predictions are sometimes remembered <i>when</i> verified, and +not before. So was the curious and very oracular one of the +past year, so often quoted,—</p> +<p>“A summer without a spring,<br /> +And an autumn without a king,”</p> +<p>which no one can deny was very remarkable indeed—only it +was too disloyal to be circulated till certainty had secured its +truth. Poor Nixon wishing, doubtlessly, to compliment his +patrons, the Cholmondeley family, with a +“May-the-king-live-for-ever” kind of benediction, +promised that till certain stones or rocks near Warrington came +to Vale Royal, the prosperity of their family should +continue. Unluckily, stones have grown locomotive of late, +and “Birnam Wood doth come to Dunsinane,” for the +fatal rocks have become part of the grand viaduct, which, far +from bringing ill to the noble Delamere, is a link in the mighty +chain now weaving, which shall bind together art, science, +talent, wealth, and greatness, for the good of all who are so +blessed as to live in the age of <span +class="GutSmall">RAILROADS.</span></p> +</blockquote> +<p>The line passes through a deep cutting before arriving at +the</p> +<h3>HARTFORD STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +65¾—Liverpool and Manchester, 31¾ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newchurch</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¼ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Davenham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1½ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Little Budworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Northwich</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Tarporley</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Budworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tarvin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10 —</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Nether Knutsford</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Great Barrow</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rostherne</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Guilden Sutton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mobberley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Waverton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Wilmslow</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Christleton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Chester</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">16 —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h2><a name="page56"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +56</span>CHAPTER VII.<br /> +HARTFORD TO WARRINGTON,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Twelve and ¼ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Proceeding</span> from the Hartford +station, the banks of the cutting conceal much of the +scenery. The small and scattered village of Gorstage +appears on the W. From Hartford station to Acton station +the evenness of the ground renders a train visible to a +spectator, at either place, the entire distance.</p> +<blockquote><p>The town of Northwich lies two miles E. of the +railway; has a market on Friday, and fairs on April 10, for +cattle only, August 2, and December 6. Camden is of +opinion, that the brine springs here were used by the Romans, and +says, the town was anciently called Hellah-Du, or the Black Salt +Town. The town has a very antique appearance, and contains +a church very remarkable for its semi-circular choir, and for the +curious decorations of the roof of the nave, which consist of +numerous figures of wicker baskets, similar to those used in the +process of salt-making. The commercial prosperity of +Northwich, is entirely dependent upon its numerous brine springs +and extensive mines of rock salt; in which article the trade is +so great, as to produce an annual export of 100,000 tons from the +springs alone. They were discovered at a very early period, +and are usually more than one hundred yards in depth. The +brine, being raised by pumps set in motion by steam-engines, is +conveyed by pipes into pans, thirty or forty feet square: these +are fixed over furnaces, the heat arising from which, causes the +water to evaporate, and the salt to crystallise; it is then <a +name="page57"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 57</span>drained and +dried, and is fit for sale. The mines of rock salt were +discovered in 1670, the upper stratum, lying about sixty yards +below the surface of the earth, is ten yards thick. About +1772, a second stratum, ten feet thick, and of superior quality, +was discovered, at the depth of one hundred and ten yards, the +intermediate space being occupied by a solid mass of stone. +This latter bed alone is worked by the following process:—A +shaft is sunk, and on reaching the mine a roof of salt is left, +supported by pillars of the same material. As the +excavation proceeds, the fragments are raised in buckets by means +of steam-engines. The pits form an area of two, three, or +four acres, and when illuminated, present a singularly beautiful +and magnificent appearance; the light being reflected from all +points in every variety of hue, as from a promiscuous assemblage +of mirrors and prisms. This fairy palace was the scene of +an elegant entertainment, given by the spirited proprietors, to +about a hundred of the members of the British Association, during +the meeting at Liverpool, in 1837.</p> +<p>From an account published in 1818, it appeared that 200,000 +tons of manufactured salt, and upwards of 40,000 tons of rock +salt, were landed at Liverpool during the preceding year, and +that upwards of 280,000 bushels are annually sold for internal +consumption, by far the greatest proportion having been obtained +in this neighbourhood; since that period the business has +materially increased. The river Weaver and the Grand Trunk +Canal afford great facilities for water-carriage from Northwich; +and three hundred vessels are employed in the salt trade alone, +which return laden with coal.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Passing through one or two slight cuttings, the line commands +a fine view of Grange Hall, which stands on a well-wooded hill, +near to the railway on the W. Eastward, is the village of +Weaverham, and Winnington Hall, and, in the distance, the Overton +Hills. The cutting at Acton Heath terminates near the</p> +<h3><a name="page58"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 58</span>Acton +Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +68¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 29¼ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Crowton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1½ mile.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Weaverham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cuddington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¾ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barnton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Kingsley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Great Budworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Delamere House</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Tarvin</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10¼ —</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Having</span> left Acton, the prospect is +much impeded for some distance by the frequent cuttings through +which the line passes; in the intervals, the Overton Hills appear +on the W. Aston Hall (seat of the late H. C. Aston, Esq.) +and grounds are shortly seen on the E., and immediately in front +lies Dutton Wood. The traveller now approaches the +magnificent viaduct crossing the river Weaver and the valley of +Dutton.</p> +<blockquote><p>This gigantic structure exceeds in magnitude +anything of the kind yet accomplished in this country, or perhaps +in Europe, not even excepting the Menai Bridge. The Viaduct +is of the Gothic order, formed of red sand-stone procured from +the neighbourhood of Bolton and Runcorn; it consists of twenty +arches, of sixty feet span, and sixty feet in height, and the +battlements add twelve feet more to the height; the whole length +is 1,400 feet: 700,000 cubic feet of stone have been used in the +work—the whole cost was £50,000.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The grandeur of this stupendous work is greatly enhanced by +the richness and beauty of the adjacent country.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p59.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Dutton Viaduct" +title= +"Dutton Viaduct" +src="images/p59.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p><i>Completion of the Dutton Viaduct</i>. On +Friday, January 9, 1837, was performed the ceremony of laying the +last, or key stone, of <a name="page59"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 59</span>the magnificent viaduct across the +Weaver, at Dutton. A party of the directors from Liverpool +attended, and were met by Mr. Locke, the engineer, and the +resident engineers and contractors on the line. Mr. +Heyworth, as the senior director present, after placing the last +stone in its bed, addressed the party. He congratulated the +workmen (of whom about one hundred and fifty were present) on +their steady perseverance and diligence in bringing to perfection +so noble a work: he rejoiced to find, that, in the erection of +this, the greatest and first structure of its kind in the +kingdom, no life or limb had been sacrificed. Mr. Locke, +the engineer, and the Rev. W. Stanhope, also addressed the +meeting. The health of the workmen was then given by Mr. +Locke, amid hearty cheers. In the evening, the viaduct was +illuminated with torches, and fireworks were displayed in great +abundance; during which time the workmen were regaled with a good +dinner and excellent cheer.—<i>Chester Courant</i>.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The traveller who would enjoy glimpses of railroad views, must +bear in mind the velocity of his conveyance, and prepare to +“see whatever can be seen,” or the most important +objects will have glanced by the windows of his comfortable +locomotive arm-chair coach, before any second person can warn him +of their presence. Emerging from a cutting, which +immediately succeeds the viaduct, Dutton Hall is observed on the +E. backed by wood. A short distance farther, a fine +rear-view is obtained (only by outside passengers we fear) of the +Weaver, the vale of Dutton, Cogshall Park beyond, and in the +distance the range of Derbyshire Hills. Passing between +Bird Wood and Dutton Wood, we reach the tunnel at Preston Brook, +110 yards in length, over which the Chester road passes.</p> +<h3><a name="page60"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +60</span>Preston Brook Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +72½—Liverpool and Manchester, 25 miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Frodsham</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ince</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Plemondstall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thornton Le Moors</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Guilden Sutton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Stoak or Stoke</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Chester</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">13 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Backford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Preston</span>, though a small place, is +one of considerable traffic, from its vicinity to the salt +districts, and to the Grand Trunk Canal.</p> +<blockquote><p>Frodsham lies three miles W. of the line at this +part; it has a market on Saturday, and fairs on May 15, and +August 21. The principal branch of trade is salt refining, +besides which, there are flour mills and cotton factories. +This place is mentioned in Doomsday Book, as being the property +of the Earl of Chester. The town, situated on an eminence +on the banks of the Weaver, near its confluence with the Mersey, +consists of a broad street, a mile in length; at the E. end is a +bridge of four arches over the Weaver, and at the W. end +anciently stood a Norman castle; another street leads to the +Church, an ancient structure, partly in the Norman style of +architecture.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Norton Priory, the residence of Sir Richard Brooke, Bart., is +seen on the W. A religious establishment formerly existed +here, some ancient parts of which are included in the present +mansion. The Duke of Bridgewater’s canal runs through +the park. In the rear of Norton Priory, as seen from the +railway, is the now busy and important town of Runcorn, +containing 10,326 inhabitants.</p> +<blockquote><p><a name="page61"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +61</span>In 915, Ethelfleda, sister to King Edward the Elder, +widow of Ethelred, King of Mercia, built a town and castle near +the river Mersey, at this place, some traces of which are still +visible. In 1133, William Fitz Nigel founded here a +monastery of canons regular, which, in the reign of Stephen, was +removed to Norton Priory above mentioned.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Runcorn is a place of considerable resort for bathing, and has +been recently much enlarged, and improved by handsome buildings, +&c. The township abounds with fine stone quarries, from +which great quantities are sent by water to Liverpool, +Manchester, &c. Here are extensive chemical and soap +works, in connexion with which a chimney of 273 feet in height, +and of great beauty, has recently been erected. The church +is in the early and later styles of English architecture. +Near Runcorn are the fine ruins of Halton Castle, situated on a +steep eminence, and commanding an extensive and beautifully +varied prospect, including the Mersey estuary, the Welsh +mountains, and richly-wooded scenery in Cheshire and +Lancashire. This fortress was demolished during the civil +wars. Eastward, passing Keakwick, and Daresbury, where is a +fine old church, The Elms appear. Passing which we arrive +at</p> +<h3>Moore Station.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +75—Liverpool and Manchester, 22½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places W. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Halton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ miles.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Daresbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1¼ mile.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lower Runcorn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hatton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2¼ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Higher Runcorn</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Stretton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Weston</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 —</p> +</td> +<td><p>Grappenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><a name="page62"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 62</span><span +class="smcap">The</span> pretty village of Moore is not seen from +the line. Richly-wooded country lies on either side the +road now, and occasionally peeping through the trees, the masts +of vessels passing on the Mersey may be observed. The +Mersey Viaduct is next traversed. This, though far less +grand in appearance than the Dutton Viaduct, is a fine erection +of 200 yards in length, consisting of twelve arches, nine being +small, and three of larger span, beneath which the river Mersey, +and the Mersey and Irwell Canal pass. Shortly after leaving +the viaduct the town of Warrington is seen on the E., and +westward lies Penketh, and the small white buildings at +Fiddler’s Ferry.</p> +<h3>WARRINGTON STATION.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Distance to Birmingham, +78—Liverpool and Manchester, 19½ miles.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DISTANCES BY +ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING +PLACES:—</span></p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Places E. of +Station</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Grappenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3½ miles.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lymm</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5½ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Warburton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bowdon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11¾ —</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Altringham</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12 —</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Warrington</span> forms a pleasing view +from the approaching trains.</p> +<blockquote><p>It contains 19,155 inhabitants, and is by some +writers supposed to have been originally a British town, and on +the invasion of the Romans under Agricola, in 79, to have been +converted into a Roman station. This supposition rests +chiefly on the circumstances of three Roman roads tending +hitherwards to a ford over the Mersey; the vestiges of a castrum +and fosse, still discernable; and the discovery of Roman coins +and other relics near the ford. <a name="page63"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 63</span>On its occupation by the Saxons, it +obtained the name of <i>Weringtun</i>, from <i>Wæring</i>, +a fortification, and <i>tun</i>, a town. The river was +passed by ford till 1496, when Thomas, first Earl of Derby, +erected a stone bridge in compliment to Henry VII., when on his +visit to Latham and Knowsley. In the reign of Henry VIII., +Leland, speaking of Warrington, says, “It is a pavid towne +of prety bignes, the paroche chirce is at the tayle of the towne; +it is a better market than Manchestre.” In the civil +wars of 1643, the Royalists of the place betook themselves to the +<i>church</i>, which they fortified, but the Parliamentarian +battery dislodged them from their military sanctuary. The +town is pleasantly situated on the Mersey; the streets are +chiefly narrow, but contain some good buildings.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Prior to the construction of the railroad between Liverpool +and Manchester, seventy stage-coaches passed through Warrington +daily; now only <i>four</i> run. The manufactures comprise +muslin, calico, velveteen, sailcloth, (which was formerly the +staple trade,) pins, files, hardware, glass, malt, soap, and ale +of strength and quality renowned. Railways, rivers, and +canals, facilitate trade materially. The market days are +Wednesday and Saturday; the fairs commence July 18 and November +30, continuing ten days. There are cloth halls, and various +public buildings, and a fine old church, dedicated to St. Helen; +the architecture exhibits traces of various styles and +periods. Two ancient sepulchral chapels remain, and contain +some magnificent monuments of the Boteler, Massey, and Patten +families. There are two other churches, and various +dissenting chapels and meetings, Free Grammar School, Blue Coat +School, and many others, also Hospitals and other excellent +institutions.</p> +<h2><a name="page64"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +64</span>CHAPTER VIII.<br /> +WARRINGTON TO NEWTON JUNCTION,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Four and ¾ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Passing</span> on from Warrington, the +line commands a view W. of Busey Hall, (seat of Lord Lilford,) a +fine old mansion, surrounded by wood; a little farther, is Burton +Wood and Bold Heath and Park, (seat of Sir Henry Houghton,) also +on the W., Orford Hall (seat of Hon. Mrs. Hornby) on the E., and +Billinge Beacon Hill N.W. The spire of Winwick Church is +seen shortly before arriving at</p> +<h3>Winwick Station,</h3> +<p>which, though not mentioned in the Company’s list, has, +since the opening of the railway, been used as a station, for the +accommodation of persons in the vicinity.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p64.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Winwick Church" +title= +"Winwick Church" +src="images/p64.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p><a name="page65"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +65</span>Winwick Church is a beautiful and ancient edifice, with +a lofty spire; and is said to be coeval with the establishment of +the Christian religion in this country.</p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p65.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Winwick Church" +title= +"Winwick Church" +src="images/p65.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<blockquote><p>Winwick Hall, residence of the Rector and Lord of +the Manor, the Rev. J. J. Hornby, is near the church. This +living is one of the wealthiest in the kingdom. Between the +village of Winwick and town of Newton, is an elevated piece of +ground, called Red Bank, from its having been, in 1648, the scene +of a battle between Oliver Cromwell and the Scots, when the +latter were defeated with great slaughter.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A short distance brings us to the</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Newton Junction</b>.</p> +<h2><a name="page66"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +66</span>CHAPTER IX.<br /> +NEWTON JUNCTION TO LIVERPOOL.<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Fourteen and ¾ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Having</span> to describe the railroad +branches to Liverpool and Manchester, we shall now continue our +account along the Liverpool part of the line, and in the next +Chapter take the “Newton to Manchester” +portion. Leaving the Newton Junction, and turning to the +left, the E. becomes North, and the W. we must call South. +The constant traffic on the Liverpool and Manchester line, and +the numerous trains journeying to and fro, render it a much more +busy and stirring scene than the Birmingham railroad is at +present.</p> +<blockquote><p>The Grand Junction Company rent the use of this +Liverpool and Manchester railway at 20,000 per annum. The +exact length of the Liverpool and Manchester railway, from the +station, Lime-street, Liverpool, to Water-street, Manchester, is +thirty miles and three quarters, and thirty yards.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>A short distance from the Junction is the Sankey Viaduct, a +grand and stupendous work; the arches are nine in number, and +fifty feet span; the embankments leading to and from it, are from +sixty to eighty <a name="page67"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +67</span>feet above the level country. Newton Common and +Race-ground, the stand on which is a conspicuous object, lie to +the N., with the Billinge hills behind, Burton Wood S., and the +Sankey Canal winds along from either side. After +passing</p> +<h3>Collin’s Green Station</h3> +<p>Bold Hall (seat of Sir Henry Houghton) appears to the S., and +we soon enter on the Parr Moss, passing the Sutton copper works +on the N.</p> +<h3>St. Helen’s and Runcorn Junction Station.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> the St. Helen’s line +branches to the N., and the Runcorn Gap Railway, S. Shirley +Hall lies on the N. side. On the S., is the Engine-house, +where an engine is stationed to assist trains in ascending the +Sutton inclined plane. Proceeding through the Sutton +cutting, and under several fine arches, the</p> +<h3>Lea Green Station, (top of Sutton incline,)</h3> +<p>at the summit of the elevation, is gained, and Rainhill level +entered upon. The village of Sutton and Grove Hall are +nearly hidden from view by the surrounding trees.</p> +<h3>Kendrick’s Cross Station, Rainhill.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">From</span> Rainhill station the line +passes through a short cutting, and then descends the Whiston +inclined plane. <a name="page68"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 68</span>Prescot Church is on the N. side, +with Ellsby Hills and Halton Castle on the S.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p68.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Prescot Town And Church" +title= +"Prescot Town And Church" +src="images/p68.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The town of Prescot, one mile N. of the line, lies principally +on a substratum of coal, several mines of which are excavated to +its very edge. The district has long been noted for the +superior construction of watch tools and motion-work. The +drawing of pinion-wire originated here; and small files, +considered to be of great excellence, are made and exported in +large quantities. Coarse earthenware, especially sugar +moulds, are here made from the clay of the neighbourhood, which +is particularly adapted to the purpose. The plate-glass +works at Ravenhead are very extensive and celebrated. The +concave and convex mirrors, and large plate-glass, being equal, +if not superior to any produced on the Continent. The +Church is ancient; the spire, <a name="page69"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 69</span>which was rebuilt in 1789, is 156 +feet high, and is a fine object from the railroad. In the +Church are several monuments, one by Sir Francis Chantrey, R.A., +is of great beauty. John Philip Kemble, the tragedian, was +born at Prescot, in 1757. The view of the Cheshire hills in +the southward distance, is rich and extensive.</p> +<blockquote><p>Knowsley Park, seat of the Earl of Derby, appears +on the N. The mansion has evidently been erected at +different periods; its most ancient part is of stone, and is said +to have been raised by the first Earl of Derby, for the reception +of his son-in-law, King Henry VII., in whose honours the Earl had +been mainly instrumental. Great enlargement and decoration +of the mansion took place on occasion of this royal visit: a +handsome stone bridge was thrown across the Mersey at Warrington, +and an embankment or causeway thrown up across the marshes to the +rising ground on the Cheshire side. Many valuable and +interesting pictures adorn the mansion, which is surrounded by a +beautiful park.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Several coal, lime, and marble works are passed on either +side; and while traversing the Huyton embankment, Preston church, +the Hazels, seat of Joseph Birch, Esq., and the church and +village of Huyton are observed on the N. On the S. appears +Childwall park, hall, and church; beyond, is Woolton hall, seat +of N. Ashton, Esq.; the whole scene finely wooded.</p> +<h3>Huyton Gate and Roby-lane Gate Stations</h3> +<p>are shortly passed; the village of Roby lies S. of the line, +and closely adjoining it. Proceeding onwards, along a +pleasant but not very interesting part, Summer-hill house is +seen, the seat of Thomas Case, Esq.; also, the little church of +Notting Ash and Childwall hall, a seat of the Marquis of +Salisbury.</p> +<h3><a name="page70"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 70</span>Broad +Green Station.</h3> +<p>A <span class="smcap">few</span> yards from the station, on +the N. side, is a place for the landing of cattle, sheep, +&c. The line now enters the Olive Mount excavation, +which is an immense chasm, cut in the solid rock, to the depth of +from 50 to 70 feet, the precipitous rock forming a grand wall on +either side. The village of Wavertree lies S. of the line, +after emerging from the Olive Mount ravine; Spekelands, the +residence of Mrs. Earle, lies also on the S., and on the N. is +the residence of C. Lawrence, Esq. Here the Liverpool tunnels +commence; one, for conveying passengers, &c., into the +Company’s station-yard in Lime-street, turns off on the +right hand, and is 2,230 yards long, 25 feet wide, and 17 feet +high. The other, for the conveyance of goods, direct to the +docks, in a straighter continuation of the line, is 2,250 yards +long, 22 feet wide, and 16 feet high. Engines are stationed +on each side of the line at this part, each of forty-horse power, +to draw the trains up the inclined plane of the tunnel, in coming +out of Liverpool, and let them down on their arrival from +Birmingham. The locomotive engines being attached to and +detached from the trains at this station.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>“A Friend to Railways,” in a letter to the Editor +of the Railway Magazine, May 1838, thus describes the mode of +drawing the trains up the inclined plane:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“At the upper end of the tunnel, which is +2,250 yards long, there is one pair of engines on each side of +the road; it being found <a name="page71"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 71</span>that a much more regular motion is +given by this means to the carriages. The engines are +high-pressure, with side-levers, similar to marine engines; the +connecting-rods, however, are reversed, and work the crank +downwards, and are connected to a horizontal shaft of great +strength running across and under the road in a tunnel, upon +which shaft a large drum-wheel is placed that works the +rope. In each engine-house is a raised platform, upon which +the man stands who works the engines; this platform leads to a +balcony on the outside of the engine-house, from which the man +can look down the mouth of the tunnel; a signal is given by means +of an air-pipe running through the tunnel, so formed at the upper +end as to produce a sound when the air is forced into it from the +lower extremity. This, I believe, is the invention of Mr. +King, of Liverpool. The engine-man on hearing the signal, +opens the steam-cock, and the engines start instantly. This +work was designed by Mr. Grantham, of the foundery of Messrs. +Mather and Dickson, of Liverpool, where the machinery was +constructed.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>Having now given an account of the whole journey, we must +proceed to a brief history and memoir of Liverpool itself.</p> +<h2><a name="page72"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +72</span>CHAPTER X.<br /> +LIVERPOOL.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">Liverpool</span> is an ancient sea-port, +borough, and market town, 205 miles from London, containing +205,964 inhabitants, exclusive of 10,000 seamen.</p> +<blockquote><p>Of its remote antiquity but little can be +asserted, amidst the great contrariety of opinion which is held +on this subject. Liverpool is not noticed in any of the +Roman Itinera, neither does the name occur in the Norman +survey. After the conquest it was granted by William, to +Roger de Poictiers, together with all the land between the Ribble +and the Mersey, and subsequently forfeited. It was +thereupon granted to the Earls of Chester; and on forfeiture by +their descendants, to Edmund, son of Henry III., as parcel of the +honour of Lancaster; and it remained an integral part of the +duchy possessions, until its alienation by Charles I., in +1628.</p> +<p>Various opinions have been hazarded regarding the etymology of +the name, without reference to the most ancient documents in +which it has been discovered. John, whilst Earl of Moreton, +and in possession of the honour of Lancaster, confirmed a grant +made by his father, Henry II., to Warin de Lancaster, of +<i>Liverpul</i>, with other places, under a certain +<i>reddendum</i>. In subsequent records it is written +<i>Lyrpul</i>, <i>Lythyrpul</i>, &c., signifying, probably, +in the ancient dialect of this country, the “lower +pool.” Some deduce its etymology from a pool +frequented by an aquatic fowl, called a “Liver,” or +from a sea-weed of that name; others, and with much more reason, +from the ancient British word <i>Lir</i>, “the sea,” +and a spreading water or pool, viz., the sea pool, or sea-water +pool.</p> +<p><a name="page73"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 73</span>Camden +says the Castle was built by Roger de Poictiers, in 1089; it +certainly was erected at a very early period. In October, +1323, Edward II. dates his orders, &c., from Liverpool +Castle; and in April, 1358, Henry, Duke of Lancaster, resided +there for a month. It was demolished by order of +Parliament, during the commonwealth, and in 1715, its site was +granted by Queen Anne, to the corporation, who built St. +George’s Church upon it. On King John ascending the +throne, at his brother’s death, he again came into +possession of the honour of Lancaster, and granted a charter to +the town of Liverpool, which Henry III., in 1229, confirmed, made +the town a free borough, instituted a guild merchant, and granted +additional privileges. These charters have been confirmed, +and further ones granted by succeeding sovereigns. The +several mandates for fitting-out and providing vessels for the +royal service, addressed by Edward II. and III., and subsequent +kings, afford proof of its then being a place of extensive trade +at this early period; and the fact of the royal order for the +prohibition of the export of grain, in the time of Richard III., +being transmitted to Liverpool only, is also a proof of its then +being the only shipping port in the country. Leland, in +1558, described it thus: “<i>Lyrpole</i>, alias +<i>Lyrpoole</i>, a pavid towne, hath but a chapel, Walton, a iiii +miles off, not far from the se, is paroche chirche. The +king hath a castell there, and the Earle of Darbe hath a stone +house there. Irisch marchants cum much thither, as to a +good haven. After that Mersey water cumming towards +Runcorne in Cheshire liseth among the commune people the name, +and is Lyrpole. At Lyrpole is smaule costume payid that +causith merchants to resorte. Good marchaundis at Lyrpole, +and much Irisch yarn that Manchester men do by ther.” +Liverpool appears to have declined, probably from the baneful +influences of the wars of York and Lancaster, until the latter +part of the reign of Elizabeth, when, in a petition from the +inhabitants to the Queen, it is described as “Her +Majesty’s poor decayed town of Liverpool.” Its +poverty may be understood from the fact, that when Charles I. +levied his iniquitous and despotic tax of ship money, this town +was rated at £26 only, while Bristol was rated at +£1,000. In the civil war Liverpool was alternately +held by the Parliamentarians, taken by Prince Rupert, <a +name="page74"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 74</span>and retaken +by the Parliament. In the reign of William III., that +monarch, with part of his train, embarked at this port for +Ireland, previously to the battle of the Boyne; and regiments and +privateer vessels were here equipped against the Pretender and +the French.</p> +<p>Times and manners are somewhat changed here since 1617, when +one of the orders of the common-council demanded, “that +every council-man shall come to council <i>clean-shaved</i>, and +in his long clothes.” Slander and gossip were very +severely punished by the civic dignitaries, it being a law, +“that if any man speak ill of the mayor, he shall lose his +freedom.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The most important feature in the history of this place, is +the extraordinary rapidity with which it has risen into a degree +of splendour and importance, without example in the history of +any commercial country. Among the causes which have +produced its elevation to a rank but partially inferior to the +metropolis, are, its situation on the shore of a noble river, +which expands into a wide estuary; its proximity to the Irish +coast; its central position with respect to the United Kingdom; +its intimate connexion with the principal manufacturing +districts, and with every part of the kingdom, by numerous +rivers, canals, and railroads, and the persevering industry and +enterprising spirit of its inhabitants. Without the +romance, we may see among them the reality of the merchant-nobles +of Genoa and Venice; and the grandeur which pervades the modern +buildings of our English port may scarcely be outvied in +stateliness, and certainly not in fitness and utility, by any +palace-city of the past.</p> +<p>As we passed along the busy quays of these crowded docks, and +thought of the wealth conveyed by the <a name="page75"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 75</span>winged couriers of the ocean there +congregated, the following gorgeous lines in Marlow’s Jew +of Malta, occurred to us: perhaps the expectant owners of +argosies bound hitherward, deal not quite so largely as the +poet’s Croesus, in jewelled treasures; but we cannot very +honestly change amethysts into tobacco, nor bags of fiery opals +into bales of cotton wool; the circumstances of the case may +therefore be allowed to vary a little, without our transposing +the terms:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“As for those Samnites, and the men of +Uzz,<br /> +That bought my Spanish oils, and wines of Greece,<br /> +Here have I purst their paltry silverlings,<br /> +Fie! what a trouble ’tis to count this trash!<br /> +Give me the merchants of the Indian mines,<br /> +That trade in metal of the purest gold;<br /> +The wealthy Moor, that in the eastern rocks<br /> +Without control can pick his riches up,<br /> +And in his house keep pearls like pebble stones;<br /> +Receive them free, and sell them by the weight:<br /> +Bags of fiery opals, sapphires, amethysts,<br /> +Jacinths, hard topaz, grass-green emeralds,<br /> +Beauteous rubies, sparkling diamonds,<br /> +And seld’ seen costly stones of so great price,<br /> +As one of them, indifferently rated,<br /> +And of a caract of this quality<br /> +May serve, in peril of calamity<br /> +To rescue great kings from captivity.<br /> +This is the ware wherein consists my wealth,<br /> +And thus methinks, should men of judgment frame<br /> +Their means of traffic from the vulgar trade,<br /> +And as their wealth increaseth, so inclose<br /> +Infinite riches in a little room.<br /> +But now—how stands the wind?<br /> +Into what corner peers my halcyon’s bill?<br /> +Ha! to east? yes:—see how stands the vane?<br /> +East and by south, why then I hope my ships<br /> +I sent from Egypt, and the bordering isles,<br /> +Are gotten up by Nilus’ winding banks:<br /> +Mine argosies from Alexandria,<br /> +Loaden with spice and silks, now under sail<br /> +Are smoothly gliding down by Candy shore<br /> +To Malta, through our Mediterranean sea.”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><a name="page76"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 76</span>We +have, ere this, noted many a merchant (not of Venice) to whom we +have mentally applied Salarino’s words to Antonio; and few +will grudge the space we here occupy, by a quotation so apt and +beautiful:—</p> +<blockquote><p>“<i>Salorino</i>. Your mind is tossing +on the ocean;<br /> +There, where your argosies with portly sail,<br /> +Like seigniors and rich burghers of the flood,<br /> +Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,—<br /> +Do overpeer the petty traffickers,<br /> +That curtsey to them, do them reverence,<br /> +As they fly by them with their woven wings.<br /> + + +—My wind, cooling my broth,<br /> +Would blow me to an ague, when I thought<br /> +What harm a wind too great might do at sea.<br /> +I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,<br /> +But I should think of shallows and of flats,<br /> +And see my wealthy Andrew docked in sand,<br /> +Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs,<br /> +To kiss her burial. Should I go to church,<br /> +And see the holy edifice of stone,<br /> +And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks?<br /> +Which touching but my gentle vessel’s side,<br /> +Would scatter all her spices on the stream,<br /> +Enrobe the rolling waters with my silks,<br /> +And, in a word, but even now worth this,<br /> +And now worth nothing. Shall I have the thought<br /> +To think on this; and shall I lack the thought<br /> +That such a thing be-chanced, would make me sad?<br /> +But, tell not me; I know, Antonio<br /> +Is sad to think upon his merchandise.<br /> +<i>Antonio</i>. Believe me, No; I thank my fortune for +it,<br /> +My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,<br /> +Nor to one place: nor is my whole estate<br /> +Upon the fortune of this present year:<br /> +Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.”</p> +<p style="text-align: right"><span +class="smcap">Shakspeare</span>.</p> +<p>The commerce of the port may be divided into three branches: +first, the trade with Ireland, whence a variety of produce, +chiefly grain, cattle, &c., is imported, the gross value of +which has amounted annually to £4,497,708, exclusive of +linen and manufactured wares. Liverpool enjoys about +two-fifths of the Irish trade. The <a +name="page77"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 77</span>chief exports +are British manufactured goods, salt, coal, and general +merchandise. The second principal branch of trade is that +with the United States of America, of which it engrosses more +than three-fourths of the whole commerce of the kingdom. +The chief import is cotton wool, and from this port Manchester +and the manufacturing districts are supplied with the raw +material. Tobacco is also imported to an <i>alarming</i> +extent. The average quantity annually introduced for the +contamination of our atmosphere, being 7,623 +<i>hogsheads</i>—what a fearful store of materials for +smoking the brains, and dusting the nostrils of our +fellow-creatures! A great quantity of American flour is +also imported. The third branch of the trade is that with +the West Indies, which commenced about the middle of the +seventeenth century, and which was previously engrossed by London +and Bristol. Sugar, rum, and coffee, are the chief luxuries +we receive thence through the other ports. The trade with +the East Indies is smaller; the imports are cotton, indigo, +hides, ginger, pepper, and sugar. With the ports of the +Mediterranean and Levant seas, Liverpool has considerable +traffic, importing wine, fruits, lemon and lime juice, olive and +other oils, barilla, and brimstone. From Egypt is brought +cotton; and from the Baltic sea-ports, timber, tallow, +&c. The gross receipts of the customs at this port +alone, exceed the sum derived from the nine other principal ports +of the three kingdoms (London excepted), viz., Bristol, Hull, +Newcastle, Leith, Glasgow, Greenock, Dublin, Belfast, and +Cork. Vessels from, and bound to, all parts of the globe, +are congregated here; and there is scarcely a place in the world +accessible to the British flag, to which a ready conveyance is +not afforded from this enterprising port.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The harbour is capacious and secure: at the entrance of the +river is the Black Rock Lighthouse, erected on a point of rock on +the western coast. A floating light is also placed eleven +miles seaward from the mouth of the river.</p> +<p>For the security of the shipping in the port, and for <a +name="page78"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 78</span>the greater +facility of loading and unloading merchandise, immense ranges of +docks and warehouses, extending upwards of two miles along the +eastern bank of the river, have been constructed, on a scale of +unparalleled magnificence; and forming one of those +characteristics of commercial greatness in which this town is +unrivalled. The docks are of three kinds:—the wet +docks, which are chiefly for ships of great burden, employed in +the foreign trade, and which float in them at all states of the +tide, the water being retained by gates; the dry docks, so called +because they are left dry when the tide is out, are chiefly +appropriated to coasting vessels; and the graving docks, which +admit or exclude the water at pleasure, are adapted to the repair +of ships, during which they are kept dry, and when completed are +floated out by admitting the tide. The Canning Dock is +chiefly occupied by sloops from the north coast, which import +corn, provisions, and slate, and convey back the produce of the +Mediterranean, the West Indies, Portugal, and the Baltic: it has +a quay 500 yards in length. The Salthouse Dock is for +vessels in the Levant, Irish, and coasting trades: the quay is +759 yards in extent. George’s Dock has a quay 1001 +yards in length. The King’s Dock is appropriated to +vessels from Virginia and other parts, laden with tobacco; which +article is exclusively landed here, and occupies a range of +warehouses 575 feet in length, and 239 in depth. The +Queen’s Dock, 470 yards long, with a spacious quay, is +chiefly occupied by vessels freighted with timber, and by those +employed in the Dutch and Baltic trades. The Brunswick Dock +is larger than any of the preceding, and receives <a +name="page79"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 79</span>vessels laden +with timber. Prince’s Dock is 500 yards in length, +with spacious quays, and along the west side is a beautiful +marine parade, 750 yards long, and eleven wide, defended by a +stone parapet wall, from which is a delightful view of the river +and the shipping: it is much frequented as a promenade. To +the westward of these are the Clarence Dock and Basin, +appropriated solely to the use of the steam vessels trading to +and from the port: there are several smaller docks, and +considerable additions are contemplated. When these are +completed, the whole range of docks will be two miles and 820 +yards in length, exclusively of the openings to the several +docks: the total area of water space contained in them is upwards +of ninety statute acres, and the extent of the quays in lineal +measure is 12,511 yards, or upwards of seven miles; yet spacious +as they are, they are still considered inadequate to the +increasing commerce of the port. Several ranges of +commodious baths are situated in the vicinity of the docks; there +are hot, cold, floating, and medicated vapour baths.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The new Custom-house is a superb and beautiful edifice, in the +Grecian style of architecture, 454 feet in length, 224 in depth, +with three principal fronts of great magnificence. The +Exchange buildings, erected by the late Mr. John Forster, form +sides of a quadrangular area, in the centre of which is a +monument to the memory of Lord Nelson. The north front of +the Hall forms the fourth side of this square. This is a +stately and magnificent structure in the Grecian style, with four +elegant fronts, and contains on the ground <a +name="page80"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 80</span>floor a +council-room, and apartments for the mayor, town clerk, +pensioners, and corporation. The grand staircase leads into +a spacious saloon, splendidly decorated with royal portraits by +Lawrence, Hopner, Phillips, &c. Two spacious +ball-rooms, and two richly furnished drawing rooms, decorated +with marble pillars, chandeliers, &c., are entered from the +saloon. A grand banquet-room, refectory, &c., &c., +fitted up with great taste and splendour, are also comprised in +this grand suite of apartments. The Public Subscription +Libraries are numerous and well selected. The +Athenæum contains a news-room and an extensive +library. The Lyceum is a handsome edifice of the Ionic +order; contains a library, coffee-room, lecture, and +committee-rooms. The Union News-room, Exchange News-room, +Medical and Law Libraries, are all well supported. The +Royal Institution is a spacious and handsome edifice, containing +on the ground floor, lecture, reading, and school-rooms; on the +first floor, a large room for the Literary and Philosophical +Society, a library, museum, spacious exhibition rooms for the +Liverpool Academy of painting, &c. On the roof is an +observatory, and behind are a laboratory and a theatre for +chemical and philosophical experiments. This institution +was formed in 1814, for the advancement of literature, science, +and the arts; and the members were incorporated by royal charter, +in 1822. Professors, lecturers, and masters are appointed +by the society. The Botanic Gardens near Edge Hill, and the +Zoological Gardens, are valuable additions to the rational and +profitable amusements of the inhabitants. There is a +Theatre, Amphitheatre, and Circus, the <a name="page81"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 81</span>former for the drama, the two latter +for equestrian performances and pantomimes. The Wellington +Rooms, for balls, are admirably adapted for such gay +scenes. The summer races in July continue four days, the +course lies five miles to the N.E. of the town. The grand +stand is capable of accommodating 2,000 persons. The +chartered market days are Wednesday and Saturday, and for corn, +Tuesday and Friday. The Market-houses are numerous, +handsome, and commodious.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The corporation of Liverpool have an income of above +£100,000 per annum, a great portion of which is expended in +the improvement of the port and embellishment of the town. +The Churches of the Establishment are about twenty-four in +number, some of them of great architectural beauty. In +addition to the Churchyards, there are two extensive Cemeteries, +one near Edge-hill; the other occupying a large tract of ground, +excavated as a quarry for stone used in the building of the +docks, and converted into a depository for the dead, at an +expense of £21,000; it is tastefully laid out, and has a +suitable chapel for the performance of the funeral service. +The buildings dedicated to religious purposes by the several +sects of Dissenters, are about forty in number, some of them of +considerable beauty. The Public Schools are very numerous, +and so well supported as to render them valuably and most +extensively useful. That for the indigent blind, was +established in 1791; 120 pupils now receive instruction in +various branches, and are taught spinning, basket-making, the +weaving of linen, sacking, carpeting, the making of <a +name="page82"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 82</span>list shoes, +twine, worsted rugs, and other trades, by which they may earn a +livelihood; they are also instructed in music. Asylums and +Institutions, too numerous to be here enumerated; Hospitals, +Infirmaries; Societies for the assistance and relief of aged +seamen, and other humane and admirable purposes, are, by the +munificence of the inhabitants, all enabled to administer in no +small degree to the wants and misfortunes of suffering +fellow-beings.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Among the distinguished natives of the town may be noticed +Jeremiah Horrox, the astronomer, born 1619, at Toxteth Park, near +Liverpool. He is supposed to have been the first person who +ever predicted or observed the transit of Venus over the +sun’s disk. He died on the 3rd of January, 1641, a +few days after completing his treatise on the transit which took +place in the November preceding. George Stubbs, the animal +painter, born 1724. William Sadler, who invented the +application of copper-plate prints to the embellishment of +earthenware. William Roscoe, author of the lives of Lorenzo +de Medici, and of Leo X. He died in 1831, aged +seventy-nine, equally beloved and regretted for his excellence as +a man, and for his ability as an author. The Rev. William +Shepherd, author of the life of Poggio Brachiolini, &c., an +elegant writer, and earnest reformer. Dr. Currie, the +intelligent biographer of Burns, was also a native of Liverpool, +as was the gentle-minded and truly feminine poet, Felicia +Hemans.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The manufactures of Liverpool, are chiefly such as <a +name="page83"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 83</span>are connected +with the port and the shipping, the promotion of its commerce, +and the supply of its inhabitants. There are several very +large sugar refineries, extensive potteries, glass-houses, +breweries, tanneries, salt and copperas works, iron and brass +foundries, foundries for cannon, anchors, chain-cables, and steam +engine machinery, manufactories for steam-boilers, engines, also +guns, small arms, sails, cordage, watches, tobacco, snuff, and +soap. There are numerous mills for grinding corn, mustard, +colours, and dye-woods: the manufacture of soap exceeds that of +any place in England. The average number of watches made +annually, is 11,500, a number greater than any town, except +London. Ship-building is carried on to a great extent; +several men-of-war have been launched from the dock-yards; and in +the building of steam vessels, Liverpool takes the lead of all +other ports. The trade of the town is greatly facilitated +by the extensive inland navigation in every direction, by which +it is connected with the manufacturing districts and chief towns +in the kingdom. No less than five water conveyances fall +into the Mersey, viz., the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, Duke of +Bridgewater’s Canal, Sankey Canal, Chester and Ellesmere +Canal, and Weaver Navigation, opening communication with +Manchester, Bolton, Hull, South Lancashire, Birmingham, +Worcestershire, South of England, and Wales.</p> +<blockquote><p>The information required by the traveller +respecting inns, coach-offices, &c., will be found in the +Appendix; together with a list of places of amusement and +interest, worthy the attention of a stranger in this great and +truly splendid sea-port.</p> +</blockquote> +<h2><a name="page84"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +84</span>CHAPTER XI.<br /> +NEWTON JUNCTION TO MANCHESTER,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">Fourteen and ¾ Miles.</span></h2> +<p><span class="smcap">On</span> leaving the Newton (or, as it is +called in the neighbourhood, Warrington) Junction, the neat +little town of Newton is seen N. of the line, not far from the +Legh Arms Hotel, a comfortable and reasonable house.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p84.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Town of Newton" +title= +"Town of Newton" +src="images/p84.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>Opposite, lying S. of the line, we again see the spire of +Winwick Church, Mow Copp, and the Cheshire and Rivington hills +appear in the distance.</p> +<h3><a name="page85"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 85</span>Park +Side Station.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Here</span> the machine and apparatus for +supplying the engines with fuel and water is well worth +observing, though with great caution, as there are five lines of +rails in this place; and the difficulty of escaping from a coming +train is no small one to a stranger, who, standing upon, or among +them, would find himself greatly bewildered in any +emergency. The horrible death of Mr. Huskisson, from the +injuries he received at this very spot, may be a salutary warning +to the adventurous. A white marble slab in the wall +commemorates the awful event, which it is useless to allude to +further, the particulars being so well known. The Wigan +Junction Line branches off a short distance from this +point. Passing a short cutting on Highfield Moor, we reach +the most considerable one on the Manchester and Liverpool line, +the Kenyon excavation, the materials taken from which contributed +mainly towards the adjacent embankments. The Bolton +Junction line turns N. from this part, at which is</p> +<h3>The Bolton Junction Station.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">We</span> now enter on the Brossley +embankment, and observe Culcheth Hall, S., and Hurst Hall, N. of +the line; the former the residence of T. E. Withington, Esq., the +latter of T. Molineux Steel, Esq.</p> +<h3>Bury-Lane Station</h3> +<p>closely adjoins the Chat Moss tavern, near which the <a +name="page86"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 86</span>line crosses +the little stream Glazebrook. S. is a farmhouse, called +Light Oats Hall. Here commences an embankment planted with +trees; passing which we enter on the famed Chat Moss, formerly a +barren and cultureless waste; but at length yielding to +agricultural skill and industry, several portions having already +been drained and successfully cultivated.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p86.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Chat Moss" +title= +"Chat Moss" +src="images/p86.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>The road traverses this immense bog for a distance of four +miles and three quarters. S. of the line is a fine view of +the Cheshire and Derbyshire hills, with the village of Astley and +Tildsley Church spire. Rivington Pike, and the Billinge +Beacon lie on the N., and the Chat Moss all around. Immense +labour and perseverance were required to achieve the great work +of forming a firm and durable road over this swampy tract, which +varies in depth from ten to above thirty feet.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><a name="page87"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 87</span>Several +neat habitations are now erected on the farmlands redeemed from +the swamp: of these, Barton Moss Farm is the chief. N. of +the Moss lies Worsley Hall, seen from the line, on an +eminence. Botany Bay, a place of singularly ill-omened +name, is also on the left, or N. side. The hills before +mentioned still form the back ground of the views on either +side. Leaving the Chat Moss by the Barton embankment, the +line passes</p> +<h3>Patricroft Station;</h3> +<p>Near to this are large iron foundries and silk works. +The Bridgewater Canal passes under, and the turnpike-road over, +the line. Monton Church and village appear N. of the road; +and shortly after, the village and Church of Eccles are seen on +the S.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/p87.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Eccles Church" +title= +"Eccles Church" +src="images/p87.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p>This small place has achieved fame by two means: the death of +Mr. Huskisson, which took place at the <a name="page88"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 88</span>house of the Rev. Mr. Blackburn; and +by its cakes, which the traveller is invited to purchase by a +board over the door of a house close by the station, on which is +inscribed, “This is the noted Eccles cake +shop.” Passing</p> +<h3>Waste Lane Station</h3> +<p>some cottages and factories, and the city of chimneys, +Manchester, appear in view. The village of Tinker’s +Hollow, and</p> +<h3>Cross Lane Bridge Station</h3> +<p>being passed, also sundry arches and bridges across the river +Irwell, and the engine, trains, and travellers, are received into +the Company’s yard in Manchester.</p> +<h2><a name="page89"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +89</span>CHAPTER XII.<br /> +MANCHESTER.</h2> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> town of Manchester, including +Salford, contains 270,960 inhabitants, and is distant from London +186 miles, and from Liverpool thirty-one by the railroad.</p> +<blockquote><p>The origin of this town, which is remarkable for +the extent of its trade, and the importance of its manufactures, +may be traced to remote antiquity. In the time of the +Druids, it was distinguished as one of the principal stations of +their priests, and celebrated for the privilege of sanctuary +attached to its altar, which, in the British language, was called +<i>Meyne</i>, signifying a stone. Prior to the Christian +era, it was one of the principal seats of the Brigantes, who had +a castle or stronghold, called <i>Mancenion</i>, or the place of +tents, near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell, the +site of which, still called the “Castle Field,” was +selected as a station by the Romans, on their conquest of this +part of Britain under Agricola, about the year 79, and called by +them <i>Mancunium</i>, whence the Saxon <i>Manceastre</i>, and +our <i>Manchester</i>. The Romans occupied this station +during nearly four centuries, and formed roads, branching off to +their surrounding settlements. Various antiquities have +been from time to time discovered in the neighbourhood. +After the departure of the Romans, a party of Saxons took the +fort from the Britons, to whom the garrison afterwards +surrendered. In 620, it was captured by Edwin, King of +Northumbria. In 627, the inhabitants were converted to +Christianity, by Paulinus, a missionary from Gregory I. +Manchester having been taken by the Danes, was wrested from their +possession, about 920, by Edward the Elder, who rebuilt and +fortified the town and <a name="page90"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 90</span>castle. For some time it +continued prosperous, but suffered greatly in the wars between +the Danes and Northumbrians. The early history of all +ancient towns, chiefly “pertains to feats of broils and +battles;” castles founded, demolished, and rebuilt, to be +destroyed again; baronial feuds and fierce invasions; with the +faint and fruitless struggles of <i>right</i> against +<i>might</i>, make up the dark and bloody record.</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<blockquote><p>After the twelfth century, a calmer period +arrived; and, though occasionally troubled by the pest of war, +the fortunes of the now wealthy town of Manchester, have been +progressively increasing. From the year 1352, we may date +the commencement of its manufacturing celebrity, when a kind of +woollen cloth, made from the fleece, in an unprepared state, +called “Manchester cotton,” was introduced; and some +Flemish artisans, invited into England, by Edward III., settled +in the town, and brought the woollen manufacture to a +considerable degree of perfection. At the time of the +Reformation, an ecclesiastical commission was established at +Manchester, and exercised great intolerance, imprisoning and +executing numbers of popish recusants; another of the black and +by-gone deeds of our past “dark ages.” During +the Parliamentary war, the head-quarters of the Parliamentarian +army, in Lancashire, were fixed at Manchester, which was +fortified and defended too well for the Royalist forces to be +successful in any of their repeated attacks. In 1652, the +walls were thrown down, the fortifications demolished, and the +gates carried away and sold. The good town of Manchester +had grown great and wealthy; but we much doubt if it had become +particularly grave or wise, since we know that extravagant +rejoicings, accompanied by every splendour of pomp and ceremony, +took place at the restoration of the not-too-excellent King +Charles II., in whose honour, and to the glorification of the +thirsty woollen-weavers, the public conduits flowed with streams +of wine, instead of water; a celebration worthy of the +“merry monarch.”</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<blockquote><p>In 1745, Prince Charles Edward entered Manchester +with his army, and took up his abode in the house of Mr. +Dickenson, in <a name="page91"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +91</span>Market-street, when he levied money, raised men and +horses for his service, and after marching about the country, +made a rapid retreat into Scotland, before the army of the Duke +of Cumberland. The officers of the Manchester regiment, +were tried for high treason, and executed on Kennington Common, +two of the heads being placed on Temple Bar, and two on the +Exchange, Manchester. With this inhuman and disgraceful +event, the record of the “fortunes of war,” connected +with this place, ends,—we will trust for ever.</p> +</blockquote> +<p>The various manufactures carried on in Manchester, would +occupy a descriptive work of no small extent, in themselves; and +the account which so small a volume as the present can find space +for, must be brief indeed. The staple trade is the cotton +manufacture, which, in all its branches, is carried on to an +almost incredible extent. From the time of Edward III., +when the “Manchester cottons” were first introduced, +this branch of trade has been increasing in importance. +About the year 1740, cotton was manufactured by the spindle and +distaff in the cottages of the workmen, chiefly into fustians, +thicksets, dimities, and jeans, to which other kinds of goods +were shortly added. About the year 1760, these goods, +hitherto made only for home consumption, formed a market on the +continent of Europe and America, and in consequence of the +increased demand, recourse was had to the aid of machinery. +The spinning jennies, invented by Messrs. Kay and Highs, have +been introduced, and greatly improved by Mr. Hargreaves, whose +success, exciting the apprehensions of the hand-workmen, caused +the destruction of his machinery, and his retreat to Nottingham, +where he died in indigence. <a name="page92"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 92</span>Sir Richard Arkwright, the late Sir +Robert Peel, and others, have improved and invented other +machines, which, aided by the power of the steam-engine, have +prodigiously increased the quantity and variety of the goods +manufactured in this town.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>In the spinning department alone, there are in the town and +vicinity 114 factories, worked by 118 steam-engines, the +aggregate power of which is equal to that of 3,981 horses; by +this machinery, 2,182,350 spindles, and 6,926 power-looms are set +in motion. The power-looms, a recent invention, originating +with the Rev. Mr. Cartwright, of Holland House, Kent, were not +proved finally successful till 1806. The factories, in +several of which the whole process of the manufacture, from the +introduction of the raw material, to the completion of the +fabric, is carried on, are immense ranges of building, from six +to eight stories in height, some employing 2,000 persons each, +and the whole affording employment to upwards of 30,000 +persons. The principal articles at present manufactured are +velvets, fustians, jeans, ticking, checks, ginghams, nankeens, +diaper, quilting, calico, muslins, muslinets, cambric +handkerchiefs, small wares, silks, and, in fact, every variety of +cotton and silk goods. There are also extensive bleaching +grounds, works for printing and dyeing, and all other departments +of the manufacture. Extensive forges, foundries, &c., +for the machinery used, laboratories for chemical productions +used in the trade, and mills for the manufacture of all +descriptions of paper; engraving, as connected with the printing +of cotton and muslin goods, is carried on to a great <a +name="page93"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 93</span>extent; and +there are hat manufactories, and saw mills on a very large +scale. It is needless to inform the reader, that an +inspection of some of these immense hives of labour and +invention, will well repay the trouble of a visit. It is a +proud feeling to an Englishman to know, that the productions of +the thousand busy hands and whirling wheels around him, are +destined to increase the comfort, refinement, or splendour of +nations, spread far and wide over the globe: and it is a joyful +thing to compare present greatness and secure freedom, with the +long past years when a little bristling fortress and a tented +field, scenes of barbaric bloodshed and grovelling slavery, +occupied the spot of earth now devoted to usefulness, industry, +and knowledge.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Manchester is situated on the banks of the river Irwell; +(which here receives the tributary streams of the Irk and the +Medlock;) on the N.W. bank lies the newly erected borough of +Salford, connected by means of five bridges with Manchester, of +which it forms an integral part. In various parts of the +town there are altogether nearly sixty bridges. The town is +well paved, and lighted with gas; and the inhabitants are +supplied with water by the Manchester and Salford Water +Company. The environs, in many parts, particularly in +Broughton, Ardwick-green, and Gibraltar, are pleasant, and +present many ranges of handsome residences, tasteful villas, and +cottages. In the older parts of the town are several +ancient houses, interspersed with modern dwellings, and, except +where recent improvements have been made, the streets are <a +name="page94"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +94</span>inconveniently narrow; the accommodation of trade being +more studied here than elegance and symmetry of appearance.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The public buildings and institutions of Manchester are well +worthy of its wealth and importance. The Exchange and +Commercial Buildings, facing the Market-place, form a spacious +handsome edifice, built of Runcorn stone: containing the +News-room, Exchange, Library, Post-office, Chamber of Commerce, a +spacious Dining-room, and other apartments. The members of +the Literary and Philosophical Society have a suitable building +for their meetings, and have published many volumes of +Transactions in the English, French, and German languages, which +are much circulated on the continent. The Royal +Institution, embracing a variety of objects connected with +literature, science, and the fine arts, has a fine building in +the Grecian style, from a design by Mr. Barry, forming a splendid +addition to the architectural ornaments of the town. The +centre comprises the Hall and Lecture Theatre, lighted by a +lantern from the ceiling, which may be darkened instantaneously +at the will of the lecturer. One of the wings is +appropriated as the Academy of the Fine Arts, with +Exhibition-rooms, and the other as a Museum of Natural +History. The whole cost of this elegant pile was estimated +at £50,000. The Town Hall is a noble edifice, from a +design by Mr. F. Goodwin, after the model of the Temple of +Erectheus, at Athens, with a beautiful tower and dome in the +centre, resembling the Tower of Andronicus, called “The +Temple of Winds:” it contains various apartments for +transacting the <a name="page95"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +95</span>public business of the town, and one splendid room, 132 +feet long, decorated with great elegance. The Town Hall at +Salford is a handsome and commodious stone edifice by the same +architect. The Society for promoting the study of natural +history, has a valuable and extensive Museum also; and the town +possesses flourishing Mechanics’ Institutions, Philological +Society, Agricultural Society, Botanic Garden, several Libraries, +two Theatres, Assembly-rooms, Concert-rooms, Annual Races, and +Triennial Musical Festivals. There are twenty-six churches +and chapels belonging to the Establishment, and more than fifty +places of worship for the various denominations of +Dissenters. The windows of St. John’s Church, in +Byrom-street, contain some very ancient and beautiful stained +glass, brought from a convent in Rouen; also, pictures in the +vestry, and a fine piece of sculpture, by Flaxman. The Free +Grammar School, founded in the 7th of Henry VIII., has a revenue +of £4,000, and the number of scholars is from 150 to +200. The Blue Coat, St. Paul’s, Lancasterian, +National, and Infants’ Schools, are all highly useful, and +well-supported establishments; and the various Sunday Schools +instruct as many as 30,000 children. The Hospitals and +other Charitable Institutions are equally extensive in their +sphere of usefulness, and together with the establishments before +mentioned, worthy of the wealth, intelligence, and liberality of +this great and important town.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Among the distinguished natives of Manchester, or persons who +have been otherwise connected with it, may be enumerated, William +Crabtree, an astronomical <a name="page96"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 96</span>writer, and inventor of the +micrometer, born at Broughton and killed at the battle of Marston +Moor in 1644; John Byrom, a poet, and author of a system of +shorthand; John Ferriar, M.D., author of Illustrations of Sterne, +&c.; Thomas Barritt, the antiquary and heraldist; Thomas +Faulkner, an enterprising traveller, who published the earliest +account of Patagonia, and died in 1774; the Rev. John Whittaker, +the Manchester historian; and others of less renown. +Manchester gives the title of duke and earl to the family of +Montague. The market days are Tuesday, Thursday, and +Saturday; fairs on Easter Monday and Tuesday, and October 1 and +2. Salford fairs begin on Whit Monday, for twenty-one days; +and on November 17, for the same time.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>The information required by the traveller respecting inns, +places of public resort, &c., will be found in the Appendix, +under the head of Manchester.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">END OF THE +ROUTE.</span></p> +<h2>REGULATIONS OF THE GRAND JUNCTION AND LIVERPOOL AND +MANCHESTER RAILWAY COMPANIES.</h2> +<p style="text-align: center"> +<a href="images/ptrain1.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Train of the Period" +title= +"Train of the Period" +src="images/ptrain1.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3><i>REGULATIONS OF THE GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY +COMPANY</i>.</h3> +<p><span class="smcap">Time of departure</span>.—The doors +of the Booking Office are closed precisely at the time appointed +for starting, after which no passenger can be admitted.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Booking</span>.—There are no Booking +Places, except at the Company’s Offices at the respective +Stations. Each Booking Ticket for the First Class Trains is +numbered to correspond with the seat taken. The places by +the mixed Trains are not numbered.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Luggage</span>.—Each +Passenger’s Luggage will, as far as practicable, be placed +on the roof of the coach in which he has taken his place; carpet +bags and small luggage may be placed underneath the seat opposite +to that which the owner occupies. No charge for <i>bona fide</i> +luggage belonging to the passenger under 100lb. weight; above +that weight, a charge is made at the rate of 1d. per lb. for the +whole distance. No kind of merchandise allowed to be taken +as luggage. The attention of travellers is requested to the +legal notice exhibited at the different stations, respecting the +limitation of the Company’s liabilities to the loss or +damage of luggage. All passengers by Railway will do well +to have their luggage distinctly marked with their names and +destination.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Gentlemen’s carriages and +horses</span>.—Gentlemen’s carriages and horses must +be at the Stations at least a quarter of an hour before the time +of departure. A supply of trucks are kept at all the +<i>principal</i> Stations on the line; but to prevent +disappointment it is recommended that previous notice should be +given, when practicable, at the Station where they may be +required. No charge for landing or embarking carriages or +horses on any part of the line.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Road stations</span>.—Passengers +intending to join the Trains at any of the stopping places are +desired to be in good time, as the train will leave each Station +as soon as ready, without reference to the time stated in the +tables, the main object being to perform the whole journey as +expeditiously as possible. Passengers will be booked only +conditionally upon there being room on the arrival of the Trains, +and they will have the preference of seats in the order in which +they are booked. No persons are booked after the arrival of +the Train.—All persons are requested to get into and alight +from the coaches invariably on the left side, as the only certain +means of preventing accidents from Trains passing in an opposite +direction.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Conductors</span>, <span +class="smcap">guards</span>, <span class="smcap">and +Porters</span>.—Every Train is provided with Guards, and a +Conductor, who is responsible for the order and regularity of the +journey. The Company’s Porters will load and unload +the luggage, and put it into or upon any omnibus or other +carriage at any of the Stations. No fees or gratuities +allowed to be received by the Conductors, Guards, Porters, or +other persons in the service of the Company.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Smoking</span>, <span +class="smcap">selling of liquors</span>, &c.—No smoking +is allowed in the Station-houses, or in any of the coaches, even +with the consent of the passengers. A substantial breakfast +may be had at the Station-house at Birmingham, by parties, going +by the early train; but no person is allowed to sell liquors or +eatables of any kind upon the line.—The Company earnestly +hope that the public will co-operate with them in enforcing this +regulation, as it will be the means of removing a cause of delay, +and will greatly diminish the chance of accident.</p> +<p>Goods sent to Birmingham, Manchester, or Liverpool, by the +evening Trains, are generally delivered early on the following +morning.</p> +<h3>CONVEYANCES TO LOCAL TOWNS FROM STATIONS.</h3> +<h4>BESCOT BRIDGE.</h4> +<p>Conveyance.—A light Van runs from this Station to +Walsall for the conveyance of passengers.</p> +<h4>WOLVERHAMPTON.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Two Omnibuses from the town meet all the +Trains. Coaches to Shrewsbury, through Shiffnal and +Wellington, from the New Hotel:—Royal Mail, 7½ a.m.; +Swallow, 8½ a.m.; *Prince of Wales, 12¾ p.m.; +Wonder, 7¼ p.m. To Shrewsbury, from the Crown and +Cushion:—Salopian, 3¼ p.m., through Shiffnal, +Madeley and Ironbridge. To Shrewsbury, from the Railway +Station:—An Omnibus, 3 p.m., through Shiffnal and +Wellington. To Dudley 6¾ a.m.; *1½ p.m.; +*4½ p.m.; *6½ p.m. To Bridgenorth, 4 p.m.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Marked thus (*) do not run on +Sundays.</p> +<h4>STAFFORD.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Omnibuses are in attendance to convey +passengers to any part of the town. Coaches to +Burton-on-Trent, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, &c., 12½ +p.m. Rugeley and Lichfield, 3¾p.m. Stone and +Newcastle, 4½ p.m. Stone and Potteries, 7 p.m.</p> +<h4>WHITMORE.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Coaches daily to Shrewsbury, through Market +Drayton. A Coach through Newcastle to the Potteries +daily. The Pottery Company and Green’s Omnibuses +daily to Newcastle and Potteries.</p> +<h4>BASFORD AND MADELEY STATIONS.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Conveyances are in waiting at these +Stations to take passengers and goods to Newcastle, the +Potteries, or any other place.</p> +<h4>CREWE.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—A Coach from Macclesfield, through +Congleton and Sandbach, to Crewe Station, twice daily. A +Coach to Whitchurch, daily. An Omnibus from Nantwich to +Crewe, to meet all the Trains, and convey passengers to +Nantwich.</p> +<h4>HARTFORD.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Adams’ Omnibus (with the letter bags) +to Northwich and Knutsford, morning and evening. Mail to +Chester and Tarporley, daily. From Chester there are +Coaches to all parts of North and South Wales.</p> +<h4>PRESTON-BROOK.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Leaves Wilson’s Hotel, Runcorn, +morning and afternoon, to meet the Trains, and return on the +arrival of the Trains at this station.</p> +<h4>WARRINGTON.</h4> +<p>Conveyances.—Omnibuses are in attendance to convey +passengers to any part of the town. Chaises, Cars, or Gigs, +to be had in a few minutes’ notice. Coaches to +Macclesfield, Stockport, Liverpool, Carlisle, Edinburgh, and all +parts of the North.</p> +<h3>TABLE OF FARES AND DISTANCES.</h3> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>BIRMINGHAM</p> +</td> +<td colspan="28"><p>BIRMINGHAM</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Perry Barr</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="27"><p>Perry Barr.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newton Road</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="26"><p>Newton Road.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bescot Bridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¼<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="25"><p>Bescot Bridge.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>James’s Bridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">¾<br /> +16 10</p> +</td> +<td colspan="24"><p>James’s Bridge.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Willenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11¾<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8½<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">1¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="23"><p>Willenhall.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>WOLVERHAMPTON</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14¼<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10¾<br /> +2 6 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="22"><p><b>WOLVERHAMPTON.</b></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Four Ashes</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">20<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16½<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13¼<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10½<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¾<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="21"><p>Four Ashes.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Spread Eagle</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21½<br /> +4 6 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">18<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14¾<br /> +3 6 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12<br /> +3 0 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11¼<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9½<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">1½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="20"><p>Spread Eagle.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Penkridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">20½<br /> +4 6 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">17¼<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14½<br /> +3 6 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13¾<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12<br /> +3 0 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¾<br /> +2 6 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="19"><p>Penkridge.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>STAFFORD</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29¼<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25¾<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19¾<br /> +4 6 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19<br /> +4 6 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">17¼<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15<br /> +3 6 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¼<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5¼<br /> +16 10</p> +</td> +<td colspan="18"><p><b>STAFFORD</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bridgeford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32½<br /> +7 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29¼<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26<br /> +6 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">23¼<br /> +5 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">20¾<br /> +5 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">18½<br /> +4 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12¾<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11¼<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8¾<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="17"><p>Bridgeford.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Norton Bridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">35<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31½<br /> +6 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">28¼<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25½<br /> +6 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24¾<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">23<br /> +5 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">20¾<br /> +5 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15<br /> +3 6 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13½<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="16"><p>Norton Bridge.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>WHITMORE</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43¼<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39¾<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36½<br /> +8 0 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">33¾<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">33<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31¼<br /> +7 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29<br /> +6 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">23¼<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21¾<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19¼<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10½<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="15"><p><b>WHITMORE</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Madeley</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">42½<br /> +9 0 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39¼<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36½<br /> +8 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">35¾<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">34<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31¾<br /> +7 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24½<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16¾<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13¼<br /> +3 0 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11<br /> +2 6 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="14"><p>Madeley.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Basford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51<br /> +12 0 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">47½<br /> +10 6 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44<br /> +10 6 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41½<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41<br /> +10 0 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39<br /> +9 6 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">37<br /> +9 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29<br /> +7 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">27<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">18<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="13"><p>Basford.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>CREWE</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54<br /> +12 0 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">50½<br /> +10 6 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">47¼<br /> +10 6 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44½<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43¾<br /> +10 0 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">42<br /> +9 6 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39¾<br /> +9 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">34<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32½<br /> +7 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">30<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24¾<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21¼<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10¾<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="12"><p><b>CREWE</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coppenhall</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">56<br /> +12 6 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">52½<br /> +11 6 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">49¼<br /> +11 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46½<br /> +10 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">45¾<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41¾<br /> +9 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36<br /> +7 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">34½<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32<br /> +6 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26¾<br /> +5 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">23¼<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12¾<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="11"><p>Coppenhall.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Minshull Vernon</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58¾<br /> +13 0 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">55¼<br /> +12 6 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">52<br /> +11 6 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">49¼<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">48½<br /> +11 0 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46¾<br /> +10 6 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44½<br /> +10 0 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">38¾<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">37¼<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">34¾<br /> +8 0 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29½<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26<br /> +5 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">23¾<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15½<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12¾<br /> +3 0 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">8<br /> +3 0 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2¾<br /> +16 10</p> +</td> +<td colspan="10"><p>Minshull Vernon.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Winsford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">61¼<br /> +13 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">57¾<br /> +12 6 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54½<br /> +12 0 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51¾<br /> +11 6 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">49¼<br /> +10 6 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">47<br /> +10 0 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41¼<br /> +9 0 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39¾<br /> +8 6 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">37¼<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32<br /> +7 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">28½<br /> +6 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26¼<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">18<br /> +4 6 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15¼<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="9"><p>Winsford.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>HARTFORD</b> *</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">65¾<br /> +14 0 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">62¾<br /> +13 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">59<br /> +13 0 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">56¼<br /> +12 0 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">55½<br /> +11 6 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">53¾<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51½<br /> +10 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">45¾<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44¼<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41¾<br /> +9 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36½<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">33<br /> +7 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">30¾<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19¾<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">15<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11¾<br /> +2 6 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¾<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="8"><p><b>HARTFORD</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Acton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68¼<br /> +15 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">64¾<br /> +14 6 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">61½<br /> +14 0 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58¾<br /> +13 6 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58<br /> +13 0 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">56¼<br /> +12 6 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54<br /> +12 0 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">48½<br /> +10 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46¾<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">44¼<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39<br /> +8 6 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">35½<br /> +8 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">33¼<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22¼<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">17<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14¼<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12¼<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9½<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="7"><p>Acton.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Preston Brook</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">72½<br /> +15 6 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">69<br /> +15 0 13 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">65¾<br /> +14 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">63<br /> +13 6 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">62¼<br /> +13 6 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">60½<br /> +13 0 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58¼<br /> +12 6 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">52½<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">48½<br /> +10 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43¼<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39¾<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">37½<br /> +8 6 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29¼<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26½<br /> +5 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21½<br /> +5 6 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">18½<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16½<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13¾<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">11¼<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4¼<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="6"><p>Preston Brook.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Moore</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">75<br /> +16 0 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">71½<br /> +15 6 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68¼<br /> +14 6 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">65¼<br /> +14 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">64¾<br /> +13 6 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">63<br /> +13 0 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">60¾<br /> +12 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">55<br /> +11 6 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">53½<br /> +11 0 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51<br /> +10 6 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">45¾<br /> +10 0 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">42¼<br /> +9 0 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">40<br /> +9 0 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31¾<br /> +7 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29<br /> +6 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24<br /> +6 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19<br /> +4 0 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16¼<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">13¾<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¼<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">6¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">2½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="5"><p>Moore.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>WARRINGTON</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">78<br /> +17 0 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">74½<br /> +16 0 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">71¼<br /> +15 6 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68¼<br /> +15 0 13 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">67¾<br /> +14 6 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">66<br /> +14 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">63¾<br /> +13 6 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58<br /> +12 0 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">56¼<br /> +12 0 10 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54<br /> +11 6 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">48¾<br /> +10 6 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">45¼<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43<br /> +9 0 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">34¾<br /> +7 6 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">27<br /> +6 6 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22<br /> +4 6 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19¼<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">16¾<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">12¼<br /> +2 6 2 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">9¾<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">5½<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">3<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="4"><p><b>WARRINTON</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newton Junction</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">82¾<br /> +18 0 15 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">79¼<br /> +17 6 14 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">76<br /> +16 6 14 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">73¼<br /> +16 0 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">72½<br /> +15 6 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">70¾<br /> +15 0 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68½<br /> +15 0 13 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">62¾<br /> +14 0 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">61¼<br /> +13 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">58¾<br /> +13 0 11 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">53½<br /> +11 6 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">50<br /> +11 0 9 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">47¾<br /> +10 6 8 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">39½<br /> +8 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36¾<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">32<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">28¾<br /> +6 0 5 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">26¾<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">24<br /> +5 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">21½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">17<br /> +3 6 3 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14½<br /> +3 0 2 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">10¼<br /> +2 0 1 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">7¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">4¾<br /> +1 6 1 0</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>Newton Junction.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>MANCHESTER</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">97¼<br /> +21 0 17 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">94<br /> +21 0 17 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">90¼<br /> +21 0 16 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">88<br /> +19 6 16 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">87¼<br /> +19 6 16 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">85½<br /> +19 0 15 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">83¼<br /> +19 0 15 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">77½<br /> +16 6 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">76<br /> +16 6 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">73½<br /> +16 0 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68¼<br /> +15 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">64¾<br /> +14 0 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">62½<br /> +13 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54¼<br /> +12 0 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51½<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46½<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43½<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41¼<br /> +9 0 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">38¾<br /> +8 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36¼<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31¾<br /> +7 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29¼<br /> +6 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19½<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14¾<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: +center"><b>MANCHESTER</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><b>LIVERPOOL</b></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">97¼<br /> +21 0 17 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">94<br /> +21 0 17 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">90¾<br /> +21 0 16 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">88<br /> +19 6 16 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">87¼<br /> +19 6 16 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">85½<br /> +19 0 15 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">83¼<br /> +19 0 15 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">72½<br /> +16 6 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">76<br /> +16 6 14 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">73½<br /> +16 0 13 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">68¼<br /> +15 0 12 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">64¾<br /> +14 0 12 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">62½<br /> +13 6 11 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">54¼<br /> +12 0 10 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">51½<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">46½<br /> +11 0 9 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">43½<br /> +9 6 8 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">41¼<br /> +9 0 7 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">38¾<br /> +8 0 7 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">36¼<br /> +7 6 6 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">31¾<br /> +7 0 6 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">29¼<br /> +6 0 5 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">25<br /> +5 6 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">22½<br /> +5 0 4 0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">19½<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">14¾<br /> +4 0 3 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">30<br /> +6 0 4 6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><b>LIVERPOOL</b>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><i>Explanation</i>.—To find the fare and distance from +one station to another—say Stafford to Wolverhampton. +Find Stafford in the first column, carry your eye along the +column opposite to which it is placed until you arrive at +Wolverhampton placed in the slanting column, and there the fare +and distance will be found.</p> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> The figures at the +top of each square denote the distance, those on the left hand +the fare by the <i>first</i> class carriages, (<i>whether in +first class or mixed class trains</i>) and those on the right +hand the fare by the <i>second</i> class carriages.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">[<i>Entered at Stationer’s +Hall</i>.]</p> +<p>* The Fares from Stations above Hartford, to Stations on the +Manchester and Liverpool Line, are the same as to Manchester and +Liverpool. But the Fares from Hartford, Acton, Preston +Brook, Moore, and Warrington, to the Stations on the Manchester +and Liverpool Line, are in proportion to the distance.</p> +<p>The Fare from Birmingham to any Station on the Liverpool and +Manchester Line is in proportion.</p> +<p>N.B.—The Mixed Trains also take up and set down +Passengers <i>to or from any part of the Grand Junction +Railway</i>, at all the usual Stopping Places on the Liverpool +and Manchester Railway.—An allowance is <i>included</i> in +the above Tables of five minutes for <i>all</i> the Trains at the +<i>principal</i> Stations, and of three minutes for <i>the Mixed +Trains</i>, at the intermediate stopping places.—No Fare is +less than One Shilling by the principal Trains.—The Fare +between the intermediate Stopping Places is at the rate of about +2½d. per mile for First, and 1½d. for Second Class +Passengers. Tables of which are kept at each of the +Stations.</p> +<p>Parties arriving at Birmingham by the early Trains, can go on +in the same carriage to the London and Birmingham Railway +Station, and so proceed by the London Train.</p> +<h4>Departures</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO +BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>First, joins London Train at</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 15 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND +MANCHESTER.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>First</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed Train</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>1st Class</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>The 3 <span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span> Train from Liverpool +starts from the Station, Edge Hill, to which place any Passenger +wishing to go by this Train must proceed to take his place.</p> +<h4>On Sundays.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO +BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>First, joins London Train at</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed ,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND +MANCHESTER.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30 <span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Mixed</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">,,</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center">The Trains on Sundays stop at First +Class Stations only.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">By the Trains at 3</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>on week days, and at</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">on</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 30</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Sundays</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">and 6</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">and 6</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>First Class Passengers, Horses, and Carriages will, if +required, be booked throughout from Liverpool and Manchester +only, to London, (but not to any other place on the London and +Birmingham Line for the present,) without change of Carriage at +Birmingham. A certain number only can be booked by each train in +this manner.</p> +<p>No Horses can be booked further than Birmingham, unless they +belong to a Carriage or Passenger accompanying one of the +above-mentioned Trains.</p> +<p>Horses and Carriages should be at the Stations and booked at +least a quarter of an hour before the time of departure.</p> +<h4>Fares.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">BETWEEN LIVERPOOL OR MANCHESTER AND +BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">FROM LIVERPOOL OR MANCHESTER TO LONDON, WHEN +BOOKED THROUGHOUT AS ABOVE</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Six Inside 1st Class Coach</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Second Class Closed Carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">Day Trains.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Third Class Open Carriage by 6½ a.m. Train from +Liverpool or Manchester, and by 6 a.m. Train from Birmingham</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>6 Inside Coach, G.J. 21s. London £1. +10s. = £2. 11s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p>Passengers booked by this conveyance for the +entire distance only.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>4 Inside Coach, G.J. 23s. London £1. +10s. = £2. 13s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p>Children under Ten Years of age Half Price. +Ditto in arms free</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">Night Trains.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>6 Inside Coach, G.J. 21s. London £1. +12s. 6d. = £2. 13s. 6d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p>4 Inside Coach, G.J. 23s. London £1. +12s. 6d. = £2. 15s. 6d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>One Horse</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>G.J. £2 London £2. 10s =</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£4.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10s</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Two Horses, if one property and in one box.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, £3 ,, +£5 =</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£8</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Three do do</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, £4 ,, +£6 =</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£10</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Dogs each</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Gentlemen’s Carriages, four wheels</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, £3 ,, +£3. 15s =</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£6.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Do do two wheels</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, £2 ,, +£3. 15s =</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£5.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Passengers in Private Carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, 17s. Lond. (20s. Day</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£1.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p>25s. Night</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£2.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Servants</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +<td><p>,, 14s. ,, 20s. Day</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£1.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p>25s. Night</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£1.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">19s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Grooms in charge of Horses, if riding with them in the +box.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">14</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Servants, in attendance on their Employers, may ride +outside, if there be room, by First Class Trains, at Second Class +Fares.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">17</p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>For intermediate distances all Carriages, whether on two or +four wheels, will be charged alike.</p> +<p>Passengers are particularly requested to see that their +Luggage is safely loaded on the Carriages before starting, and +that it is legibly directed with the Owner’s name, address, +and destination.</p> +<h4>Officers of the Grand Junction Railway:—</h4> +<p>JOHN MOSS, Esq., <span class="smcap">of Liverpool</span>, +<span class="smcap">Chairman</span>.</p> +<p>C. LAWRENCE, Esq., <span class="smcap">of Liverpool</span>, +<span class="smcap">Deputy Chairman</span>.</p> +<p>J. R. CHORLEY, Esq., <span class="smcap">of Liverpool</span>, +<span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Mr</span>. S. EBORALL, <span +class="smcap">Chief Agent at Birmingham</span>.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Mr</span>. G. BAKER, <span +class="smcap">Chief Agent at Manchester</span>.</p> +<h3>GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—CONVEYANCE OF MERCHANDISE.</h3> +<p>The rates for the conveyances of Merchandise from Liverpool +and Manchester to Birmingham, and from Birmingham to Liverpool +and Manchester respectively, for the present, are as +follows:—</p> +<p>1st Class—Heavy hardware, 1s 6d. per cwt. No +charge less than 1s. 6d.</p> +<p>2nd Class—Bale goods, fruit, grocery, shoes, shell fish, +wines and spirits in casks, &c., &c., 2s. per cwt.</p> +<p>3rd Class—Silk goods, light trusses, toys, wines and +spirits in bottles packed, fish, furniture, wool, tea, &c., +&c., 2s. 6d. and 3s. per cwt.</p> +<p>4th Class—Hats, light glasses in crates, and +milliner’s boxes, &c., 7s. per cwt.</p> +<h3>Charge for Parcels to date from Oct. 1st, 1838, between +Liverpool and Manchester and Birmingham.</h3> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">Under 18lbs. +weight.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For any distance under 35 miles</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> ,, ,, above 35, and +not exceeding 50 miles</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Entire distance</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">Above 18lbs. +weight.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For any distance under 35 miles</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: right">½d. per +lb.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> ,, ,, above 35, and +not exceeding 50 miles</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: right">¾d. ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> ,, ,, ,, 50, to the +entire distance</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: right">1d. ,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center">From Liverpool and +Manchester to London.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>15 lbs. and under</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Above 15 lbs.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: right">2d. per lb.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Large light packages will be charged according to the bulk, +&c., at the discretion of the Company. Any person +sending a parcel is authorised to require its being booked in his +presence, as the Company will not be answerable for any parcels +that are not entered in their books.</p> +<h3>LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.</h3> +<p>Travelling by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, +1838.—The following are the Times of Departure both from +Lime Street Station, Liverpool, and from Liverpool Road Station, +Manchester.</p> +<p>First Class, 7, 9, 11, a.m., and 2, 3, 7, p.m.</p> +<p>Second Class, 7¼, 10, 12, a.m., and 3, 5½, 7, +p.m.—Stopping only at Newton, except on Tuesdays and +Saturdays, when the evening Second Class Train from Manchester +starts at 6, instead of 5½ o’clock.</p> +<h3>On Sundays.</h3> +<p>First Class, 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.—Second Class, 7 a.m. and +5½ p.m.</p> +<h4>Fares.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>By First Class train—Four inside—Royal +Mail</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td><p> ditto—Six +inside—Glass Coach</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>By 2nd Class train—Glass Coaches</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td><p> ditto—Open +carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Charge for the conveyance of Four-wheeled carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> + +<td><p> ditto—Two-wheeled +ditto</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p>Horses—For One horse 10s. —Two +horses 18s. —Three horses 22s.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>N.B.—All Horses must be embarked at the Company’s +Station, EDGE HILL, (Wavertree-lane,) unless accompanying +Carriages to which they belong; in which case they may be +embarked at <span class="smcap">Lime Street</span>.</p> +<h4>Luggage.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Notice</span>.—To prevent loss or +mistake of Luggage, Passengers are requested to keep charge of +their small Packages, by placing them under their Seats, instead +of on the Roof of the Coach.—The Weight allowed for each +Passenger is 60lb., beyond which a Charge will be made at the +rate of 3s. per cwt.</p> +<h3>Liverpool and Manchester to Wigan.</h3> +<p>By the First Class train 7 a.m.—2nd Class trains 10, 12, +a.m. and 5½ p.m.</p> +<h4>On Sundays.</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">By the 2nd Class Trains 7 a.m., and +5½ p.m.</p> +<p>FARES.—From Liverpool or Manchester, 1st Class 5s.; 2nd +Class 3s. 6d.</p> +<h3>Liverpool and Manchester to Bolton.</h3> +<p>By the 1st Class Train 9 a.m.—2nd Class Trains +7¼, 12, a.m., and 5½ p.m.</p> +<h4>On Sundays.</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">By the 2nd Class Trains 7 am., and +5½ p.m.</p> +<p>FARES.—From Liverpool, In. 5s. 6d., Out. 4s.; and from +Manchester, 2s. 6d. and 2s.</p> +<h3>Liverpool and Manchester to St. Helens.</h3> +<p>By the 2nd Class Trains, 7¼, 10, 12, a.m., and 3, +5½, p.m.</p> +<h4>On Sundays.</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">By the 2nd Class Trains 7 a.m., and +5½ p.m.</p> +<p>FARES.—From Liverpool In. 2s. 6d. Out 2s.; and from +Manchester, 3s. 6d. and 2s. 6d.</p> +<h3>Liverpool and Manchester to Runcorn Gap.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">By the 2nd Class Trains 7½ +a.m., and 3 p.m.</p> +<h4>On Sundays.</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">By the 2nd Class Trains 7 a.m. and +5½ p.m.</p> +<p>FARES.—From Liverpool, In. 3s., Out. 2s. 6d.; and from +Manchester 4s. and 3s.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h2><a name="page97"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 97</span>THE +VISITER’S GUIDE TO BIRMINGHAM, <a name="citation97a"></a><a +href="#footnote97a" class="citation">[97a]</a> LIVERPOOL, AND +MANCHESTER.</h2> +<h3>BIRMINGHAM.</h3> +<h4>PUBLIC BUILDINGS.</h4> +<p>The Town Hall, <a name="citation97b"></a><a +href="#footnote97b" class="citation">[97b]</a> situate at the top +of New-street; open to strangers.</p> +<p>The Free School, New-street.</p> +<p>Market Hall, High-street.</p> +<p>Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Paradise-street, +opposite the Town Hall, where an extensive Museum is at all times +open to the public.</p> +<p>The Society of Arts, New-street. Exhibition of Paintings +open in the Autumn.</p> +<p>Nelson’s Monument, High-street.</p> +<p>The Theatre Royal, New-street.</p> +<p>News Rooms, Bennett’s Hill.</p> +<p>Public Office, Moor-street.</p> +<h4>PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.</h4> +<p>Post Office, situate at the bottom of Bennett’s +Hill.</p> +<p>Stamp Office, Colmore Row.</p> +<p>Assay Office, Cannon-street.</p> +<p>The Cemetery, Hockley.</p> +<p>Proof House, Banbury-street.</p> +<h4><a name="page98"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +98</span>LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.</h4> +<p>The Society of Arts, New-street. Exhibition of Paintings +open in the Autumn.</p> +<p>Philosophical Institution, Cannon-street.</p> +<p>Mechanic’s Institution, Cannon-street.</p> +<p>Botanical & Horticultural Society. The Gardens are +at Edgbaston. Strangers are admitted by a +subscriber’s order.</p> +<p>Old Library, Union-street.</p> +<p>New Library, Temple Row West.</p> +<p>Law Library, Waterloo-street.</p> +<p>Medical Library, at the Royal School of Medicine, +Paradise-street.</p> +<h4>PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.</h4> +<p>Theatre Royal, New-street.</p> +<p>Ryan’s Amphitheatre, Bradford-street.</p> +<p>Billiard Rooms, Waterloo-street, adjoining the News Room; +New-street, adjoining the Theatre; and Cannon-street.</p> +<h4>PUBLIC CHARITIES.</h4> +<p>General Hospital, Summer Lane.</p> +<p>Dispensary, Union-street.</p> +<p>Asylum, (for Destitute Children,) near to Aston Park.</p> +<p>Workhouse, Lichfield-street.</p> +<p>Magdalen Asylum and Chapel, Islington.</p> +<p>Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, Cannon-street.</p> +<h4>SCHOOLS.</h4> +<p>Free Grammar School, New-street.</p> +<p>Blue Coat School, east side of St. Philip’s Church +Yard.</p> +<p>Infant Schools, Ann-street and Cherry-street.</p> +<p>National Schools, Pinfold-street.</p> +<p>Lancasterian School, Severn-street.</p> +<p>Protestant Dissenters’ Charity School, for females, +Park-street.</p> +<p>Deaf and Dumb Institution, Edgbaston.</p> +<h4>MISCELLANEOUS.</h4> +<p>Barracks, Great Brook-street, Ashted.</p> +<p>Court of Requests, High-street.</p> +<p>Duddeston Hall Lunatic Asylum, Duddeston.</p> +<p>Old Gas Works, Broad-street.</p> +<p>The Baths, (swimming, and hot and cold private Baths,) at Lady +Well, near the bottom of Worcester-street.</p> +<p>Vauxhall Gardens, Ashted.</p> +<h4><a name="page99"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 99</span>PLACES +OF WORSHIP.</h4> +<h5>Church of England.</h5> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Churches and Chapels.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Ministers, with their +Residences.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Services commence.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Martin’s, Bull-ring</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. Moseley, M.A., Bath-row, Rector; Rev. M. W. Foye, +A.M., Exeter-row, Curate; Rev. C. Arnold, A.M., Sandpits, +Lecturer.</p> +<p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Philip’s, Temple row</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. L. Gardner, D.D., Rectory, Rector; Rev. J. W. Downes, +M.A., Colmore-row, Lecturer; Rev. B. Spurrell, M.A. 36 St. +Paul’s-square, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ¼ past 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s, St. George’s</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. John Garbett, M.A., Hockley-hill, Rector; Rev. Layton +Irwen, Gt. Hampton-street, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>¼ before 11, ½ past 3, and ½ past 6; +Wednesday, ¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Thomas’s, Holloway-head</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Wm. Marsh, M.A., Hagley-row, Rector; Rev. Charles +Lowe, B.A., Bedford-place, Bristol-road, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and ½ past 6; Tuesday, 7, +prayer meeting; Sunday, 7; Friday, ½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>All Saints’, Hockley</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. S. F. Morgan, M.A., Grosvenor-row, Birmingham-heath, +Rector.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Christ Church, Paradise-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. G. Breay, B.A., Crescent, Minister; Rev. Daniel +Ledsam, B.A., Summer-hill, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6; Thursday, 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Bartholomew’s, Bartholomew-square</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Thomas Nunns, M.A., Crescent, Minister.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page100"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +100</span>St. Mary’s, St. Mary’s square</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. C. Barratt, M.A., St. Mary’s-row, Minister; +Rev. E. Hall, M.A., Summer-hill, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Paul’s, St. Paul’s square</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Rann Kennedy, M.A., The Hollies, Hall Green, +Minister; Rev. William Wenman, St. Paul’s-square, +Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>¼ before 11, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Peter’s, Dale-end</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Charles Craven, M.A., Edgbaston, Minister.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bishop Ryder’s, Stafford-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. John’s, Deritend</p> +<p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. E. Palmer, High-gate, Minister; Rev. J. Collisson, +B.A., Camphill, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. James’s, Ashted</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Josiah Allport, Ashted, Minister.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Trinity, Bordesley</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. S. Crane, B.A., Bordesley, Minister.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 3; in winter 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Aston Church, Aston</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. G. O. Fenwicke, M.A., Vicarage, Vicar; Rev. Horace +Chavasse, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Edgbaston Church, Edgbaston</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Charles Pixell, M.A., Vicarage, Vicar.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s, Calthorpe-street, Edgbaston</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Handsworth Church, Handsworth</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. John Hargreaves, M.A., Rectory, Rector; Rev. D. N. +Walton, M.A., Heathfield-lane, Curate.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Magdalen Chapel, Islington</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h5><a name="page101"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +101</span>Dissenters.</h5> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Chapels and Meeting Houses.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Ministers, and their +Residences.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Services commence.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Association +Methodists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newhall street,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. J. Handley, Minister.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 6; Wednesday, ¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: +center"><i>Baptists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cannon-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. Swann, Wheeley’s Lane, Edgbaston.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and ½ past 6; Monday and +Thursday, ½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bond street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. Morgan, Regent place, Harper’s hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6; Monday and Wednesday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Graham-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Hoby, D.D., Camden-hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6; Monday and Wednesday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newhall-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Ham, Bath-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and ½ past 6; Monday and +Wednesday, ½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lombard street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. G. Cheatle, Lombard-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, 3, and ½ past 6; Monday and Wednesday, ½ +past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: +center"><i>Calvinists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bartholomew-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Mr. Telford, Bordesley-place.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 6; Monday and Wednesday, ½ past +7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Zoah Chapel, Cambridge-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. James Jay.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, and ½ past 6; Wednesday, ½ +past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Lawrence-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Thomas Buckingham.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and half past 6; Monday and Thursday, +½ past 7</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page102"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +102</span><i>Dependent Methodists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Buck-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 2, & 6; Tuesday, ½ past 7; +Thursday, 8.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Holy Catholic +& Apostolic Church</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Newhall-street,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. Barclay.</p> +</td> +<td><p>6, 10, 2, ½ before 4, 5, ½ past 6; also +daily, 6, and 5.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: +center"><i>Independents</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Carr’s lane</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. A. James, Edgbaston.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6; Monday and Wednesday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Steelhouse-lane</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. East, Sparkbrook.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 6; Monday and Wednesday, ½ past +7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Livery-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Allsop, 7, Newhall-hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>¼ before 11, ½ past 6; Monday and Thursday, +¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Legge-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Messrs. Clay and Derrington, alternate Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6; Tuesday & Thursday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Great Barr-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Union Chapel, Handsworth</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Hammond, Union Row, Handsworth.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, 3, and ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Saltley, near the Railway</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, and 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page103"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +103</span><i>Jews’ Synagogue</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Severn-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Mr. Chapman, Smallbrook-street, Reader.</p> +</td> +<td><p>On Saturday at ½ past 8, during the winter months, +& 8, Summer months; 1, and at sunset.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Lady +Huntingdon’s</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>King-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. John Jones, Bristol Road.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, & ½ past 6; Monday, +Wednesday, and Friday, ½ past 7. A Welsh service at +2 every Sunday afternoon.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>New Jerusalem +Church</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Summer Lane</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. E. Madeley, Summer-lane.</p> +</td> +<td><p>¼ before 11, & ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>New Connexion +Methodists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Oxford-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Curtis, Ravenhurst street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, & 6; Tuesday & +Friday, ½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Primitive +Methodists</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Inge-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bordesley-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page104"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 104</span><i>Roman +Catholics</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Chad’s, Shadwell-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. E. Peach and Rev. J. Abbott.</p> +</td> +<td><p>¼ past 8, ½ past 9, ½ past 10, +½ past 3, and ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. Peter’s, St Peter’s place</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. M. McDonnell, St. Peter’s place.</p> +</td> +<td><p>9, ½ past 10, ½ past 3, & ½ past +6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Society of +Friends</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bull-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p>10, 3, in Winter, and 6 in Summer; Wednesday, 10.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Scotch +Church</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Broad-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Robert Wallace, M.A., No. 1, Summer-hill Terrace, +Sandpits.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11 & ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: +center"><i>Unitarians</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Old Meeting-house, Grub-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. Hugh Hutton, Edgbaston.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11 & ½ past 6.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>New Meeting-house, Moor street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. John Kentish, Bourn-brook, Bristol-road; Rev. S. +Bache, Frederick-street, Edgbaston.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11 & 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Thorp-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, ½ past 6; Wednesday, ½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cambridge-street, Crescent</p> +</td> +<td><p>Various Preachers.</p> +</td> +<td><p>11, 3.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><a +name="page105"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +105</span><i>Birmingham West Circuit</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cherry-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. G. B. McDonald, 45, Newhall-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and 6; Tuesday and Thursday, ¼ +past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Wesley Chapel, Constitution-hill</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. T. Dicken, 17, Vittoria-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, 3, and ½ past 6; Tuesday, +¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Islington Chapel</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Lomas, Hagley Road.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, and 6; Wednesday, +¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bristol-road</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. P. Haswell, Wellington-road.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, and 6; Tuesday; +¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><i>Birmingham East +Circuit</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Belmont-row</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. D. Walton, Belmont row.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, and 6; Wednesday +¼ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bradford-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. J. Barton, Camphill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, and 6; Wednesday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>New-town Row</p> +</td> +<td><p>Rev. W. Griffith, Jun.</p> +</td> +<td><p>½ past 10, ½ past 2, and 6; Thursday, +½ past 7.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4><a name="page106"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +106</span>PRINCIPAL SHOW ROOMS AND MANUFACTORIES. <a +name="citation106"></a><a href="#footnote106" +class="citation">[106]</a></h4> +<p>Soho, Handsworth.</p> +<h5>BRASS FOUNDERS.</h5> +<p>Anderton, W. and Sons, 6, Whittall-street.</p> +<p>Barber, J., and Green, 15, Newhall-street.</p> +<p>Bourn, John, 31, Lionel-street.</p> +<p>Docker, Thomas, and Sons, Whittall-street.</p> +<p>Heaton, Ralph, 70 and 71, Bath-street.</p> +<p>Horn, Thomas, Temple-row.</p> +<p>Lingham Brothers, 170, Little Hampton-street.</p> +<p>Messenger, Thomas, and Sons, 22, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Ratcliff, J. and E., St. Paul’s Square.</p> +<p>Simcox, Pemberton, and Co., 42, Livery-street.</p> +<p>Smith, Timothy, and Sons, 4, Bartholomew-street.</p> +<p>Standley, James, 43, Staniforth-street.</p> +<p>Swift, James, 7, Whittall-street.</p> +<p>Winfield, R. W., Cambridge-street.</p> +<h5>BRITISH PLATE MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Brown & Ball, Paradise-street.</p> +<p>Evans & Askin, George-street, Sand Pits.</p> +<p>Merry & Co., Cherry-street.</p> +<p>Sturges & Son, 26, Lichfield-street.</p> +<h5>BUTTON MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Armfield, Edward, Newhall-street.</p> +<p>Aston, J., St. Paul’s Square.</p> +<p>Bartleet, T., and Sons, 126, Great Charles-street.</p> +<p>Elliott, W., Frederick-street, Regent-street.</p> +<p>Hammond, Turner, and Sons, Snowhill.</p> +<p>Hardman, J., and Co., 12, Paradise-street.</p> +<p><a name="page107"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +107</span>Jennens and Co., Old Meeting-house-yard, Deritend.</p> +<p>Ledsam, Thomas, and Sons, 10, Great Charles-street.</p> +<p>Smith, C. F., 14, Newhall-street.</p> +<p>Steadman, R., Jun., 35, Edmund-street.</p> +<h5>CUT AND PLAIN GLASS MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Bedford, Sarah, & Co., 16, New-street.</p> +<p>Henderson, (Stainer of Glass,) New-street.</p> +<p>Price, High-street.</p> +<p>Rollason, Thomas, (Manufacturer to the Royal Family,) +Steel-house Lane.</p> +<p>Osler, F. & C., Broad street.</p> +<h5>GLASS WORKS.</h5> +<p>Bacchus and Green, Union Glass Works, Dartmouth-street.</p> +<p>Gammon, W. & Co., Belmont Glass Works, Great +Brook-street.</p> +<p>Goold & Co., Ætna Glass Works, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Harris, Rice, Islington Glass Works, Sheepcote-street, +Broad-street.</p> +<p>Thomson and Shaw, Bagot-street.</p> +<h5>GUN AND PISTOL MAKERS.</h5> +<p>Busby, J., 30½, New-street.</p> +<p>Dugard, R., 29, Whittall-street.</p> +<p>Jones, Charles, 16, Whittall-street.</p> +<p>Meredith, H., and Son, 48, St. Paul’s Square.</p> +<p>Powell, W., 49, High-street.</p> +<p>Pritchard, W., 135, New-street.</p> +<p>Redfern, B., Caroline-street.</p> +<p>Richards, Westley, 82, High-street.</p> +<p>Sargant and Son, 74, Edmund-street.</p> +<p>Wheeler, R., and Son, 27, Snow-hill.</p> +<h5>HOTHOUSE AND HORTICULTURAL BUILDING +CONSTRUCTORS—METALLIC AND COPPER SASH MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Clark, Thomas, jun., 55, Lionel-street.</p> +<p>Daft, Thomas, & Son, Town Hall Foundry, +Paradise-street.</p> +<h5><a name="page108"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 108</span>IRON +FOUNDERS.</h5> +<p>Boulton, Watt, & Co., Soho.</p> +<p>Capper, Charles Henry, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Jones, George, Phoenix Foundry, Snowhill.</p> +<p>Jones, Thomas, & Sons, Bradford-street.</p> +<p>Mole, T. & W., Pagoda Works, Bordesley.—Show Rooms, +Smithfield.</p> +<p>Smith & Hawkes, Eagle Foundry, Broad-street.</p> +<h5>JAPANNERS.</h5> +<p>Bill, R. & G., 14, Summer Lane.</p> +<p>Jennens & Bettridge, (Paper Tray Makers to her Majesty,) +99, Constitution Hill.</p> +<p>Lane, Thomas, Great Hampton-street.</p> +<p>Room, James, 28, Summer Row.</p> +<h5>JEWELLERS, SILVERSMITHS, AND EMPORIUMS FOR EVERY DESCRIPTION +OF CUTLERY, PLATED WARES, &C.</h5> +<p>Soho Plate Company, Handsworth.</p> +<p>Collis, G. R., Church-street.</p> +<p>Edwards, Ball, & Co., 82, High-street, where may be seen a +very extensive stock of silver goods and jewellery.</p> +<p>Mapplebeck & Lowe, Bull Ring.</p> +<h5>LAMP, CHANDELIER, CANDELABRA, LUSTRE, &c., +MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Aspinall, T., 33, Lower Temple-street.</p> +<p>Blakeway, John, Edgbaston-street.</p> +<p>Blakeway, Thomas William, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Messenger, Thomas, & Sons, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Osler, Follett, Broad-street, Islington.</p> +<p>Phipson & Evans, Newhall-street.</p> +<p>Ratcliff, John & Charles, 140, Suffolk-street.</p> +<p>Salt, Thomas Clutton, 17 & 18, Edmund-street.</p> +<p>Smith, Timothy, & Sons, 4, Bartholomew street.</p> +<h5>METAL ROLLERS.</h5> +<p>Cooke, Roome, & Harley, Fazeley-street.</p> +<p>Muntz, George Frederick, Water-street.</p> +<p>Phipson, William, Fazeley-street.</p> +<p>Union Rolling Mills, Cambridge-street.</p> +<h5><a name="page109"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 109</span>PIN +MAKERS.</h5> +<p>Phipson, T., & Sons, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Latham & Kilmister, Lancaster-street.</p> +<h5>PLATERS, AND MANUFACTURERS OF SILVER AND PLATED WARES.</h5> +<p>Baker, W. T., 42, Paradise-street.</p> +<p>Collis, G. R., Church-street.</p> +<p>Dixon, Matthew, 137, Snow-hill.</p> +<p>Kirkham, T., 13, Cherry-street, Union-street.</p> +<p>Parker, J., & Sons, 23½, Summer-row.</p> +<p>Parker, John Frederick, 72, High-street.</p> +<p>Ryland, William, 167, Great Charles-street.</p> +<p>Soho Plate Company, Soho.</p> +<p>Spooner, Painter, & Co., 12, New Market-street, Great +Charles-street.</p> +<p>Waterhouse & Son, 22, Hill-street.</p> +<p>Wilkinson, Thomas, & Co., 15, Great Hampton-street.</p> +<p>Willmore & Co., Bread-street.</p> +<h5>STEAM ENGINE MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>Boulton & Watt, Soho, Handsworth.</p> +<p>Capper, C. H., Broad-street.</p> +<p>Donaldson & Glasgow, 53, Suffolk-street.</p> +<p>Smith & Hawkes, Eagle Foundry, Broad-street.</p> +<p>Jones, George, Phoenix Foundry, Snow-hill and +Lionel-street.</p> +<p>Penn, Samuel, Great Lister-street Steam Mill.</p> +<p>Tongue, W., 95, Bordesley-street.</p> +<h5>SCREW MANUFACTURERS.</h5> +<p>James, J., Bradford-street.</p> +<p>Ledsam, Messrs., Edmund-street.</p> +<p>Ryland, H., Oozell-street, Broad-street.</p> +<h5>MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURERS, &c.</h5> +<p>Knight, Henry, Machinist, 15, Ann-street.</p> +<p>Middlemore, —, Holloway-head, Saddlers’ +Ironmonger.</p> +<p>Room, W. & F., Parade, Wholesale Saddlers and Bridle +Makers.</p> +<p>Rodgers & Co., Broad-street, Brace and Belt +Manufacturers.</p> +<h4><a name="page110"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 110</span>POST +OFFICE, BENNETT’S HILL.</h4> +<p><i>The following Statement shows the time of Arrival and +Departure of the various Mails</i>.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ARRIVALS.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">DEPARTURE.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 25</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Bristol</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9 20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 48</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>London</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sutton Messenger</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 50</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Banbury</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 50</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10 23</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Chipping Norton</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 30</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>First G. J. Railway</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 45</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Noon</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bilston Messenger</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 30</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p>Second G. J. Railway</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4 30</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sheffield</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 2</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Yarmouth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 45</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 35</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Leamington</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5 15</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Oldbury Messenger</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Halesowen / Castle Bromwich / Great Barr</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 45</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>London <a name="citation110"></a><a href="#footnote110" +class="citation">[110]</a></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 38</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 20</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Tamworth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7 55</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Worcester</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 30</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Stourport</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 30</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 31</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Holyhead</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 23</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8 40</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Third G.J. Railway</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2 15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11 45</p> +</td> +<td><p>,,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fourth G.J. Railway</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6 45</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">,,</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>A second bag for London is despatched by the midnight Mail, +and arrives there in time for an afternoon delivery.</p> +<p>On Tuesdays and Fridays a Foreign Bag is forwarded to London +by a mail which leaves Birmingham at ½ past 12 at +noon.</p> +<p>The Letter Box closes at 6½ a.m., for the despatch of +the mails to Holyhead, Yarmouth, Worcester, Leamington, and +Stourport; at 8 p.m. for the despatch of the London and Bristol +mails, and half an hour previous to the departure of any of the +other mails.</p> +<p>The delivery of Letters from the office window commences at +½ past 7 a.m., with the letters brought by the Bristol and +London mails. Letters by the other mails are ready for +delivery in 30 Minutes after their arrival until 8 p.m., at which +period this <a name="page111"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +111</span>window is closed. At ½ past 8 p.m. it +opens again for the delivery of letters brought by the Worcester, +Stourport, Third Railway, and Holyhead mails, and it continues +open until 10 p.m.</p> +<p>There are two general deliveries by letter-carriers within the +town, the first commencing at ½ past 7 a.m., and the +second at about a ¼ after 5 p.m., except on Sundays, when +there is no afternoon delivery.</p> +<p>When any delay occurs in the arrival of the mails, a +corresponding delay will necessarily occur in the delivery.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">RECEIVING HOUSES +FOR GENERAL POST OFFICE.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Hewitt, Grocer, Hagley-row.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mr. J. White, 235, Bristol-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. E. Gunn, 1, Kenyon-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Miss Davies, Lower Terrace, Sand Pits</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. W. Drury, 30, Lancaster-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mrs. Wood 172, High Street, Deritend</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Mr. T. Ash, Druggist, Prospect-row.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>HACKNEY COACH FARES.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Drawn by two Horses</span>. Not +exceeding half a mile, 1s.—ditto one mile, 1s. +6d.—ditto one mile and a half, 2s.—ditto two miles, +2s. 6d.—ditto three miles, 3s. 6d.—ditto four miles, +5s.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Drawn by one Horse</span>.—Not +exceeding one mile, 1s.—ditto one mile and a half, 1s. +6d.—ditto two miles, 2s.—ditto two miles and a half, +2s. 6d.—ditto three miles, 3s.—ditto three miles and +a half, 3s. 6d.—ditto four miles, 4s.</p> +<p>Returning with the same Fare, half the foregoing charges.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Time</span>. Between the hours of +nine in the morning and twelve at night—twenty minutes, +6d.—forty minutes, 1s.—every twenty minutes above +forty, 6d., for being detained.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Time</span>. Between twelve at night +and six in the morning—double the foregoing fares.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Penalty</span>. Not exceeding twenty +shillings, for every offence, in case any driver shall refuse to +show a list of the above fares, if required.</p> +<h4>BANKERS,<br /> +WITH THE HOUSES WHICH THEY DRAW UPON IN LONDON.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Taylor and Lloyds, Dale-end.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hanburys, Taylors, & Lloyds.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Attwoods, Spooner & Co., New street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Spooner, Attwoods & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>J. L. Moilliet & Son, Cherry street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sir. J. W. Lubbock & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page112"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +112</span>Birmingham Banking Co., Bennett’s-hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Jones, Lloyd & Co.; & Glyn, Halifax & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Birmingham Borough Bank, Bull street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Prescott, Grote & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nat. Prov. Bank of Birm. Bennett’s-hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Hanburys, Taylors & Lloyds.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Birm. Town & Dist. Bank, Colmore-row.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barclay, Bevan & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Birm. & Mid. Banking Co., Union-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Williams, Deacon & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Branch Bank of England, Bennett’s-hill.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td colspan="2"><p>Savings’ Bank, Temple-row, open on +Monday and Thursday, from Twelve till Two o’clock.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>INNS.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>The Royal Hotel</p> +</td> +<td><p>Temple Row</p> +</td> +<td><p>The principal Family Houses.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>New Royal ditto</p> +</td> +<td><p>New-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Stork</p> +</td> +<td><p>Old Square</p> +</td> +<td><p>Family & Commercial</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Hen and Chickens</p> +</td> +<td><p>New-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Coach, Family, and Commercial.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Swan</p> +</td> +<td><p>High-street & New-st.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Albion</p> +</td> +<td><p>High-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Nelson</p> +</td> +<td><p>High-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Castle</p> +</td> +<td><p>High-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Saracen’s Head</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bull-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>St. George’s Tavern</p> +</td> +<td><p>High-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Union</p> +</td> +<td><p>Union-street</p> +</td> +<td><p>Chiefly Commercial.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>White Hart</p> +</td> +<td><p>Digbeth</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>George</p> +</td> +<td><p>Digbeth</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Woolpack</p> +</td> +<td><p>Moor-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>King’s Head</p> +</td> +<td><p>Worcester-street</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>COMMERCIAL BOARDING HOUSES.</h4> +<p>J. Jones, 12, Union Passage;</p> +<p>Misses E. & C. Puddicombe, (Private & Commercial,) 3, +Colmore-row;</p> +<p>J. Smith, 72, Newhall-street;</p> +<p>Glover, 118, New-street.</p> +<h4>OMNIBUS OFFICES.</h4> +<p>High-street; Bull-street, and Snow-hill.</p> +<h4>LIST OF NEWSPAPERS.—<i>July</i> 31, 1838.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Monday</i></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Aris’s +Gazette</span>—General and Commercial Advertising Paper, +established nearly a century. Average weekly circulation, +3,250 copies.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page113"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +113</span><i>Thursday</i></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">The Midland Counties’ +Herald</span>—A general business Paper, circulated to a +considerable extent, gratuitously, and containing commercial and +other information, but no political discussions. The +guaranteed circulation is 5,000 copies weekly.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">—</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Birmingham +Advertiser</span>—Tory. Circulation, 1,750 copies +weekly.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Saturday</i></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Birmingham +Journal</span>—Radical and intelligent. Circulation, +2,500 copies weekly.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>CANAL CONVEYANCE.</h4> +<p>Bird, G. R., & Son, Crescent; all parts.</p> +<p>Crowley, Hicklin, Batty, & Co., Crescent; all parts.</p> +<p>Danks, J., Broad-street; Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, and all +places on the eastern coast.</p> +<p>Danks, J., Great Charles-street; Bristol and the West of +England.</p> +<p>Greaves, Broad-street; Stratford-on-Avon, &c.</p> +<p>Pickford & Co., Fazeley-street and Worcester Wharfs; all +parts of the kingdom.</p> +<p>Partridge, W. & Co., No. 5, Warehouse, Worcester Wharf; +Worcester, Gloucester, and Bristol.</p> +<p>Partt, C., Jun., Crescent; Stratford-on-Avon.</p> +<p>Shipton & Co., Broad-street; Liverpool, Manchester, and +all parts of the North of England.</p> +<p>Smith, Great Charles-street.</p> +<p>Swain & Co., Friday Bridge; Hull, the North, and +Sheffield.</p> +<p>Sturland, Thomas, Crescent; Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, +and all parts of the North.</p> +<p>Southan, Worcester Wharf; Bristol and Wales.</p> +<p>Smith & Wilkinson, 161, Great Charles-street; Walsall.</p> +<p>Wheatcroft & Sons, Crescent; all parts North and East.</p> +<p>Whitehouse & Sons, Crescent, all parts.</p> +<p>Worthington & Co., Great Charles-street; Liverpool, +Manchester, and all parts of the North.</p> +<h4><a name="page114"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +114</span>WAGGON WAREHOUSES.</h4> +<p>John Shackel, 52, Dale-end; London and all parts.</p> +<p>G. Swain & Co., Friday Bridge; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, +Carlisle, Durham, York, Hull, &c.</p> +<p>Mead, 138, Moor-street; all parts.</p> +<p>W. Ashmore, Edgbaston-street; Bristol and the West, and all +parts of Norfolk.</p> +<p>Jolly, Bromsgrove-street; London.</p> +<p>Wheatcroft & Sons, Crescent; Leeds, Sheffield, and the +North, Bristol, and all parts of the West.</p> +<p>Haines & Co.’s Fly Vans, White Horse, Moor-street; +London and Bristol.</p> +<p>J. Butler, 88, Coleshill-street; Staffordshire and the +Potteries.</p> +<p>Wade & Co., Bordesley-street; Bristol and the West, +Sheffield, and the North.</p> +<p>Red Lion, Park-street, Digbeth; London, Bristol, and all +parts.</p> +<h4>PLACES OF NOTE ADJACENT TO BIRMINGHAM.</h4> +<p>The tourist will find the following places well deserving his +attention, and to which coaches are daily passing. The +figures denote the miles distant from Birmingham.</p> +<p>The Ruins of Kenilworth Castle, 18.</p> +<p>The Ruins of Dudley Castle, 9.</p> +<p>Warwick Castle, 20.</p> +<p>Guy’s Cliff, near Warwick, 21.</p> +<p>Lichfield Cathedral, 17.</p> +<p>Leamington Spa, 22.</p> +<p>Hagley Park, 12.</p> +<h3><a name="page115"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +115</span>LIVERPOOL</h3> +<h4>PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.</h4> +<p>Theatre Royal, East Williamson Square.</p> +<p>Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street.</p> +<p>The Liver Theatre, at the top of Church-street.</p> +<p>Queen’s Theatre, or Circus, Christian-street.</p> +<p>Sans Pareil, Great Charlotte-street.</p> +<h4>PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OBJECTS OF ATTRACTION.</h4> +<p>Botanical Gardens, Edge Lane; admittance by ticket, to be +obtained at all the Hotels.</p> +<p>Custom House, Excise, Dock Office, Post Office, under the same +roof, South Castle-street.</p> +<p>Cemetery, St. James’s, top of Duke-street.</p> +<p>— Necropolis, Low Hill.</p> +<p>Exchange, Castle-street.</p> +<p>House of Industry, Brownlow Hill.</p> +<p>Infirmary, Dover-street.</p> +<p>Lunatic Asylum, Brownlow Hill.</p> +<p>Pistol Gallery, Tarlton-street, Williamson Square.</p> +<p>Sessions House, situate at the West of the Exchange.</p> +<p>Statue of George the Third, bottom of Pembroke Place, in +London Road.</p> +<p>Telegraph, bottom of Chapel-street. May be visited on +application to Lieut. Watson, at the Office.</p> +<p>Town Hall, Castle-street.</p> +<p>Wellington Rooms, Great Orford-street.</p> +<p>Zoological Gardens; an order, which may be obtained at any of +the respectable Hotels, will, on the payment of a shilling, admit +a stranger.</p> +<h4><a name="page116"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +116</span>BATHS.</h4> +<p>The New Baths, West side of St. George’s Dock.</p> +<p>Whitlaw’s Vapour Baths, Renshaw-street.</p> +<p>Sadler’s Baths, Hanover-street.</p> +<p>The Floating Bath, Prince’s Parade.</p> +<h4>THE DOCKS.</h4> +<p>Clarence Dock, for steam packets.</p> +<p>Prince’s Dock, American ships.</p> +<p>George’s Dock, in which is moored the Floating Church, +for the convenience of seamen.</p> +<p>The King’s Dock; vessels from Virginia and other ports, +laden with tobacco.</p> +<p>The Waterloo Dock, Victoria Dock, and Trafalgar Dock, +communicate with each other.</p> +<p>Canning Dock; vessels from the Northern ports, and in the +coasting trade.</p> +<p>Salt-house Dock, for ships in the Levant and Irish trade.</p> +<p>Duke of Bridgewater’s Dock, for boats called flats, in +the canal trade.</p> +<p>Queen’s Dock, for timber ships from America and the +Baltic.</p> +<p>Brunswick Dock, vessels laden with timber.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Graving Docks</span>. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, +communicate with the Canning Dock; Nos. 4, 5, and 6, lie between +the Queen’s Dock and the river; two Graving Docks are +attached to the Brunswick Dock.</p> +<h4>THE MARKETS.</h4> +<p>St. John’s Market, Great Charlotte-street.</p> +<p>New Fish Market, opposite St. John’s Market.</p> +<p>The North Market, Scotland-street.</p> +<p>St. James’s Market, Great George-street.</p> +<p>Islington Market, top of Shaw’s Row.</p> +<p>Cattle Market, three miles on the London Road.</p> +<p>Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street.</p> +<h4>LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.</h4> +<p>The Royal Institutions, Colquitt-street.</p> +<p><a name="page117"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +117</span>Philosophical and Literary Society; meetings held at +the Royal Institution.</p> +<p>Apothecaries’ Hall, Colquitt-street.</p> +<p>Mechanics’ Institution, Mount-street.</p> +<p>Athenæum, Church-street.</p> +<p>Lyceum, Bold-street.</p> +<p>Apprentices’ (Male and Female) Library, School Lane.</p> +<p>Law Library, Clarendon Buildings.</p> +<p>Union News Room, Duke-street.</p> +<h4>PUBLIC CHARITIES.</h4> +<p>Alms Houses, St. Mary’s Lane.</p> +<p>Blue Coat Hospital, School Lane.</p> +<p>Blind Asylum, London Road.</p> +<p>Bethel Union Ship, King’s Dock.</p> +<p>Charity Institution House, Salter-street.</p> +<p>Charity, (the Ladies’,) for Relief of Women in +Childbed.</p> +<p>Dispensaries; Vauxhall Road and Upper Parliament-street.</p> +<p>Female School of Industry, Heathfield-street.</p> +<p>Female Penitentiary, Crabtree Lane.</p> +<p>House of Recovery, Workhouse.</p> +<p>Infirmary, Brownlow-street.</p> +<p>Institution for Diseases of the Ear, Duke-street.</p> +<p>Infant Schools, numerous.</p> +<p>Lunatic Asylum, Ashton-street, Brownlow Hill.</p> +<p>Marine Society, Mariners’ Church.</p> +<p>Marine Humane Society.</p> +<p>Mariner’s Church Society, Ship in St. George’s +Dock.</p> +<p>Naval Bible Society, Mariners’ Church.</p> +<p>Ophthalmic Institution, Slater’s Court.</p> +<p>Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, +Ranelagh-street.</p> +<p>Society for bettering the Condition of the Poor, Savings Bank, +Bold-street.</p> +<p>Stranger’s Friend Society.</p> +<p>School for the Deaf and Dumb, Wood-street.</p> +<p>Theatrical Fund, Theatre Royal Office.</p> +<p>Welsh Charitable Society, Russell Place.</p> +<h4><a name="page118"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +118</span>PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP.</h4> +<p><i>Church of England</i>—twenty-four in number; the most +worthy of notice being, St. Paul’s, St. Paul’s +Square; St. George’s, Lord-street; St. Peter’s, +Church-street; St. Luke’s, Bold-street; St. +Nicholas’, Chapel-street; St. Catherine’s, +Abercromby-square; The Blind Asylum, Duncan-street East.</p> +<p><i>Roman Catholics</i>—St. Mary’s, Lumber-street; +St. Patrick’s, Toxteth Park; St. Nicholas’, +Blake-street; St. Peter’s, Seal-street; St. +Anthony’s, Scotland-road.</p> +<p><i>Scotch Churches</i>—St. Andrew’s Church, +Rodney-street; Oldham-street Church; Scotch Baptist Church, +Hunter-street; Scotch Secession Church, Mount Pleasant, and +Russell-street.</p> +<p><i>Unitarians</i>—two in number; one in Paradise-street, +and one in Renshaw-street.</p> +<p><i>Independents</i>—Bethesda, Duncan-street, +London-road; Toxteth Park Chapel; Great Crosshall-street Chapel; +Renshaw-street Chapel; Gloucester-street Chapel; Great +George-street Chapel.</p> +<p><i>Baptists</i>—Lime-street; Great Crosshall-street; +Russell-street; Cockspur-street; Comus-street; Byrom-street.</p> +<p><i>Methodists</i>—Leeds-street; Pitt-street; Mount +Pleasant; Stanhope-street; Moss-street; London-road; and +Bend’s Garden Chapel.</p> +<p><i>Friends’ Meeting House</i>, Hunter-street.</p> +<p><i>Jew’s Synagogue</i>, Seel-street.</p> +<h4>TIME OF STARTING BY THE RAILROAD.</h4> +<p>Travelling by the <i>Liverpool and Manchester Railway</i>, +1838.—The following are the Times of Departure both from +Lime-street Station, Liverpool, and from Liverpool Road Station, +Manchester.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">First Class</span>—Seven, nine, +eleven, two, five, and seven o’clock.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Second Class</span>—Quarter past +seven, ten, twelve, three, half-past five, and seven +o’clock, stopping only at Newton.</p> +<p>Except on Tuesdays and Saturdays, when the Evening Second +Class Train from Manchester starts at six, instead of half-past +five o’clock.</p> +<p><a name="page119"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 119</span><span +class="smcap">On Sundays</span>—First Class, eight in the +morning, and five in the evening.—Second Class, seven in +the morning and half-past five in the evening.</p> +<h4>FARES.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>By First Class Train—Four Inside—Royal +Mail</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Ditto—Six Inside—Glass +Coach</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>By 2nd. Class Train—Glass Coaches</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Ditto—Open Carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Charge for the conveyance of Four-wheeled Carriages</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Ditto Two-wheeled ditto</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">Horses</span>—For one horse +10s.—two horses 18s.—three horses 22s.</p> +<p>N.B.—All Horses must be embarked at the Company’s +Station, Edge Hill, Wavertree Lane, unless accompanying Carriages +to which they belong; in which case they may be embarked at +Lime-street.</p> +<h4>LUGGAGE.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Notice</span>.—To prevent loss or +mistake of Luggage.—Passengers are requested to keep charge +of their small Packages, by placing them under their seats +instead of on the roof of the coach.—The weight allowed to +each passenger is 60 lbs., beyond which a charge will be made at +the rate of 3s. per cwt.</p> +<h4>LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO WIGAN.</h4> +<p>By 1st Class Train, 7 a.m.—2nd Class Trains, 10, 12, +a.m., 5½ p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Sundays</span>.—By the Second Class +Trains, 7 a.m., and 5½ p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">fares</span>.—From Liverpool or +Manchester, 1st. Class. 5s.; 2nd Class 3s. 6d.</p> +<h4>LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BOLTON.</h4> +<p>By 1st Class Train, 9 a.m.—2nd Class Trains, 7¼, +12 a.m., 5½ p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Sundays</span>.—By the Second Class +Trains, 7 a.m., 5½ p.m.</p> +<p>FARES.—From Liverpool, Inside, 5s. 6d., Outside, 4s.; +and from<br /> +,, Manchester, ,, 2s. 6d. ,, and 2s.</p> +<h4><a name="page120"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +120</span>LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO ST. HELEN’S.</h4> +<p>By the Second Class Trains, 7¼, 10, 12, a.m.; 3, and +5½, p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Sundays</span>.—By the Second Class +Trains, 7, a.m., and 5½, p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Fares</span>.—From +Liverpool—Inside, 2s. 6d. Outside, 2s.; and from +Manchester, 3s. 6d. and 2s. 6d.</p> +<h4>LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO RUNCORN GAP.</h4> +<p>By the Second Class Trains, 7¼, am., and 3, p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Sundays</span>.—By the Second Class +Trains, 7, a.m., and 5½, p.m.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Fares</span>.—From +Liverpool—Inside, 3s. Outside, 2s. 6d.; and from +Manchester, 4s. and 3s.</p> +<h4>INNS.</h4> +<p>Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh-street; Albion, Ranelagh-street; +Angel, Dale-street; Blue Bell, London Road; Bull, Clayton Square; +Commercial, Dale-street; Castle Hotel, Clayton Square; Feathers, +Clayton Square; George Inn, Dale-street; Grecian Hotel, +Dale-street; King William, Williamson Square; King’s Arms, +Castle-street; Neptune, Clayton Square; Royal, Dale-street; +Saracen’s Head Inn, Dale-street; Star and Garter Tavern, +Paradise-street; Union Hotel, Clayton Square; Waterloo, +Ranelagh-street; Wellington, Dale-street; York, Williamson +Square.</p> +<h4>FOREIGN PACKETS.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">New York</span>, on the 1st and 16th of +every month, Baring Brothers and Co.; 8th, Thomas and Joseph +Sands and Co.; 16th, W. and J. Brown and Co.; and 24th, Wildes, +Pickersgill, and Co.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Boston</span>, on the 5th and 20th of each +month during the spring and fall of the year, at other times +occasionally, Maury, Latham and Co., and Baring Brothers and +Co.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Philadelphia</span>, on the 8th of every +month, and at stated periods, W. and J. Brown and Co.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Calcutta</span> direct, the 20th of each +month, W. and J. Tyrer, Old Churchyard.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Rio De Janeiro</span>, on the 1st and 16th +of every month, W. and J. Tyrer; J. Holliwell; and Ashley +Brothers.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Lisbon</span>, on the let of every month, +J. Bibby and Co., Duke’s <a name="page121"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 121</span>Place; on the 10th of every month, +Vianna and Jones; and on the 20th of every month, Cotesworth and +Smith.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Genoa</span> and <span +class="smcap">Leghorn</span>, on the 1st of every month, J. Bibby +and Co., Duke’s Place; and on the 16th, Vianna and Jones, +Chapel-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Genoa</span> and <span +class="smcap">Leghorn</span>, a conveyance once a month, John +Rothwell, 2, Liver-court, South Castle-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Messino</span> and <span +class="smcap">Palermo</span>, once a month, John Rothwell, 2, +Liver-court, South Castle-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Bahia</span>.—A regular line of +Packets sails at periods, as stated in the newspapers, Cotesworth +and Smith; W. and J. Tyrer; John Holliwell; Kers, Imrie and Co., +and R. Tanton.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Oporto</span>, every three weeks, Geo. +Highfield, Oldhall-street; Thos. Martin, Salthouse Dock; Ormerod, +Heyworth, and Co., Water-street; J. Bibby and Co.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Monte Video</span> and <span +class="smcap">Buenos Ayres</span>.—Line of Packets to sail +at stated periods, which are duly announced through the +newspapers, W. and J. Tyrer, and Ashley Brothers.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Havannah</span>, on the 5th of every month +punctually. Ashley Brothers.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Pernambuco</span>.—A line of Packets +sails at periods which are duly announced through the newspapers, +Cotesworth and Smith; W. and J. Tyrer; John Holliwell; Kers, +Imrie and Co.; R. Tanton, and Geo. Highfield.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">West Coast of South +America</span>.—Valparaiso every six weeks; Arica, Islay, +and Lima, every four months; Lima direct every twelve weeks, W. +and J. Tyrer; Ashley Brothers; and James Aikin.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">St. Thomas</span>.—Line of Packets +to sail at stated periods, which are announced through the +newspapers, Kers, Imrie, and Tomlinson.</p> +<h4>STEAM NAVIGATION.<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">ON THE RIVER.</span></h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Eastham</span>.—The William Stanley, +Sir Thomas Stanley, and Lady Stanley, five times a +day.—Dodd’s Chester and Eastham Packet House, 32, +James-street.</p> +<p><a name="page122"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 122</span><span +class="smcap">Runcorn</span> and <span class="smcap">Western +Point</span>, a steam packet every day. Office, No. 19, +Mann’s Island.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Runcorn</span>.—The Old Quay or +Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company now conduct their vessels to +and from Runcorn by steam power, and speed vessels are sent daily +to and from Manchester, without stoppage, with goods requiring +despatch. Agent, William Guyton, Manchester Dock.</p> +<p>To <span class="smcap">Rock Ferry</span>, <span +class="smcap">Birkenhead</span>, <span class="smcap">Monk’s +Ferry</span>, and <span class="smcap">Woodside</span>, packets +are plying every half hour from George’s Dock, Pierhead; to +<span class="smcap">Seacombe</span>, from the south end of the +Prince’s Parade; and to <span class="smcap">Egremont +Ferry</span> and <span class="smcap">New Brighton</span>, from +the Pierhead, north of George’s Dock Basin.</p> +<h4>IRELAND, &c.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Ardglass</span> and <span +class="smcap">Strangford Lough</span>.—The Victoria, every +Tuesday. Crozier and Co., Agents, 13, Goree Piazzas.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Belfast</span>. The City of Dublin Steam +Packet Company sail a vessel every Wednesday. John +M‘Cammon, 27, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Belfast</span>.—The Falcon and +Corsair, every Monday and Friday. Lanktrys and Co., 30, +Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Cork</span>, &c.—The St. George +Steam Packet Company’s Packets sail regularly to Cork, +Waterford, Dundalk, Newry, and Beaumaris; and between Dublin and +Glasgow; Dublin and Bristol; Dublin and Cork; Cork and Bristol; +London, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Falmouth, and Cork; London and +Exeter; London and Boston; London and Stockton; Hull and Leith; +Hull and Hamburgh; Hull and Rotterdam; and Lubeck and +Stockholm. J. R. Pim, Agent, 21, Water-street, and Clarence +Dock.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Cork</span>.—The John M‘Adam, +every Thursday. J. A. and R. Forshaw, 6, Goree Piazzas.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Drogheda</span>.—The Green Isle, +Town of Drogheda, Fair Trader, Irishman, and Grana Uile, sail +four times a week. W. Splaine, 20, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dublin</span>.—Her Majesty’s +packets sail every afternoon, at five o’clock, (without +reference to the time of high water,) with the <a +name="page123"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 123</span>mail and +passengers. Captain Chappell, R. N., Agent, 33, +Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dublin</span>.—The City of Dublin +Steam Packet Company’s vessels, the Hibernia, City of +Dublin, Shamrock, Commerce, Britannia, Liffey, Leeds, Birmingham, +Mersey, Nottingham, Ballinasloe, Kingstown, Huskisson, City +of Limerick, Athlone, Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria, Royal +William, and Royal Adelaide, sail daily. Samuel Perry, 27, +Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Londonderry</span>.—The Isabella +Napier sails every Tuesday, and the Robert Napier every +Friday. J. R. Pim, Agent, 21, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Newry</span>.—George the +Fourth. J. R. Pim, Agent, 21, Water-st.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Port Rush</span> and <span +class="smcap">Larne</span>.—The Coleraine, every +Saturday. J. A. and R. Forshaw, 6, Goree Piazzas.</p> +<h4>TO THE ISLE OF MAN, SCOTLAND, &c.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Douglas</span>.—The Queen of the +Isle and the Mona’s Isle sail daily during the summer, and +twice a week in the winter, with the mail, goods, and +passengers. Moore and Christian, Agents, 23, +Redcross-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Douglas</span>.—The Monarch sails +three times a week during the summer. T. Blackburn, 9, +Dale-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Glasgow</span>.—The Unicorn, Eagle, +Manchester, and Ailsa Craig sail three times a week, with goods +and passengers. Martin and Co., 34, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Glasgow</span> direct.—The Vulcan, +City of Glasgow, and Commodore, sail each once a week. +David M‘Iver and Co., 34, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dumfries</span> and <span +class="smcap">Whitehaven</span>.—The Nithsdale, once a +week, Robert Sproat, 20, Water-street.</p> +<h4>NORTH WALES.</h4> +<p>The Air, with goods and passengers, for Beaumaris, Bangor, and +Carnarvon. J. R. Pim, Agent, 21, Water-street, and Clarence +Dock.</p> +<p>The Countess of Glasgow sails from George’s Dock, +Pierhead, for Rhyl, Voryd, Abergele, &c., every Tuesday, +Thursday, and Saturday. Joseph Humphries, 33, +Water-street.</p> +<p><a name="page124"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 124</span>The +St. Mungo and Snowdon, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, for +Rhyl, Rhydland, and Abergele. St. Mungo’s Office, 23, +Water-street; Snowdon’s Office, 33, Water-street.</p> +<p>The Conway Castle, every Wednesday and Saturday, during the +winter months, for Conway. J. T. Raines and Co., 19, +James-street.</p> +<h4>COASTWISE.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Carlisle</span> and <span +class="smcap">Annan</span>.—The Newcastle sails every +Tuesday and Thursday. H. Halton, 21, Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Carlisle</span> and <span +class="smcap">Annan</span>.—The City of Carlisle and Royal +Victoria three times a week. J. D. Thomson, Agent, 13, +Water-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Lancaster.</span>—The John +O’Gaunt. John Hadwen, Atherton’s Buildings, +Dale-street.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Whitehaven</span>.—Steam packets +sail three times a week during the summer months, and twice a +week during the winter months, with passengers and goods. +W. Dowson, Agent, 8, Goree Piazzas.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Workington</span> and <span +class="smcap">Maryport</span>.—The Union sails once a week +during the winter, and twice a week during the summer +months. J. D. Thomson, Agent, 13, Water-street.</p> +<h4>POST OFFICE.</h4> +<p><span class="smcap">Delivery of Letters</span>.—The +First Delivery commences at 8 a.m., and the Office continues open +till the arrival of the London Mail, (per Grand Junction +Railway,) 10.55 a.m. The letters comprised in this delivery +are those of the over-night Birmingham Mail (with a bag from +Manchester and a foreign bag from London); the Holyhead and +Carlisle Mails (with bags from Edinburgh and Glasgow); and the +Dublin Packet.</p> +<p>2nd <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +9 a.m., with the first Manchester Mail per Railway; bringing also +bags from Rochdale, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds, and York.</p> +<p>3rd <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +10.45 a.m., and includes the letters by the 2nd Manchester Mail +per Railway, with a bag from Newton.</p> +<p><a name="page125"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 125</span>4th +<span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about 12 +noon, (and continues until about 3.40 p.m.,) in which are +included bags from Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Penkridge, +Stafford, Newcastle, Nantwich, Middlewich, Northwich, Preston +Brook, Warrington, Eccleshall, Stone, Towcester, Northampton, +London, Bristol, Exeter, Falmouth; and the letters from Portugal, +North and South America, and the West Indies, are also included +in this delivery.</p> +<p>5th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +¼ past 1, p.m., and includes the letters brought by the +Bristol Mail.</p> +<p>6th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +4 p.m., and includes letters brought by the 3rd Manchester Mail, +per Railway.</p> +<p>7th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +4.50 p.m., and includes bags from Birmingham, Wolverhampton, +Stafford, Warrington, Prescot.</p> +<p>8th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences ten +minutes past 6 p.m., with the letters by the Lancaster Mail, from +Ormskirk and Maghull.</p> +<p>9th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences at +¼ past 7, p.m. It includes the letters of the 4th +Manchester Mail, per Railway, with Bags from York and Leeds.</p> +<p>10th <span class="smcap">Delivery</span>—Commences about +7.30 p.m. and includes bags from Birmingham, Walsall, +Wolverhampton, Penkridge, Stafford, Newcastle, Nantwich, +Middlewich, Northwich, Preston Brook, Warrington, and +Prescot.</p> +<p><i>The Delivery closes finally at 9 p.m.</i>; <i>on Sundays at +8 p.m.</i></p> +<p>There are Three Deliveries within the Town by Letter Carriers, +every day (except Sunday); the first delivery to commence about +8, a.m.; the second about 12; the third about 5, p.m. On +Sundays, only the first, at 8, a.m.</p> +<p>When any delay occurs in the arrival of the Mails, a +corresponding delay will, of course, occur in the delivery.</p> +<p>The office is closed on Sundays from 9, a.m., until 1.30, +p.m., and finally at 8, p.m.</p> +<h4><a name="page126"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +126</span>DESPATCH OF LETTERS.</h4> +<p>The following are the hours at which the letter-box is closed +for making up the several Mails, and at which each mail is +despatched:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Box closes at</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">Despatched at</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">H. M.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center">H. M.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">First Grand +Junction</span>.—Bags made up for Warrington, +Preston-Brook, Northwich, Middlewich, Nantwich, Congleton, Market +Drayton, Stafford, Penkridge, Wolverhampton, Walsall, and +Birmingham; and on Tuesdays and Fridays a Foreign Bag to +London. The postage of Foreign Letters can be paid from +5.30 to 6 a.m., and up to 9 o’clock the previous +evening.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.0 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.20 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">First Manchester +Mail</span>.—Bags for Manchester, Bolton, Rochdale, Leeds, +and York.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.30 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.50 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Chester Mail</span>.—For Neston, +Parkgate, and Chester.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7.30 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8.05 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Lancaster Mail</span>.—For +Maghull, Ormskirk and Southport.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8.0 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8.15 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Second Manchester Mail</span>.—A +bag for Prescot, and (per Railway to Newton) bags for Newton, +Wigan, Chorley, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, +and Manchester.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8.30 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8.50 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Second Grand +Junction</span>.—Bags for Warrington, Stafford, +Wolverhampton, and Birmingham.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11.0 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11.20 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Third Manchester +Mail</span>.—Blackburn, Colne, Bury, and Manchester.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11.30 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11.50 a.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Penny Posts</span>.—For +Birkenhead, Upton, Seacombe, New Brighton, Crosby, Bootle, +Walton, West Derby, Old Swan, Woolton, and Wavertree.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11.0 a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12.45 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Fourth Manchester +Mail</span>.—Manchester.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1.30 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1.50 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Third Grand +Junction</span>.—Bags for Prescot, Warrington, +Preston-Brook, Northwich, Middlewich, Nantwich, Newcastle, +Eccleshall, Stone, Stafford, Penkridge, Wolverhampton, Walsall, +Birmingham, Towcester, Northampton, London, and Bristol; and +letters for Portugal, North and South America, and the West +Indies. The letters for London sent by this despatch will +be included in the first delivery there the following +morning.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1.45 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3.20 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page127"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +127</span><span class="smcap">Carlisle Mail</span>.—For +Ormskirk, Preston, Chorley, Bury, Blackburn, Haslingden, +Lancaster, Westmoreland, Cumberland, and all Scotland.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.30 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Fifth Manchester and the York +Mails</span>.—For Manchester, Rochdale, and the Counties of +York, Lincoln, and Durham (per Railway).</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.50 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Bristol Mail</span>.—Chester, +South Wales, and Bristol.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Dublin Mail Packet</span>.—For +Ireland.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.30 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Bolton Mail</span>.—For +Bolton.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4.30 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Holyhead Mail</span>.—For +Birkenhead, New Ferry, Eastham, Chester, North Wales.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.30 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Fourth Grand +Junction</span>.—Bags for Manchester, Warrington, Stafford, +Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and London. The letters for +London sent by this despatch will be delivered there about 11 +a.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.0 p.m.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6.20 p.m.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><span class="smcap">India</span>.—Letters to and from +the East Indies are regularly forwarded by ships. The +postage must be paid when posted.</p> +<p>The Rate outward is two-pence per package under three ounces, +and one shilling per ounce above that weight.</p> +<p>Letters conveyed outward in sealed bags, are charged with 8d., +<i>single</i>, if sent by ship from the port at which they are +posted; but if sent from any inland town, or to another port, +1s., which must be paid when posted.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Foreign Letters</span>.—No letters +for Foreign parts, except British America, the British West India +Islands, and France, can be forwarded, unless postage be first +paid; in default, they are sent to the General Post Office, +London, opened, and returned back to the writers.</p> +<h4>FOREIGN POST DAYS, at 3.20 <span +class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></h4> +<p>For Demerara, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands, 1st and 15th +day in every month; North America and the Bahamas, the first +Wednesday in every month.</p> +<p>For Carthagena, Mexico, Cuba, Honduras, and Havannah, 15th of +every month.</p> +<p>For Portugal, every Friday.</p> +<p>For South America, La Guara, Madeira, Gibraltar, and the +Mediterranean, the first day of every month.</p> +<h4><a name="page128"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +128</span>HACKNEY COACH FARES,</h4> +<p><i>Which include a reasonable quantity of Luggage</i>.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Not exceeding 1,000 yards</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Exceeding 1,000 yards, and not exceeding 1,700</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>And for each 700 yards, or any intermediate distance</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Car +Fares</span>.—Two thirds of the above Fares.</p> +<p>N.B.—Carriages with two horses and two wheels, or one +horse and two wheels, or one horse and four wheels, are +considered cars. If a coach or car be detained above ten +minutes, to be allowed 6d. for every ten minutes detained.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Coach hired by the day</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">18</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ditto by the hour, first hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ditto, and for every subsequent hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Car hired by the day</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">12</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ditto by the hour, first hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Ditto, for every subsequent hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Double fares to be paid after Twelve o’clock at night, +except on public ball nights; then at such public balls, One +o’clock.</p> +<p>The driver has the option to be paid either time or +distance.</p> +<h4>BANKERS.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><i>Liverpool Bankers</i>.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><i>Correspondents in +London</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Moss and Co., Dale-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barclay and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A. Heywood, Sons and Co., Brunswick-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Denison and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Leyland and Co., 7, King-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Masterman and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Central Bank of England, 12, Temple-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Esdaile and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Borough Bank, Water-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Glyn and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Co., 43, +Castle-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Smith, Payne, and Smith.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>I. Barned and Co., Lord-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Sir C. Price, Marryatt & Co. and Bult, Son, and +Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Liverpool Commercial Bank, High-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Williams, Deacon, and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bank of Liverpool, Water-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Glyn and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Branch Bank of England, 55, Hanover-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bank of England.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page129"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +129</span>Phœnix Bank, Dale-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Grote, Prescott, and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Commercial Bank of England, Water-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barnet, Hoare, and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Liverpool United Trades’ Bank, South +Castle-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Currie, Raikes, and Co., 29, Cornhill.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Albion Bank, North John-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Grote, Prescott, and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Union Bank, Water-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Cunliffes and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>North and South Wales Bank.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Robarts and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Royal Bank, Water-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Robarts and Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>LIST OF NEWSPAPERS.</h4> +<p>Monday—<span class="smcap">Albion</span>—Whig.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Advertiser</span>—Commercial.</p> +<p>Tuesday—<span class="smcap">Liverpool +Standard</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Mail</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Times</span>—Whig.</p> +<p>Wednesday—<span +class="smcap">Courier</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Telegraph</span>—Whig.</p> +<p>Thursday—<span class="smcap">Gore’s General +Advertiser</span>—Commercial.</p> +<p> ,, —<span class="smcap">Liverpool +Mail</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p>Friday—<span +class="smcap">Mercury</span>—Radical.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Standard</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p>Saturday—<span +class="smcap">Mail</span>—Conservative.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Chronicle</span>—Whig.</p> +<p> ,, —<span +class="smcap">Journal</span>—Radical.</p> +<h3><a name="page130"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +130</span>MANCHESTER.</h3> +<h4>MANUFACTORIES.</h4> +<p>The great centre of the cotton manufacture, Manchester, will +be an object of curiosity to the stranger on this account; and he +will naturally be desirous to view some of the processes and the +operations of those mighty agents, steam and machinery, which +have added so much to the real wealth and glory of England.</p> +<p>With suitable introductions, the inquiring visiter may visit +the following establishments, where he cannot fail to be +astonished at the vast scale on which the staple manufactures are +conducted; and the remarkable order, arrangement, and cleanliness +maintained through all their departments. The immense +spinning mills of Messrs. McConnel & Co., Henry-street, +Ancoats, will furnish to the visiter an inspection of the various +processes to which the raw cotton is subjected in the course of +its manufacture into twist, or thread for weaving.</p> +<p>In the large manufactory of the Oxford-road twist company, in +Oxford-road, he would see the processes of weaving by means of +the steam loom.</p> +<p>In the patent card manufactory of Mr. J. C. Dyer, +Stone-street, London-road, he would observe the very curious mode +of manufacturing the cards used for teasing or carding the +cotton; and in the large establishments of Messrs. Sharp, +Roberts, & Co., machinists and engineers, Faulkner-street, he +would see the various manufactures of steam engines, both +stationary and locomotive, boilers, steam looms, and every other +piece of machinery required for manufacturing purposes in this +part of the kingdom.</p> +<p>In another branch of manufacture, that of silk, which is of +growing importance and extent in Manchester, the visiter would be +gratified by an inspection of the silk mill of Messrs. Royle and +Crompton, Great Bridgewater-street.</p> +<h4><a name="page131"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +131</span>PUBLIC BUILDINGS, LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC +INSTITUTIONS.</h4> +<p>The Exchange and News Room, (now undergoing alteration and +extension, for which end, the Post Office, now at the back of the +building, is to be removed,) is situated at the foot of +Market-street. It is a semi-circular building, with stone +front, and the large room contains a full length portrait of +Colonel Stanley, many years member for the county.</p> +<p>The Town Hall, in King-street, is a fine structure, founded in +1822; by application to the porter, the stranger will obtain +admittance to the hall or “large room,” which is very +handsomely decorated with fresco paintings, and by rich +mouldings, friezes, from the Elgin marbles, &c.</p> +<p>The Royal Institution in Mosley-street is open twice every +year, during the exhibitions of paintings; one being limited to +those of old masters and deceased artists; the other restricted +to those of modern and living artists. The entrance hall +and sculpture gallery are worth notice. Admission a +shilling.</p> +<p>Nearly adjoining, at the back of the Royal Institution, is the +Manchester Athenæum, now in process of erection, the +members of which at present occupy the lower wing of the Royal +Institution, with an entrance in Bond-street. The front of +the Athenæum is also in Bond-street, and when it is +finished the two buildings will form a very pleasing proof of the +architectural resources of Mr. Barry, the architect of the two +new houses of parliament.</p> +<p>The Manchester Mechanics’ Institution is a spacious +brick edifice in Cooper-street, with large lecture theatre, good +library, and commodious class rooms. To the Athenæum +and the Mechanics’ Institution there is no difficulty of +access.</p> +<p>The Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, one of +the oldest and most celebrated of provincial institutions, having +been founded in 1781, has distinguished itself by its annual +volumes of published memoirs, and is now distinguished in the +person of its President, the venerable Dr. Dalton. Its Hall +is in George-street, nearly opposite St. James’s Church; +but as the sittings of the society are not daily, little +information can be given <a name="page132"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 132</span>as to the admission of +strangers. Scientific men would doubtless find no +difficulty in obtaining an introduction.</p> +<p>The Museum and Hall of the Natural History Society, in +Peter-street, can only be entered on presenting an order from a +subscriber. The Museum is very rich in almost every +description of natural history; we believe in ornithology it is +particularly so; its collection of British birds is said to be +unequalled, and its entomological department is becoming +exceedingly extensive.</p> +<p>The Concert Hall, at the top of Lower Mosley-street, is an +elegant building, especially in the interior; having a neat stone +front.</p> +<p>In Mosley-street are the Assembly and Billiard Rooms, with a +plain and somewhat dingy exterior; but the Ball Rooms are +spacious and elegant.</p> +<p>Opposite is the Portico, so called from its large Ionic +portico fronting the street,—a Subscription Library and +News Room.—There are two other Subscription Libraries in +the upper floors of the Exchange, and a fourth in Newall’s +Buildings, Market street, all of considerable extent.</p> +<p>In an old low building, (north of the Collegiate Church) to +which entrance is had by a small gate adjoining the Palatine +Buildings, Hunt’s Bank, the stranger will find what will +amply repay even a hurried and hasty visit. This building +is named the College; in it are educated a number of boys who, +from their dress, are distinguished as the Blue Coat Boys. +In the upper floor of the building is a long corridor, traversing +three sides of the building, two of which are converted into a +library, the books generally being deposited in bays, or enclosed +recesses, and locked up. This library, which contains +upwards of 20,000 volumes, was founded by Humphrey Cheetham, who +lived in the 17th century, and is wholly free; but the books are +not to be removed from the place. There is a spacious +reading room at the further extremity of the library, where the +student may take his worm-eaten folio, and seating himself in an +old carved chair, may easily transport himself in fancy, two +centuries back; for the room is of oak, panelled and carved, with +old tables, chairs, and other furniture corresponding to the +period; and several old pictures of the founder and other +worthies. In the library, above the books, <a +name="page133"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 133</span>are +suspended various specimens of stuffed reptiles, and other +objects, which are shown to the visiter by one of the blue coat +boys, for a small gratuity; the chief curiosity in the exhibition +being the broad Lancashire dialect, and strange mode of +description, given by the little showman.</p> +<p>To the Botanic Garden, Old Trafford, Stretford Road, (to which +omnibuses convey visiters to Market-street,) the admission is by +an order from a member or subscriber; the secretary is Mr. S. E. +Cottam, Brazennose-street. The garden covers 17 acres, and +contains in its noble conservatories, some of the rarest and +finest exotics and tropical plants to be seen in the kingdom.</p> +<p>The Zoological Gardens are about a mile and a half on the new +Bury road, whither the stranger can be conveyed by omnibus from +Market-street. One shilling procures admission to these +gardens, which are as extensive as those in Surrey, covering 15 +acres of ground, and, although of recent foundation, they already +contain many very fine and rare animals, including a rhinoceros, +elephant, lion, tigers, &c., and a very good collection of +hardy plants.</p> +<h4>PLACES OF WORSHIP.</h4> +<p><i>The Collegiate Church</i>.—The parish church of +Manchester, and generally called “The Old Church” by +the inhabitants, is within a short distance of the Exchange, at +the foot of Market-street, whence the stranger, by passing +through the Market Place and Old Millgate, will find himself at +the principal gateway to the church-yard, which is always +open. The church is a fine old edifice; in the choir are +some curious carvings in wood; the canopies for the stalls show +the taste of the artist in tracery. The altar piece is a +relic of the loom,—a faded pictorial representation on +tapestry, of which the colours and forms are now obscured by the +touch of time. There are in the church several enclosed +chapels; amongst others, one of the Earls of Derby. In the +south transept, near the entrance to the registry, is the spot +where, for a few short weeks, rested the remains of the gifted +and hapless Malibran,—since removed to the church of +Lacken, near Brussels. Passing thence to the registry, is a +mural monument, in white <a name="page134"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 134</span>marble, by Chantrey. Adjoining +the registry is the chapter-house,—the ecclesiastical +government of the parish being vested in a warden, and four +fellows constitute the chapter, and who will probably be +appointed dean and canons, when the see of Manchester is +erected. The parish of Manchester is of great extent, +including upwards of thirty townships.</p> +<p>Of the other churches in the town our limits admit but of a +brief notice.</p> +<p><i>St. Ann’s</i>, in St. Ann’s Square, is an +example of the anomalies of some ancient parishes,—it +forms, with its grave-yard, a parish of itself; and, we believe, +though standing in the very heart of Manchester, it counts but +one house in its parish.</p> +<p><i>St. Mary’s</i>, in St. Mary’s Street, +Deansgate, has a very fine spire, surmounted by a ball. +This was the scene of a feat of one of the Woottons, the steeple +climbers, who, by some simple apparatus, as ropes, climbed up the +giddy height, and removed the old ball and cross, which had been +damaged by lightning.</p> +<p><i>St. Paul’s</i>, in Turner-street, has no +architectural pretensions, or other claims to special notice.</p> +<p><i>St. John’s</i>, St. John’s Street, Deansgate, +is a plain, brick edifice, once the scene of the pastoral labours +of the Rev. John Clowes, a disciple of Emanuel Swedenborg.</p> +<p><i>St. James’s</i>, St. James’s Street, is a brick +building.</p> +<p><i>St. Peter’s</i>, at the foot of Mosley-street, a +handsome stone edifice, resembling a Grecian temple.</p> +<p><i>St. Michael’s</i>, Angel-street, <i>St. +Clement’s</i>, Lever-street, and <i>St. George’s</i>, +St. George’s Road, have little to tempt the stranger to +visit them, for their external appearance.</p> +<p><i>St. Matthew’s</i>, Camp Field, is a very handsome +stone structure, in the English style of architecture, erected in +1825; and the large area in front gives the spectator room to see +its form and proportions, unimpeded by surrounding houses.</p> +<p><i>St. Andrew’s</i>, Travis-street, London-road, is a +neat Gothic structure of stone, built in 1831.</p> +<p><i>All Saints’</i>, in Grosvenor-square, +Chorlton-on-Medlock, was erected in 1820: it is a stone building, +standing in the midst of an enclosure, in the centre of the +Square.</p> +<p><i>St. Saviour’s</i>, Plymouth Grove, +Chorlton-on-Medlock, is a stone <a name="page135"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 135</span>edifice, which is intended to +receive a tower at some future period.</p> +<p>In Salford, <i>Trinity Chapel</i>, Chapel-street, and <i>St. +Stephen’s</i>, St. Stephen’s Street, have little to +interest the stranger.</p> +<p><i>St. Phillip’s</i>, near the Adelphi, is a stone +edifice, with a semi-circular colonnade in front, and a circular +tower and dome of slender proportions, which have been compared +to a pepper-box.</p> +<p><i>Christ’s Church</i>, Acton-square, beyond the +Crescent, Salford, is of stone. Its minister, the Rev. Hugh +Stowell, M.A., is one of the most popular preachers in the +town. Not a mile beyond this, is Pendleton church,—a +neat Gothic structure of stone, which from its position, is a +pleasing object from many points of view for miles round.</p> +<p><i>St. George’s</i>, Hulme, is a specimen of the florid +Gothic in some of its architectural decorations.</p> +<p><i>St. Luke’s</i>, Cheetham Hill, now in progress of +erection, the first stone being laid in June, 1836, is another +Gothic edifice, of some pretensions.</p> +<p>Amongst the dissenting chapels and meeting houses, those of +the Methodists and Independents are the most prominent for their +numbers and size. The Wesleyan Methodists have about a +dozen; of which, the principal are the chapels in Oldham-street, +Grosvenor-street (Chorlton-on-Medlock); and in Irwell-street, and +Gravel-lane, Salford. The New Connexion Methodists have +two; the Primitive Methodists, four; the Independent Methodists, +two; and the Methodist Association, (the seceders under Dr. +Warren,) five or six chapels in the town and suburbs.</p> +<p>The Independents have seven or eight large chapels; the +principal ones are, that in Mosley-street, the scene of the late +Rev. Dr. McAll’s ministerial labours; that in +Grosvenor-street, in which the late Rev. Mr. Roby once +ministered; and one in Rusholme-road,—the last being the +only one of handsome exterior.</p> +<p>The Particular Baptists have three chapels; the Society of +Friends, a very large, neat building, with stone front, in +Dickenson-street; the Scotch Church is a neat stone edifice, +opposite St. Peter’s Church, St. Peter’s Square; the +Scotch Presbyterian, or Secession Church, in Lloyd-street and +Mount-street, is a plain brick building.</p> +<p><a name="page136"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 136</span>The +Unitarians have four chapels; that in Cross-street, a large brick +building, was destroyed by a mob, in what were called the +“Sacheverel riots,” and parliament voted £1,500 +towards its re-erection. There is a small chapel in +Salford, in Dawson’s Croft, Greengate; a large and very +handsome stone-fronted edifice in Bridge-street, Strangeways; and +a beautiful and spacious structure, one of the purest specimens +of the English style of architecture in the town, nearly +completed, in Upper Brook-street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, for the +congregation formerly worshipping in the Mosley-street +chapel.</p> +<p>The Swedenborgians have two chapels; one in Peter-street, +Manchester, the other in Bolton-street, Salford. There are +seven chapels for the Welsh, of different denominations; three, +severally called “Christ Church,” for particular +denominations of Dissenters; and the Jews have a synagogue in +Halliwell-street.</p> +<h4>PLACES OF PUBLIC AMUSEMENT.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p>Royal Theatre,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Fountain-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Queen’s Theatre,</p> +</td> +<td><p>York-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Assembly Rooms,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mosley-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Club House,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mosley-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Concert Hall,</p> +</td> +<td><p>Lower Mosley-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Albion Club House,</p> +</td> +<td><p>King-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Billiard Room</p> +</td> +<td><p>Mosley-street.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>BATHS.</h4> +<p>Public Baths, situate at the entrance of the Infirmary +Walks.</p> +<p>Adelphi Swimming Baths, Reservoir Terrace, Salford.</p> +<p>Dolphin Cold Baths, Horrock Red Bank.</p> +<p>Medicated Vapour Bath, No. 1, Lloyd-street.</p> +<p>Whitlow’s Vapour Baths, 35, George street.</p> +<h4>CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.</h4> +<p>Manchester Royal Infirmary, Dispensaries, and Lunatic Asylum, +Piccadilly; Salford, and Pendleton Dispensary, 19, Bank +Parade.</p> +<p><a name="page137"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 137</span>House +of Recovery, Aytown-street.</p> +<p>Lying-in Hospital, Stanley-street, Salford.</p> +<p>Sick Hospital, 16, Bond-street.</p> +<p>Female Penitentiary, Rusholme-road.</p> +<p>Institution for curing Diseases in the Eye, 35, +Faulkner-street.</p> +<p>The Humane Society’s Receiving Houses are four in +number, viz., Lying-in Hospital, Stanley-street; the Ardwick and +Ancoats Dispensary; the Lying-in Hospital, Salford; and the +Salford and Pendleton Dispensary.</p> +<p>The Chorlton-on-Medlock Dispensary.</p> +<p>The Workhouse, Strangeways.</p> +<p>The Vagrant Office, ditto.</p> +<p>The Salford Workhouse, Green Gate.</p> +<p>The Pendleton Workhouse, Ford Lane.</p> +<p>Manchester and Salford District Provident Society, Office, 11, +St. James’s Square.</p> +<p>Besides the above, there are various sums bequeathed for +purposes of charity, amounting to the annual income of upwards of +£5,000.</p> +<h4>RAILROAD.</h4> +<p>For time of Trains starting, &c., see page 118.</p> +<h4>HOTELS, COACHES, AND COACH OFFICES.</h4> +<p>Buck and Hawthorn, St. Anne-street; Buck, Hanging Ditch;</p> +<p>Bush Inn, Deans-gate; Eagle Inn, Market-street; Golden Lion, +Deans-gate; Hare and Hounds, Shude Hill; Lower Turk’s Head, +ditto;</p> +<p>Mosley Arms, Piccadilly; Ditto, Shude Hill; New Boar’s +Head, Hyde’s Cross; Old Boar’s Head, ditto; Palace +Inn, Market-street; Peacock, ditto; Royal Hotel, corner of +Mosely-street (the Mails start from here); Swan Inn, +Market-street; Swan, Whitley Grove; Talbot, Market-street; White +Swan, Shude Hill; Commercial, Market-street.</p> +<h4><a name="page138"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 138</span>POST +OFFICE.</h4> +<p><i>The following are the intended Arrivals and Departures of +the principal Mails at this Office</i>, <i>from the 6th of +July</i>, 1837.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="4"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ARRIVAL.</span></p> +</td> +<td colspan="3"><p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">DEPARTURE.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">H.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>London</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span>—Principal London +Mail.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span> with Foreign Letters +for the first Morning Delivery</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span>—For a second +Delivery in London.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"> </p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span>—for Foreign +Letters on Tuesdays and Fridays.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Bristol</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Birmingham</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">15</span></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">7</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">15</span></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">11</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><span +class="GutSmall">15</span></p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Edinburgh</i></p> +<p><i>Glasgow</i></p> +<p><i>Carlisle</i></p> +<p><i>Preston</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +<p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25</p> +<p style="text-align: right">40</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +<p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +<p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Liverpool</i></p> +<p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +<p style="text-align: right">10</p> +<p style="text-align: right">2</p> +<p style="text-align: right">3</p> +<p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">35</p> +<p style="text-align: right">35</p> +<p style="text-align: right">10</p> +<p style="text-align: right">35</p> +<p style="text-align: right">35</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +<p style="text-align: right">8</p> +<p style="text-align: right">1</p> +<p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">50</p> +<p style="text-align: right">45</p> +<p style="text-align: right">50</p> +<p style="text-align: right">50</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Ireland</i></p> +<p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +<p style="text-align: right">or</p> +<p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">40</p> +<p style="text-align: right">or</p> +<p style="text-align: right">40</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">or</p> +<p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +<p>According to the arrival of Packets.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">2</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Leeds</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">5</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>York</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">25</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">8</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Derby</i></p> +<p><i>Nottingham</i></p> +<p><i>Leicester</i></p> +<p> By <i>Buxton</i>.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">9</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">A.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> Ditto</p> +<p> By <i>Birmingham</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">3</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">45</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">15</p> +</td> +<td><p><span class="GutSmall">P.M.</span></p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>GENERAL DELIVERIES AT THE OFFICE.</h4> +<p>The first, at eight until half-past eight in the morning, +includes Letters from London, Liverpool, Stafford, Wolverhampton, +<a name="page139"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +139</span>Birmingham, Market Drayton, Warrington, Frodsham, +Derby, Middleton, Bolton, Stockport, and Macclesfield, the +greatest part of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cambridgeshire, +Herefordshire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Sunderland, and +Durham.</p> +<p>The second, at nine until a quarter before twelve in the +morning, First Liverpool, (per Railway,) includes Letters from +Chester, the counties of Shropshire, Hereford, Leominster, part +of North Wales, and all Ireland, Bolton, Blackburn, Bury, +Burnley, Colne, Oldham, all Saddleworth, Ashton-under-Line, +Audenshaw, Stalybridge, Hyde, Denton, Gee Cross, and Gorton.</p> +<p>The third, at eleven until a quarter to twelve in the morning, +Second Liverpool, (per Railway,) Preston, Newton-in-the-Willows, +Eccles and Kenyon.</p> +<p>The fourth, at twelve at noon, until half-past three in the +afternoon, includes Letters from London, Bristol, Falmouth, the +counties of Berkshire, Essex, Kent, Hants, Sussex, and Suffolk; +part of North Wales, Cornwall, Devonshire, Somersetshire, +Oxfordshire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, +Cheshire, and all the West of England; Walsall, Wolverhampton; +Stafford, Stone, Shiffnall, Chester, Newcastle, Lawton, +Northwich, Knutsford, Middlewich, Nantwich, Preston-Brook, +Runcorn, Warrington, Frodsham, Penkridge, Eccleshall, Towcester, +Northampton, Altringham, Didsbury, Cheadle, and Wilmslow.</p> +<p>The fifth, at half-past two until half-past three in the +afternoon, Third Liverpool, (per Railway,) and Leigh.</p> +<p>The sixth, at a quarter-past four in the afternoon until nine +at night, includes Letters from York, Wetherby, Leeds, Bradford, +Huddersfield, Halifax, Rochdale; parts of Suffolk, Hertfordshire, +Cambridgeshire, and Scotland, Derby, Ashbourn, Leek, +Macclesfield, and Stockport; the counties of Bedford, Hertford, +Leicester, and Northampton; Disley, Buxton, Bakewell, Matlock, +Belper, Sheffield, &c.; Fourth Liverpool, (per Railway,) +Carlisle, the whole of Scotland, the counties of Westmoreland and +Cumberland, Ulverston, Lancaster, Preston, &c.</p> +<p>The seventh, at half-past seven until nine at night, Fifth +Liverpool, (per Railway,) includes Letters from Birmingham, +Wolverhampton, Stafford, Walsall, Shiffnall, Chester, Newcastle, +Lawton, Middlewich, Northwich, Warrington, Frodsham, <a +name="page140"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +140</span>Preston-brook, Runcorn, Penkridge, Knutsford, +Congleton, Stockport, Bolton, and Rochdale.</p> +<p>There are three deliveries by the carriers for the towns of +Manchester and Salford, daily, at 8 30, a.m., at 12 30, p.m., and +5, p.m., except on Sundays, when there is only a morning +delivery. The deliveries, of course, must be delayed, if +any irregularity in the arrival of the Mails. The letter +carriers are at the office from 7 to 8 30, a.m., from 12 to 12 +30, p.m., and from 4 to 5, p.m.; but no letters can be delivered +by them at the office, except to persons who have not been found +when on their rounds.</p> +<p>The Office continues open for strangers from 8 in the morning +until 10 at night. On Sundays, the office is closed from +half-past 10 till half-past 12, and from 3 till 5.</p> +<h4>HACKNEY COACH FARES.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">DAY FARES.</p> +<p><i>These Fares are to be taken</i>, <i>either for time or +distance</i>, <i>at the option of the driver</i>.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">One Horse Coach</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Two Horse Coach</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Any distance not exceeding two thirds of a mile, or 1172 +yards.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Any distance exceeding two thirds of a mile, and not +exceeding 1 mile, or 1760 yards</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>And for every succeeding third of a mile, or 586 yards</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>If for time, then for any time not exceeding a quarter of +an hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For every succeeding quarter of an hour</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For every stoppage to take up more than once, and to set +down more than twice, an additional</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>For every quarter of an hour waiting after being +called</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">4</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">FARES FROM ST. ANN’S +SQUARE.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">One Horse Coach</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Two Horse Coach</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Stockport Road</i>—26 yards past Lees-street +(left)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 50 yards past Travis-street +(right)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Cheetham Hill</i>—opposite further side +Johnson-st.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 83 yards short of lane on left, +near first mile stone</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Oldham Road</i>—27⅔ yards past Warwick-st. +(left)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 18 yards past German-st. +(right)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><a name="page141"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +141</span><i>Stretford Road</i>—23½ yds. past +Gaythorn-st. (right)</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 31 yards short of Branch to New +Eccles Road</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Broughton Road</i>—2 yards past end of +Paradise-row</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 3 yards short of first corner of +Broughton Bridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Bury New Road</i>—6½ yards past door of +Whitster’s Arms</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 14 yards short of line of +building belonging to Mrs. Lomas</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Pendleton Road</i>—45½ yards short of +Irwell-street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 4 yds. short of Black Horse +door</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>New Eccles or Regent Road</i>—32⅓ yds. past +Collier-street, Liverpool-road</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — opposite end of New Quay +Co.’s yard</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center">FARES FROM PICCADILLY.</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">One Horse Coach</p> +</td> +<td colspan="2"><p style="text-align: center">Two Horse Coach</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">s.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">d.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Stockport Road</i>—23 yards beyond +Russel-street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 52 yards short of centre of new +Sheffield-road</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Cheetham Hill</i>—7⅓ yds. short of toll bar +on bridge</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 37 yds. beyond York-place on +left</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Oldham Road</i>—3⅓ yards beyond +Arundel-street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 10 yds. beyond Hall’s +Place on right</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Stretford Road</i>—7⅓ yards past +Briton’s Protection Inn, Bridgewater-street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 11½ yards past end of +factory next river Medlock on left</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Broughton Road</i>—25⅓ yards beyond +Bell’s Gates, Salford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 39 yds. short of Green Bk. +Terrace</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Bury New Road</i>—2⅓ yards beyond Backhouse +and Hyde’s distillery</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> — 52 yards past +Nightingale-street</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><i>Pendleton Road</i>—Opposite 1st corner of +Walker’s timber yard gates</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> —3½ yards past Smith-st., +Salford</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">6</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Every person calling a coach, and not employing it to such +call, shall pay such sum as would have been due for carrying a +fare from the stand to the place where the driver was called +to.</p> +<p><a name="page142"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +142</span>Carriages drawn by one horse to carry not exceeding +four persons besides the driver; and in carriages drawn by two +horses, for every person above four in addition to the driver, +one fourth of the whole fare.</p> +<p>The above fares shall be deemed a sufficient compensation for +any reasonable luggage which the passengers may think fit to +take.</p> +<p>When the fares for any carriage with two horses shall amount +to four shillings or upwards, or any carriage with one horse, +three shillings or upwards, it shall be at the option of the +hirer to detain such carriage, to return in the same, on payment +of half fare, provided it be not detained more than twenty +minutes, and for which detention no additional sum shall be +demanded.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Night Fares</span>.—After 12 +o’clock at night, or before 6 o’clock in the morning, +double the above fares are to be allowed; but when double fare +for distance is charged, single fare for waiting only to be +allowed; or if double fare for waiting is charged, only single +fare for distance.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">[<i>Time of standing</i>, <i>from +nine</i>, <i>morning</i>, <i>to twelve</i>, <i>night</i>.]</p> +<p><i>Piccadilly Stand</i>.—3 pair-horse, 20 one-horse +coaches.</p> +<p><i>St. Ann’s Square</i>.—2 pair-horse, 15 +one-horse coaches.</p> +<p><i>Railway Station and St. Peter’s Square</i>.—2 +pair-horse, and 7 one-horse coaches, may stand at either of these +places: they usually ply in Liverpool Road, at the arrivals of +the railway trains, and at other times stand in St. Peter’s +Square.</p> +<p><i>Hunt’s Bank</i>, <i>by the Church Steps</i>.—2 +one-horse coaches.</p> +<p><i>Tame-street</i>, <i>opposite the Crescent</i>, +<i>Ancoats</i>.—1 one-horse coach.</p> +<h4>SALFORD.</h4> +<p><i>Front of New Bailey</i>.—Twelve coaches.</p> +<h4>CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK.</h4> +<p><i>All Saints’ Church</i>.—Seven coaches.</p> +<p><i>Upper Brook-street</i>.—Four coaches.</p> +<p><i>Tuer-street</i>, <i>Oxford-street</i>.—Two +coaches.</p> +<h4><a name="page143"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +143</span>BANKERS.</h4> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><i>Manchester Bankers</i>.</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: center"><i>Correspondents in +London</i>.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bank of England Branch Bank.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Bank of England.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Savings’ Bank, Mr. Jn. Atkinson, Agent, 1, +Cross-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Cunliffes, Brooks, & Co., Market-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>R. Cunliffe, jun., & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Daintry, Ryle, & Co., Norfolk-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Whitmore, Wells, & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>B. Heywood & Co., St. Anne-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Masterman & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>W. Jones, Lloyd, & Co., King-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Jones, Lloyd, & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Scholes, Tetlow, & Co., Cannon-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Curries & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Bank of Manchester, Market-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Denison & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Manchester & Liverpool District Bank, Spring +Gardens.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Smith, Payne, & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Northern and Central Bank, Crown-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Westminster Bank.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Union Bank, Crown-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Glyn & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Commercial Bank of England, Mosley-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Masterman & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>Manchester & Salford Bank, King-st.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Williams, Deacon & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>South Lancashire Bank, Crown-street.</p> +</td> +<td><p>Barclay & Co.</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<h4>NEWSPAPERS.</h4> +<p>There are five Newspapers in Manchester; four of them weekly, +published on Saturday; and the fifth, the Guardian, published +twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday. We annex their names +and politics, and their circulation, as deduced from the stamp +return for the three months ending 1st March, 1838:—</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Guardian</span>, Whig</p> +</td> +<td><p>5050</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Advertiser</span>, Ultra Radical</p> +</td> +<td><p>3412</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Times</span>, Moderate Radical</p> +</td> +<td><p>2529</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Courier</span>, Conservative</p> +</td> +<td><p>2824</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p><span class="smcap">Chronicle</span>, Conservative</p> +</td> +<td><p>1382</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> For further particulars +we refer the Stranger to the Manchester Directory.</p> +<h4><a name="page144"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +144</span>PRINCIPAL TOWNS NEAR MANCHESTER.</h4> +<p><i>Altringham</i>. Its chief manufactures are yarn, +cotton, and worsted. Population, 2,302. 8 miles S.W. of +Manchester.</p> +<p><i>Ashton</i>. Woollens. Population, 9,222. +7 miles E.</p> +<p><i>Bolton</i>. Muslin, quilting, and dimity. +Population, 22,037. 11 miles N.W.</p> +<p><i>Bury</i>. Cotton. Population, 10,583. 9 +miles N.N.W.</p> +<p><i>Fairfield</i>. A Moravian settlement. 4 miles +E.</p> +<p><i>Knutsford</i>. Thread, worsted, and leather. +Population, 2,753. 15 miles S.</p> +<p><i>Macclesfield</i>. Silk. Population, +17,746. 18 miles S.</p> +<p><i>Middleton</i>. Cotton. Population, +12,793. 7 miles N.</p> +<p><i>Newton</i>. Fustian and cotton. Population, +1,643. 16 miles W.</p> +<p><i>Rochdale</i>. Woollen and strong cotton goods. Population, +61,011. 12 miles N.</p> +<p><i>Stockport</i>. Cotton. Population, +21,726. 7 miles S.</p> +<p><i>Warrington</i>. Cotton. Population, +13,570. 15 miles W.</p> +<p><i>Wigan</i>. Cotton and linen. Population, +17,716. 18 N.W.</p> +<h2><a name="page145"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +145</span>INDEX.</h2> +<p>Acton station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page58">58</a></span>.</p> +<p>Aston church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page13">13</a></span>.</p> +<p>— hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page14">14</a></span>.</p> +<p>— viaduct, <i>ib.</i></p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Basford station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page45">45</a></span>.</p> +<p>Barr Beacon, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page16">16</a></span>.</p> +<p>Beeston castle, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page51">51</a></span>.</p> +<p>Bescot Bridge station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page19">19</a></span>.</p> +<p>Birmingham, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page1">1</a></span>.</p> +<p>— antiquity of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page2">2</a></span>.</p> +<p>— bankers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page111">111</a></span>.</p> +<p>— brass founders, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page106">106</a></span>.</p> +<p>— British plate manufacturers, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— button manufacturers, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— buildings and institutions of, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page7">7</a></span>, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page9">9</a></span>, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page97">97</a></span>, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page98">98</a></span>.</p> +<p>— canal conveyance, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page113">113</a></span>.</p> +<p>— commercial boarding houses, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page112">112</a></span>.</p> +<p>— cut and plain glass manufacturers, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page107">107</a></span>.</p> +<p>— etymology of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page1">1</a></span>.</p> +<p>— glass works, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page107">107</a></span>.</p> +<p>— gun and pistol makers, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— hackney coach fares, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page111">111</a></span>.</p> +<p>— inns, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page112">112</a></span>.</p> +<p>— iron founders, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page108">108</a></span>.</p> +<p>— japanners, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— jewellers, silversmiths, and emporiums for every +description of cutlery, plated wares, &c., <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— lamp, chandelier, candelabra, lustre, &c. +manufacturers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page108">108</a></span>.</p> +<p>— manufactures of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page4">4</a></span>.</p> +<p>— manufacturers, miscellaneous, &c., <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p> +<p>— metal rollers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page108">108</a></span>.</p> +<p>— newspapers, list of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page112">112</a></span>.</p> +<p>— omnibus offices, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— pin makers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p> +<p>— places of note adjacent to, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page114">114</a></span>.</p> +<p>— places of worship, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page8">8</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page9">9</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page99">99</a></span>–105.</p> +<p>— platers, and manufacturers of silver and plated wares, +<span class="indexpageno"><a href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p> +<p>— post office, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page110">110</a></span>.</p> +<p>— public amusements, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page98">98</a></span>.</p> +<p>— public charities, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— schools, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— screw manufacturers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station house, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page12">12</a></span>.</p> +<p>— steam engine manufacturers, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page109">109</a></span>.</p> +<p>— waggon warehouses, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page114">114</a></span>.</p> +<p>— water works, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page15">15</a></span>.</p> +<p>Bolton Junction station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page85">85</a></span>.</p> +<p>Bridgeford hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page37">37</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page36">36</a></span>.</p> +<p>Broad Green station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page70">70</a></span>.</p> +<p>Bury-lane station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page85">85</a></span>.</p> +<p>Bushbury hill and church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page26">26</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p><a name="page146"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +146</span>Cannock Chase, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page28">28</a></span>.</p> +<p>Chat Moss, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page86">86</a></span>.</p> +<p>Congleton, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page49">49</a></span>.</p> +<p>Coppenhall station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page48">48</a></span>.</p> +<p>Crewe station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page46">46</a></span>.</p> +<p>Cross-lane Bridge station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page88">88</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Darlaston, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page20">20</a></span>.</p> +<p>Delamere Forest, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page51">51</a></span>.</p> +<p>Duddeston, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page13">13</a></span>.</p> +<p>Dudley, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page18">18</a></span>.</p> +<p>Dutton viaduct, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page58">58</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Eccles church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page87">87</a></span>.</p> +<p>Eccleshall, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page38">38</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Four Ashes station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page28">28</a></span>.</p> +<p>Frodsham, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page60">60</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Hampstead hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span>.</p> +<p>Hartford station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page55">55</a></span>.</p> +<p>Huyton Gate and Roby-lane Gate stations, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page69">69</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>James’s Bridge station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page20">20</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Knowsley Park, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page69">69</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Liverpool, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page72">72</a></span>.</p> +<p>— antiquity of, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>— bankers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page128">128</a></span>.</p> +<p>— baths, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page116">116</a></span>.</p> +<p>— buildings of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page79">79</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page115">115</a></span>.</p> +<p>— castle of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page73">73</a></span>.</p> +<p>— commerce of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page77">77</a></span>.</p> +<p>— distinguished natives of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page82">82</a></span>.</p> +<p>— docks of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page78">78</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page116">116</a></span>.</p> +<p>— etymology of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page72">72</a></span>.</p> +<p>— foreign packets, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page120">120</a></span>.</p> +<p>— harbour of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page77">77</a></span>.</p> +<p>— importance of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page74">74</a></span>.</p> +<p>— inns, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page120">120</a></span>.</p> +<p>— literary, and scientific institutions, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page116">116</a></span>.</p> +<p>— manufactures of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page82">82</a></span>.</p> +<p>— markets, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page116">116</a></span>.</p> +<p>— newspapers, list of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page129">129</a></span>.</p> +<p>— objects of attraction, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page115">115</a></span>.</p> +<p>— post office, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page124">124</a></span>–127.</p> +<p>— places of worship, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page81">81</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page118">118</a></span>.</p> +<p>— public amusements, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page115">115</a></span>.</p> +<p>— public charities, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page117">117</a></span>.</p> +<p>— railroad regulations, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page118">118</a></span>. See also sheet table.</p> +<p>— steam navigation, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page121">121</a></span>–124.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Madeley station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page43">43</a></span>.</p> +<p>Manchester, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page89">89</a></span>.</p> +<p>— bankers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page143">143</a></span>.</p> +<p>— baths, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page136">136</a></span>.</p> +<p>— commencement of its manufacturing celebrity, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page90">90</a></span>.</p> +<p>— distinguished natives of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page96">96</a></span>.</p> +<p>— etymology of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page89">89</a></span>.</p> +<p>— hackney coach fares, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page140">140</a></span>–142.</p> +<p>— hotels, coaches, and coach offices, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page137">137</a></span>.</p> +<p>— manufactures of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page91">91</a></span>, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page130">130</a></span>.</p> +<p>— newspapers, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page143">143</a></span>.</p> +<p>— origin of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page89">89</a></span>.</p> +<p>— places of public amusement, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page136">136</a></span>.</p> +<p>— places of worship, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page133">133</a></span>–136.</p> +<p>— post office, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page138">138</a></span>–140.</p> +<p>— principal towns near, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page144">144</a></span>.</p> +<p>— public buildings and institutions of, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page94">94</a></span>, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page131">131</a></span>, <span +class="indexpageno"><a href="#page136">136</a></span>.</p> +<p>— railroad, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page137">137</a></span>.</p> +<p>— situation of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page93">93</a></span>.</p> +<p>Mersey viaduct, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page62">62</a></span>.</p> +<p><a name="page147"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +147</span>Middlewich, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page52">52</a></span>.</p> +<p>Minshull Vernon station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page50">50</a></span>.</p> +<p>Moore station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page61">61</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Nantwich, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page46">46</a></span>.</p> +<p>Newton Junction, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page65">65</a></span>.</p> +<p>— town of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page84">84</a></span>.</p> +<p>Nixon, Robert, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page54">54</a></span>.</p> +<p>Northwich, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page56">56</a></span>.</p> +<p>— brine springs, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>Norton Bridge station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page37">37</a></span>.</p> +<p>Norton priory, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page60">60</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Old Roman Way, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span>.</p> +<p>Over, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page53">53</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Parkside station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page85">85</a></span>.</p> +<p>Patricroft station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page87">87</a></span>.</p> +<p>Penkridge church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page30">30</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page31">31</a></span>.</p> +<p>Perry Barr station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page16">16</a></span>.</p> +<p>— hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span>.</p> +<p>Potteries, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page38">38</a></span>.</p> +<p>Prescot, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page68">68</a></span>.</p> +<p>Preston-Brook station,<span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page60">60</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Quarry Bridge, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page30">30</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Rowley Hills, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page21">21</a></span>.</p> +<p>Runcorn, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page61">61</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Sandbach, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page49">49</a></span>.</p> +<p>Sandwell Park, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span>.</p> +<p>Spread Eagle station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page29">29</a></span>.</p> +<p>Stafford, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page32">32</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>Standon church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page40">40</a></span>.</p> +<p>Stone, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page38">38</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Tunnel, Liverpool, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page70">70</a></span>.</p> +<p>— Wednesfield, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page22">22</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Vale Royal viaduct, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page54">54</a></span>.</p> + +<div class="gapspace"> </div> +<p>Walsall, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page19">19</a></span>.</p> +<p>Warrington station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page62">62</a></span>.</p> +<p>— account of, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>Waste-lane station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page88">88</a></span>.</p> +<p>Wednesbury, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page19">19</a></span>.</p> +<p>West Bromwich, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page17">17</a></span>.</p> +<p>— gas works, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>Whitmore station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page41">41</a></span>.</p> +<p>Willenhall, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page22">22</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <i>ib.</i></p> +<p>Winsford station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page53">53</a></span>.</p> +<p>Winwick church, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page64">64</a></span>.</p> +<p>— hall, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page65">65</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page64">64</a></span>.</p> +<p>Wolverhampton, account of, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page24">24</a></span>.</p> +<p>— station, <span class="indexpageno"><a +href="#page23">23</a></span>.</p> +<h2>NOTES.</h2> +<p><a name="footnotev"></a><a href="#citationv" +class="footnote">[v]</a> The work is published either with +or without the steel plates.</p> +<p><a name="footnote7"></a><a href="#citation7" +class="footnote">[7]</a> The proceeds of the Musical +Festivals are for the benefit of the General Hospital, and not +given to the Dispensary, as is stated in Mr. Lacy’s +Liverpool Guide-book.</p> +<p><a name="footnote11"></a><a href="#citation11" +class="footnote">[11]</a> “The Picture of +Birmingham,” published by J. Drake, New-street, containing +an historical and descriptive account of the town, with an +accurate map, and twelve views of the principal buildings, +&c.</p> +<p><a name="footnote14"></a><a href="#citation14" +class="footnote">[14]</a> See page 2.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97a"></a><a href="#citation97a" +class="footnote">[97a]</a> For a detailed account of +objects worthy the traveller’s notice, see the +“Picture of Birmingham,” published by J. Drake, 52, +New-street; W. Wood, 78, High street; and to be had of all +booksellers.</p> +<p><a name="footnote97b"></a><a href="#citation97b" +class="footnote">[97b]</a> A correct view of the Town Hall, +Free Grammar School, and Market Hall, to be had on a sheet, the +one shilling, at J. Drake’s, 52, New-street, and of all +booksellers.</p> +<p><a name="footnote106"></a><a href="#citation106" +class="footnote">[106]</a> The limits of this work would +not admit of a more extensive list of the manufacturers of +Birmingham, which are exceedingly numerous.</p> +<p><a name="footnote110"></a><a href="#citation110" +class="footnote">[110]</a> With Foreign Letters, <i>via</i> +Birmingham and Chester to Holyhead.</p> +<h2><a name="page1_1"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +1</span>ADVERTISEMENTS.</h2> +<h3>CLARK’S<br /> +METALLIC HOT-HOUSE MANUFACTORY,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><i>ESTABLISHED</i></span> 1818,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">FOR THE +CONSTRUCTION AND ERECTION OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">CONSERVATORIES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">HOT AND GREEN-HOUSES</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">HORTICULTURAL BUILDINGS</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF EVERY +DESCRIPTION.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">COPPER SASHES, FAN-LIGHTS, +SKY-LIGHTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">&c. &c. &c.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">PROPRIETOR,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Mr</span>. THOMAS CLARK, <span +class="smcap">Junior</span>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANAGER,</span><br /> +<span class="smcap">Mr</span>. JOHN JONES.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>64, Lionel-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_2"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 2</span>W. AND +T. AVERY,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ESTABLISHED +1730,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>SCALES, SCALE BEAMS, & +STEELYARDS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>TO +WEIGH</i></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">From 100th part of a grain to 20 +tons;</p> +<p style="text-align: center">PATENT WEIGHING MACHINES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Screw Plates and Die +Stocks;</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">ROAD MACHINES UPON THE BEST +PRINCIPLES;</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Standard Scales and Weights for +Corporations:</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DIGBETH, +BIRMINGHAM,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AND</span> +32<span class="GutSmall">, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>JOSEPH STUBBS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">LATE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">RADENHURST AND STUBBS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><i>MANUFACTURER OF</i></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>WHIPS AND WHIP THONGS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SADDLES, BRIDLES, HARNESS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">&c.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>13, Jamaica-row, Smithfield, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_3"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 3</span> +<a href="images/pads3.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads3.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>EDWARDS, BALL <span class="GutSmall">AND</span> CO.,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>82, High-street, +Birmingham,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">JEWELLERS, SILVERSMITHS, CUTLERS, +&c.,<br /> +EMPORIUM</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">FOR THE +MANUFACTURES OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>BIRMINGHAM</i>, +<i>SHEFFIELD</i>, <i>AND LONDON</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Established nearly a century.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><span class="smcap">This</span> spacious suite of Rooms offers +to the inspection of the Visiter, an extensive selection of +fashionable Jewellery, Gold and Silver Plate; and a large +assortment of second hand Plate; Plated Wares of every variety; +Fancy Silver Goods; Gilt Jewellery and Trinkets; Gold and Silver +Watches; German Silver, and Plated on Steel Articles; Warranted +Cutlery, Elastic Razors, and Strops; Fancy Hearth Brushes; Papier +Mâchée Trays and Japanned Wares; Bronze Tea and +Coffee Urns; Britannia Metal Goods; Bronze and Or Molu Suspending +and Table Lanps, Candelabra, Lustres, Inkstands, &c.; +Regulation and Dress Swords; Patent Corkscrews; Snuffers and +Polished Steel Articles of every description.</p> +<p>N.B. Canteens made and fitted to contain Plate. Livery Button +Dies cut, and Buttons made to order on the shortest notice. +Medals and Seals for Public Companies and Scientific Societies, +Communion Services, Presentation Plate, and Silver Cups designed +and executed in the first style of Art.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Arms, Crests, and Mottos +Engraved.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">FURNISHING +IRONMONGERY IN GENERAL.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4><a name="page1_4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span>JAMES +WARD,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">No. 12, <span class="smcap">St. +Mary’s Row</span>, <span +class="smcap">Birmingham</span>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>GUN CLEANING +RODS</i></b><b>,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">WADDING +PUNCHES,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Cap’d and Common Worms, +Lock Vices, Nipples,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>NIPPLE +AND OTHER TURNSCREWS</i></span><span +class="GutSmall">,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BULLET AND +SHOT MOULDS,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">&c. +&c.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">ENGRAVING AND LETTER-CUTTING;</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Letter Punches, Sheep, Bag, and +Burn Marks; Door Plates and Seals neatly<br /> +engraved; Artificial Flower Punches, &c. &c.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>THOMAS ELKINGTON,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">GOLD AND SILVER BEATER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>WHOLESALE +DEALER IN</i></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SILVER POWDER, BRONZE, &c.,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>146, Lionel-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>R. W. CHILD,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>FANCY GILT +TOYS</i></b><b>,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">JEWELLERY, &c.,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>36, Lench-street, St. +Mary’s Square,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_5"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 5</span> +<a href="images/pads5.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads5.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>MAPPLEBECK AND LOWE’S</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">EMPORIUM FOR +THE MANUFACTURES OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BIRMINGHAM, LONDON, AND +SHEFFIELD<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURING AND FURNISHING +IRONMONGERY,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Wholesale and Retail.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BY +APPOINTMENT,</span><br /> +<i>Agents to Messrs. JOSEPH RODGERS and SONS</i>, +<i>Sheffield</i>, <i>Cutlers to her Majesty</i>.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">The</span> Nobility, Gentry, and Strangers +visiting Birmingham, are respectfully invited to this +Establishment, whether as Purchasers, or Parties in search of +amusement. The <span class="GutSmall">SHOW ROOMS</span>, contain +the finished articles for Sale that are manufactured in this +Town, London, and Sheffield—and are open to all persons of +respectability. Cards of admission, to inspect some of the +distinguished Manufactories, may be obtained at this +Establishment.</p> +<h4>Cutlery Show Rooms,</h4> +<p>Contains an elegant and splendid assortment of every +description of articles in Cutlery, and beautiful specimens from +the Manufactory and Show Rooms of Messrs. Rodgers and Sons, and +various other articles which present novelties of unusual taste +and variety; also, an extensive variety of rich <i>Sheffield +Plated Wares</i>, (with strong Silver edges and shields for +engraving arms or crests upon,) <i>German Silver and Britannia +Metal Goods</i>.</p> +<h4>Furnishing Show Room,</h4> +<p>Contains splendid Patent Fire Places, elegant Bronzed Steel +and Or-molu Stove Grates, Fenders, Fire Irons and +supports—Bronzed Tea and Coffee Urns, Kettles on Stands, +&c. &c., of the best manufacture, and entirely new +patterns.—A splendid assortment of the best Japanned Papier +Machée Trays and Waiters; also, Ladies’ Work Tables, +Fire Screens, Card Racks, and Cases from the first +manufacturers.—Bronzed Inkstands, Lustres, Thermometers, +Card Racks, Wax Tapers, &c. &c.—Chandelier, Table, +Hall, Candle and other Lamps, and Candelabras in Bronze and +Or-molu.</p> +<h4>Establishment for Furnishing</h4> +<p>Gentlemen’s Seats, Halls, Houses, &c., in the most +complete manner and first style of elegance: Kitchen Ranges, on +most improved principles; Economical Cooking Apparatus, with the +latest improvements, and every description of Ironmongery, and +superior Braizery Goods; improved Shower Baths, with Pump; Warm, +Cold, Hip, and Feet Baths; Horticultural Implements in great +variety, viz., Tool Chests, Fumigating Bellows, Scott’s +Portable Garden Pumps, Engines, and Mennogrammes (or improved +Labels) for Flower Pots, &c., highly approved of by the first +Horticulturists.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">EXPERIENCED +BELL-HANGERS AND LOCKSMITHS SENT TO ANY PART OF THE +COUNTRY.</span></p> +<p>The Wholesale Ironmongery business connected with this +Establishment, is conducted at No. 1, <span class="smcap">Golden +Court</span>, adjoining.</p> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> <i>Goods for Exportation +and Shipping Orders</i>, <i>executed on the most advantageous +terms</i>.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>6, Bull Ring, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 6</span>JOHN +RODGERS <span class="GutSmall">AND</span> SONS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>WOOLLEN GIRTH, ROLLER, +BRACE,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BELT WEBS;</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">ELASTIC INDIA RUBBER WEBS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AND EVERY +DESCRIPTION OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRACES, BELTS, MILITARY SASHES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GIRTHS, SILK PURSES, WATCH +GUARDS,</b><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">&c.,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">CHISWELL-STREET, LONDON,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>And Broad-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>THOMAS CLARK <span class="GutSmall">AND</span> CO.,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">JEWELLERS & SILVERSMITHS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>GILT AND STEEL +TOY</i></b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">&c. +&c.,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>53, Lionel-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">GOLD, SILVER, AND GILT +JEWELLERY;</p> +<p style="text-align: center">SNUFF BOXES,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">EVER POINTED PENCIL CASES, THIMBLES, +&c.,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">In great variety, always on +hand.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_7"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 7</span> +<a href="images/pads7.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads7.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>JAMES BROWN,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRITANNIA METAL GOODS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Paradise-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>JOHN LILLEY, <span class="smcap">Jun</span>.,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SILVER AND PLATED WARES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>MILITARY ORNAMENTS, +&c.,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>OF EVERY +DESCRIPTION</i></span><span class="GutSmall">,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>23, St. Paul’s Square, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>THOMAS HORTON, <span class="GutSmall">AND</span> CO.,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">MAKERS OF GERMAN SILVER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AND +MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SPOONS, FORKS, &c.,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>IN THE +IMPROVED BRITISH PLATE</i></span><span +class="GutSmall">,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>34, Lench-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 8</span>SAMUEL +RAWLINS & SON,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Saddlery, Harness,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRIDLES, SHOT-BELTS, &c.,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FOR EXPORTATION.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">CURRIERS, LEATHER FACTORS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FOREIGN HIDE MERCHANTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>No. 100, WEAMAN STREET,</b><br +/> +<span class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>NEEDHAM’S</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">IMPROVED PATENT</p> +<p style="text-align: center">MILITARY & PORTABLE</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>BOX SPURS</i></b><b>,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AND SPURS OF +EVERY DESCRIPTION,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FOR THE HOME AND FOREIGN +MARKETS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTORY, +16, COLESHILL STREET,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><b>BIRMINGHAM.</b></span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_9"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 9</span> +<a href="images/pads9.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads9.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>W. HOPKINS & SON,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>Late James Barron</i>,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PATENT BLIND</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURERS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GENERAL BRASS FOUNDERS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">25, LOWER TEMPLE-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Birmingham.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>MAPS MOUNTED ON A SUPERIOR +PRINCIPLE;</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SPRING BLINDS FOR SHOP FRONTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ON AN +IMPROVED CONSTRUCTION;</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GAUZE WIRE BLINDS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">OLD BLINDS PAINTED AND +REPAIRED,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">&c., &c., &c.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>SAMUEL BROWN,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURER OF</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Pocket Books & Fancy Leather +Cases</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IN EVERY +VARIETY.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">UPPER GOUGH +STREET,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><b>BIRMINGHAM.</b></span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><span class="GutSmall">FASHIONABLE</span><br /> +CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">CURZON PLACE, NEW STREET, +BIRMINGHAM.</span></h3> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">W. B. REYNOLDS</p> +<p>Has much pleasure in announcing to his Friends and the Public +generally, that (in consequence of the decease of his late +foreman) he has succeeded in engaging from London a Gentleman of +acknowledged taste, ability, and experience, to superintend the +cutting department of his business. He therefore feels the +fullest confidence in soliciting the continued patronage of his +Friends, the Gentry, and Inhabitants of Birmingham and its +vicinity, respectfully assuring them, that all orders with which +he may be favoured will be executed in a style of superiority and +fashion, not to be surpassed by any establishment at the West end +of the metropolis.</p> +<p>To the Ladies, W. B. R. requests particularly to observe, +that, having for five years had the management of a business in +Bond Street, London, in which</p> +<p style="text-align: center">LADIES RIDING HABITS</p> +<p>formed a leading feature, and much conduced to its celebrity, +he can promise without reserve, that their commands in this +department shall be executed in a manner equal, if not superior, +in taste and elegance, to the most reputed houses in the +kingdom.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">LIVERIES, MACINTOSH GREAT COATS, +&c.,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">IN EVERY VARIETY.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FUNERALS FURNISHED.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 11</span>No. +7, ST. PAUL’S SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM.</h3> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">WILLIAM MITCHELL,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">ORIGINAL GENERAL METALLIC</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PEN</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURER,</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Most</span> respectfully requests the +notice of the Merchants, Dealers, and Stationers, to his +extensive Assortment of</p> +<h4>STEEL PENS,</h4> +<p>comprising every variety of the most approved general +patterns, manufactured of the best materials, and finished in a +most superior manner; also, with the above he particularly +recommends his</p> +<h4>VICTORIA PENS,</h4> +<p>as combining in themselves all the best properties of the +Quill, and possessing, in a superior degree, the durability and +beautiful equality in the appearance of the writing, that the +most elaborately finished Steel Pens exhibit.</p> +<p>Sold Wholesale at the Manufactory, and at his Agents’, +Messrs. Wood & Son, No. 4, Newcastle-street, +Farringdon-street, London; Mr. Simmons’, No. 9, St. +Ann’s Square, Manchester; Mr. Grafton’s, Civet Cat, +Lord-street, Liverpool, and retail by all Stationers.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>CABINET,<br /> +UPHOLSTERY, AND PAPER HANGING<br /> +WAREHOUSE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">16, <span +class="smcap">Worcester-Street</span>, (<span +class="smcap">opposite the Market Hall</span>,)<br /> +BIRMINGHAM.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>J. WRIGHT,</b></p> +<p><span class="smcap">Very</span> respectfully calls the +attention of Families Furnishing, to his extensive Stock, which +will be found to consist of an unusually large assortment of</p> +<h4>CABINET FURNITURE:</h4> +<p>comprising great varieties of every article of warranted +manufacture, and of the most seasoned materials, for every +department of the dwelling, manufactured consistently with the +prevailing Metropolitan style and taste, and with great regard to +that desideratum of the day—<i>economy in price</i>.</p> +<h4>UPHOLSTERY, &c.</h4> +<p>Damask and Plain Moreens, Chintzes, Trimmings, Floor Cloths, +Table-Baizes, &c. &c., of the first quality.</p> +<h4>PAPER HANGINGS</h4> +<p>In great variety, selected from the first houses in the Trade; +and which for style, quality, or price, he flatters himself +cannot be excelled.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>MENDEL’S<br /> +MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL<br /> +HOTEL,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BRIDGE-STREET, MANCHESTER.</span></h3> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">EMANUEL MENDEL,</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Begs</span> leave to inform Commercial +Gentlemen and the Public generally, that he has opened the above +House, which is fitted-up in a superior manner, and hopes, by +attention and assiduity, to merit a share of public +patronage.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">WINES AND +SPIRITS OF THE VERY BEST QUALITY.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">N.B.—EXCELLENT STABLING AND +LOCK-UP COACH-HOUSES.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_13"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 13</span> +<a href="images/pads13.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat Of Arms" +title= +"Coat Of Arms" +src="images/pads13.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>ROYAL HOTEL,<br /> +<i>MAIL AND COACH OFFICE</i>.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">FROM THIS OFFICE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DEPART +ALL</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL +MAILS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>Except the Burnley +Mail</i>);</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ALSO, A +GREAT NUMBER OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FIRST-RATE,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FAST, FOUR-HORSE COACHES:</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THUS +AFFORDING</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAVELLING</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>By Superior Conveyances, to +the</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">NORTH, INTO YORKSHIRE, AND TO ALL +PARTS OF</p> +<p style="text-align: center">THE KINGDOM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">ALMOST HOURLY.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">LACY AND ALLEN,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall"><i>PROPRIETORS</i></span><span +class="GutSmall">.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 14</span>YORK +HOTEL</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FAMILY HOUSE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><b>KING-STREET,</b></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANCHESTER.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>R. SWYER.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>TALBOT INN,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><b>MARKET-STREET,</b></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANCHESTER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">AN OLD ESTABLISHED</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>HOUSE.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_15"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 15</span> +<a href="images/pads15.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads15.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>COMMERCIAL AND FAMILY HOUSE,<br /> +KING’S ARMS<br /> +HOTEL,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">JOHN ELTON,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>KING-STREET, MANCHESTER.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>MARY OGDEN,<br /> +COMMERCIAL INN,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><b>MARKET-STREET,</b></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">CORNER OF +BROWN-STREET,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANCHESTER.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 16</span>BEE +COFFEE ROOMS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">UNDER THE +LATE PALACE INN,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>MARKET-STREET, +MANCHESTER.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">THIS +ESTABLISHMENT IS PECULIARLY ADAPTED FOR</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">STRANGERS +AND TRAVELLERS,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">FROM ITS +CENTRAL SITUATION.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Tea, +And Supper,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">SUPPLIED ON +A MINUTE’S NOTICE,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">AND AT VERY MODERATE PRICES.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>H. P. THATCHER,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>No. 19, King-street, +Manchester,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">LADIES’ AND GENTLEMEN’S</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FASHIONABLE HAIR CUTTER</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">AND DRESSER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DEPÔT +FOR FOREIGN AND BRITISH PERFUMERY,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Inventor of the much admired +Sicilian Cream for the Hair.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">A good assortment of Hair, Tooth, +Nail, and Clothes Brushes; Tortoise<br /> +shell, Ivory, and Horn Combs, in great variety.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4><a name="page1_17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 17</span>ST. +GEORGE’S<br /> +INDEPENDENT COACH<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND</span><br /> +GENERAL OMNIBUS OFFICE,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">(Opposite the End of +Union-street,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>HIGH-STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Coaches to most Parts of the +Kingdom.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Conveyance Company’s +OMNIBUSES to the following</b><br /> +<b>Places.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: +center">Wolverhampton—Stourbridge—Dudley—Walsall—Hagley—Bewdley—Kidderminster—Brierley +Hill—West +Bromwich—Wednesbury—Bilston—Hales Owen.</p> +<p style="text-align: right">HENRY GENDERS & CO.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>SWAN HOTEL.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">THEODORE WAKEFIELD,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">ORIGINAL POSTING AND FAMILY</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>HOTEL,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">HIGH-STREET, +BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +<p>T. W. begs to acquaint his Friends and the Public that his +OMNIBUSES PLY at the London and Birmingham and Grand Junction +Railway Stations constantly on the Arrival and Departure of the +Trains.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 18</span>W. +TATEHAM,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>32, TEMPLE-ROW,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">(Three Doors from Bull-street,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BIRMINGHAM,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BEGS TO CALL +THE ATTENTION OF LADIES & GENTLEMEN TO HIS</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>IMPROVED</i></b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">METHOD +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">PERUKE MAKING,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>And to state the superiority of +his System to that of</b><br /> +<b>his Contemporaries.</b></p> +<p>His <span class="smcap">Perukes</span> are so constructed as +to fit the Head with the greatest Precision, and form exactly the +natural angle on the Forehead, the Artificial Hair being +completely carried off the Temples. He defies the most +proficient connoisseur to distinguish them from a perfectly +natural head of hair.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>WILLIAM HORTON AND CO.,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>NEEDLES, PINS, AND +FISHHOOKS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">REDDITCH, +WORCESTERSHIRE,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">GREAT +HAMPTON-STREET, BIRMINGHAM,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">By special appointment to Her +Majesty the Queen, and Her Royal<br /> +Highness the Duchess of Kent.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">SOLE +INVENTORS OF THE CELEBRATED VICTORIA NEEDLE.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 19</span>H. +AND J. GIBBS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Platers on Steel and German +Silver,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>METAL AND JAPANNED +BUTTONS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Cloak Clasps, Split Rings, Stay +Holes, Fancy Gilt and</b><br /> +<b>Steel Toys, &c. &c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">7, LITTLE CHARLES-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>I. SHERWOOD,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRASS, COPPER, BLOCK TIN, AND +IRON</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GAS PIPING, &c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>TENANT-STREET MILL</i>, +<i>BIRMINGHAM</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>N.B. Locomotive Engine Pipes of +superior Quality.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>ELIZ. STURGES AND SON,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PLATINA, BRITISH PLATE, +AND</b><br /> +<b>BRITANNIA METAL WARES,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IN +THE</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Greatest Variety of Form, +Quality, and Price.</b></p> +<p>The Platina Tea and Coffee Sets were invented and are made +only by <span class="smcap">Eliz. Sturges</span> and <span +class="smcap">Son</span>, are warranted never to lose their +original shape or colour, and are sold at about the same price as +Britannia Metal Sets.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">26, LICHFIELD-STREET, +BIRMINGHAM.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4><a name="page1_20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>ENGRAVING.</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>ADDRESS CARDS, BANKERS’ +CHECKS,</b><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">AND BILL PLATES;</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Seal Stones, Gold and Silver Plate, +Engraved equal to</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>LONDON +HOUSES</i></span><span class="GutSmall">, </span><span +class="GutSmall"><i>AT</i></span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>C. COBURN’S,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">ENGRAVER AND STATIONER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>9, Ann-street, (near the Town +hall,)</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>BACCHUS & GREEN,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PLAIN & CUT GLASS +MANUFACTURERS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">UNION GLASS WORKS,</p> +<p style="text-align: +center"><b><i>BIRMINGHAM</i></b><b>.</b></p> +<p> <b>WAREHOUSE,</b><br /> +<b>8, Tokenhouse Yard, LONDON.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>WILLIAM CHAMBERS DAY,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">IRON FOUNDER,<br /> +SUFFOLK STREET, BIRMINGHAM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p>Every Description of Weighing Machines, suitable for Railways, +Road Wagons, Wharfs, Corn Dealers, Woolstaplers, Curriers, +Grocers, &c. Scales, Scale Beams, Steelyards, Die Stocks, +Screw Plates, Sugar Mills and Straw-cutting Engines on an +improved Principle, Mill Castings, &c.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>English and Foreign Weights in +Iron or Brass.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF THE PATENT DEEP COPPER SCALES.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4><a name="page1_21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 21</span>JOHN +LAW,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">PATENT TACK AND CUT NAILS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">OF EVERY +DESCRIPTION,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PAD BOX AND TRUNK LOCKS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Wrought Iron Hinges, Pressed +Riveted Hinges,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">HEAVY OR +WEIGHTY BULWARK HINGES,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>HOOKS and HINGES</i>, <i>ROUNDS +or WASHERS</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BRACKETS</b>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">CORNICE SLIDES, STAIR ROD EYES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Ironmongery of every Description +suitable for Foreign</b><br /> +<b>and Home Consumption,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">47, <span +class="GutSmall">COLESHILL-STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>J. F. PARKER,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>SILVER PLATED WARES,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">72, HIGH +STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Candlesticks, Cruet and Liquor +Frames, Tea Urns and Sets, Epergnes,<br /> +Dishes, &c. &c.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span><span class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM COMMERCIAL AND +PRIVATE</span><br /> +BOARDING HOUSE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">NO. 12,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Union Passage, +New-street.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">MR. AND MRS. JONES,</p> +<p>Respectfully inform their Friends and the Public, that Ladies +and Gentlemen visiting or passing through Birmingham, will meet +with every attention and comfort at this Establishment, at very +reasonable charges. The house is central and retired, and +contiguous to the Post Office and Principal Coach Offices.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>EDWARD STUBS,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">WHOLESALE +AND RETAIL</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURING FURRIER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DEALER +IN</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>TUSCAN AND STRAW +BONNETS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">19 & 22,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Furs Cleaned, Repaired, and +Altered, with every</b><br /> +<b>attention.—Bonnets Cleaned and Altered.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">OLD FURS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>DAVID COPE & SON,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">Nos. 7 & 8, BARTHOLOMEW-STREET, +BIRMINGHAM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Manufacturers of</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Plated Spoons, Forks,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SOUP AND PUNCH LADLES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">ASPARAGUS +TONGS, DECANTER CORKS AND LABELS,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Sugar Tongs, Toast Racks, Knife +Rests, Gilt and Plated</b><br /> +<b>Egg Spoons, Sugar Crushers, &c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BRITISH PLATE, SPOONS, FORKS, +&c. &c.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 23</span>T. +FLETCHER,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>31,</b><br /> +<b><i>TEMPLE ROW</i></b><b>,</b><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>Nearly opposite DEE’S +Royal Hotel</i>,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Has constantly on Sale,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PIANO FORTES, HARPS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>GUITARS</i>, &c, &c.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Piano Fortes, Harps, &c. lent +on Hire, Exchanged, Tuned,<br /> +and Repaired.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">IMPORTER OF FOREIGN STRINGS.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">ALL</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">New Music</p> +<p style="text-align: center">AS SOON AS PUBLISHED.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>GEORGE MINES,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">STOCK AND SHARE BROKER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>78,</b><br /> +<b>Newhall-street, Birmingham,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Begs to inform the Public he has +commenced Business as</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Stock and Share Broker,</p> +<p>And from 13 Years’ experience he has had in every branch +of the Business, he doubts not of giving perfect satisfaction to +all who may favour him with their Instructions.</p> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> He has a first rate +Agency in <i>London</i>, <i>Liverpool</i>, &c., and has Daily +Information of the state of all the Markets.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>TEMPERANCE ARMS</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">54<span class="GutSmall">, DALE +END, BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">JOB WILKINS,</p> +<p>Through this medium, begs to acquaint the Public generally, +especially Friends of Temperance Travelling, either on business +or pleasure, they will find his Establishment comfortable and +convenient, being between the Birmingham and London and Grand +Junction Railway Stations and the principal Coach Offices, and +within a few minutes’ walk of either.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Tea, Coffee, Chops, and Steaks, at +any hour of the day, but no<br /> +Intoxicating Liquors allowed on the Premises.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">WELL AIRED +BEDS, PRIVATE ROOMS: CHARGES MODERATE.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Cars for Hire</i>, <i>with +Careful Drivers</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4>JOSEPH SHORE AND SONS,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IMPORTERS +AND DEALERS IN</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Foreign Wines and Spirits;</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>11, Easy Row,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BIRMINGHAM.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_25"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 25</span> +<a href="images/pads25.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads25.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<h3>JENNENS & BETTRIDGE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">Japanners and Manufacturers</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>PAPIER MÂCHÉE, +&c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>TO HER MAJESTY,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>And to their late +Majesties</i>, <i>George and William the Fourth</i>,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">99, CONSTITUTION HILL,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BIRMINGHAM,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">3, HALKIN-STREET WEST,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">BELGRAVE +SQUARE, LONDON.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall"><i>THIS +ESTABLISHMENT IS OPEN TO THE INSPECTION OF</i></span><br /> +<span class="GutSmall"><i>VISITERS</i></span><span +class="GutSmall">.</span></p> +<p>N.B. Cards of Admission to the principal Manufacturing +Establishments and Show Rooms in Birmingham, may be had of J. and +B.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h4><a name="page1_26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>SILVER TEA URN,</h4> +<p style="text-align: center">9, DALE END,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>And New Market Place, Belmont +Row, Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">HENRY AND CHARLES GROVE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GENERAL GROCERS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Tea Dealers, Coffee Roasters, +Cheese & Butter Factors,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>TOBACCONISTS, &c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">HOP AND SEED WAREHOUSE.<br /> +Agents to the Durham Mustard Company.</p> +<p>H. & C. <span class="smcap">Grove</span> embrace this +opportunity of tendering their most grateful thanks to their +Friends and the Public, for the very distinguished patronage +their Establishments have been honoured with; and at the same +time beg to observe, that all Orders entrusted to them will be +executed under their own superintendence, and every effort +exercised to strengthen that confidence already shown by the very +flattering encouragement they have experienced.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>N.B. Orders from the Country +promptly attended to.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>SAMPSON ASTON,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">No</span>. 1, +<span class="GutSmall">JENNENS’ ROW, ST. +BARTHOLOMEW’S SQUARE,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BIRMINGHAM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BOX AND IVORY RULES,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Routledge’s and +Hawthorn’s Improved Locomotive</b><br /> +<b>ENGINEERS’ RULES,</b><br /> +AND RULES OF EVERY OTHER DESCRIPTION.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 27</span>PUMP +COMMERCIAL TAVERN,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">(<span class="GutSmall">OPPOSITE +THE OLD CHURCH</span>,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BULL RING, BIRMINGHAM.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">THOMAS EVANS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<b>Lately of Radenhurst’s +Nelson Coach Office,</b>)</p> +<p>Having succeeded to the Business of his late Father-in-law, +the Proprietor of the above Establishment, has made extensive +arrangements of the House; particularly by considerably enlarging +his Coffee Room, and making several new, and improving and +refurnishing the former, Sitting Rooms, Bed Rooms, &c. +&c. The result of these Improvements is, that T. E. is +enabled to offer the accommodation of a Family Hotel on the most +reasonable Terms. Visiters to Birmingham will find at this House +all the convenience of their own residence, upon a scale of +charges which must ensure their approval. Commercial Gentlemen +also will find increased attention to their comforts.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>W. REED,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">(From Hobson and Co.’s, Long +Acre, London,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">COACH BUILDER,<br /> +BATH-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Birmingham</b>.</p> +<p>Every description of Light Carriages, made on the most +approved Principle, and in the most fashionable Style, constantly +on Sale.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>LONDON COFFEE HOUSE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>10, PHILIP-STREET,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">(Opposite the Market Hall,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Birmingham.</b></p> +<p><span class="smcap">Dinner</span> commencing at One +o’Clock, with a liberal Bill of Fare daily.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Private Rooms and Dinners on the +shortest Notice.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">London and Provincial Daily and +Weekly Papers.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">WELL AIRED BEDS.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_28"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +28</span><span class="GutSmall">DUDDESTON HALL</span><br /> +LUNATIC ASYLUM,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">NEAR +BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">MR. LEWIS</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Respectfully</span> informs the Public +that he receives Patients, of either sex, labouring under mental +or nervous diseases, into his Establishment, on terms which +cannot fail to meet the approbation of persons desirous of +placing their friends, who may be so circumstanced, in so +comfortable and pleasing a retreat.</p> +<p>The well known beauty and variety of the Gardens and Pleasure +Grounds, and the entire adaptation of the House and Premises to +the purposes of an Asylum, render an elaborate description +unnecessary; suffice it to say, there is everything that can be +desired of this nature.</p> +<p>The Proprietor resides in and conducts the Establishment with +properly qualified Assistants; the female department is under the +superintendence of Mrs. and Miss <span +class="smcap">Lewis</span>, who devote all their time to the +health and comfort of the patients, and whose qualifications in +this respect are well known in Birmingham and its +neighbourhood.</p> +<p>Dr. <span class="smcap">Evans</span> is the consulting +Physician. Mr. <span class="smcap">Freer</span> and Mr. +<span class="smcap">Heeley</span>, Surgeons, one of whom visits +the Patients daily.</p> +<p>The situation is extremely desirable, the Vauxhall Station of +the Grand Junction Railway being at the Lodge Gates, and the +Railway itself bounding the Premises.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_29"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +29</span><span class="GutSmall">THE</span><br /> +LONDON SILK WAREHOUSE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">61, <span +class="GutSmall">AND</span> 62, BULL STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">BIRMINGHAM,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">PROPRIETOR, WILLIAM EDWARDS.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p><b>TO LADIES VISITING BIRMINGHAM</b>:—</p> +<p><span class="smcap">At</span> this House, (conducted upon the +most equitable principles, and established for a long time with +yearly increasing patronage,) the old system of trading is +adopted; the price of each article being marked in plain figures, +from which no deviation is ever allowed.</p> +<p>Its claim upon the patronage of the Public, is the undeviating +cheapness at which all articles, whether of British, Continental, +or Eastern manufacture are offered to Purchasers.</p> +<p>The Inhabitants of the neighbouring counties, who make their +purchases in Birmingham, will at all times find a large and +carefully chosen Stock of the most substantial, +well-manufactured</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>SILKS, SHAWLS, FURS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BLANKETS, FLANNELS, +COUNTERPANES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">RIBBONS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">GENUINE IRISH LINENS AND LAWNS.</p> +<p>Where purchases are made by Gentlemen, or other Persons, for +Friends in the country, which fail to give satisfaction, the +money is invariably returned, excepting where an article is +lessened in value, by being separated from the piece.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_30"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +30</span>HENRY GROVE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">(IMPORTER OF +WINES AND SPIRITS,)</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">VICTORIA COMMERCIAL INN,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">NEW MARKET PLACE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BELMONT ROW,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Birmingham.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">(Within Two Minutes’ Walk of +both Railway Stations.)</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>The airy situation of the above Inn, and its proximity to the +Grand Junction and London and Birmingham Railway Companies’ +Offices, render it most eligible for Commercial Gentlemen and +others, and will be found to possess the two important requisites +of Comfort and Economy combined.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Well Aired Beds.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>EXCELLENT +STABLING</i></b><b>,</b></p> +<p>N.B. OMNIBUSES to and from the principal Coach Offices, where +places may be secured by fast and well regulated Coaches to any +part of the Kingdom.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_31"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +31</span>CHARLES BROOKES,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">WOOLLEN DRAPER AND TAILOR,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">81, NEW-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(Nearly opposite the Society of +Arts,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">H. MICHAEL & CO.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURING</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>FURRIERS AND SKIN +MERCHANTS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">115, NEW-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Corner of King-street, +Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>N.B. Furs of all descriptions Cleaned, Repaired, and Altered +to the present Fashion.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>WAGNER & COTTRELL,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">PORTABLE WRITING DESKS,</p> +<p>Ladies’ Toilet and Gentlemen’s Dressing Cases, +Mahogany, Rosewood, or Russia Leather Travelling Cases, Medicine +Chests, Copying Machines, and every article in the Cabinet Case +Business.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">21, <i>PARADISE-STREET</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Birmingham.</b></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_32"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 32</span> +<a href="images/pads32.jpg"> +<img alt= +"Coat of Arms" +title= +"Coat of Arms" +src="images/pads32.jpg" /> +</a></p> +<p style="text-align: center">By Special Appointment.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<h3>T. J. MORRIS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">REPOSITORY OF ARTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Superfine Water Colours in +Cakes,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">AND</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FINE HAIR PENCILS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>In Ordinary to Her Most Gracious +Majesty the Queen,</b><br /> +<b>Her Majesty the Queen Dowager,</b><br /> +<b>and the</b><br /> +<b>Duke of Sussex.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>LONDON, and 28, Colmore Row, +BIRMINGHAM.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>Circulating Port Folios, consisting of the choicest Drawings, +Flowers by Holland and Edwards, Pole and Hand Screens, Card +Racks, Gold Papers and Borders, Screen Handles, White Wood-work +for Painting, Ivory and British Boards, and Fancy Stationery.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Papier Machee of every +description.</b></p> +<p>Materials for Chinese Japan Painting, Hollands and +Harding’s Colours, Brookman and Langdon’s, and +Banks’ Lead Pencils, Drawing Materials, Varnishing in a +Superior Style, Ivories for Miniatures, Prepared Canvass and +Bladder Colours.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MORDAN’S EVER-POINTED PENCILS AND PEN +HOLDERS.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_33"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 33</span>R. +SIMS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">(TEN YEARS +ASSISTANT TO MR. ENGLISH, COLMORE ROW,)</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">SURGEON DENTIST,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>NO. 13,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>UNION PASSAGE</i>, +<i>NEW-STREET</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BIRMINGHAM,</b></p> +<p>Returns his sincere acknowledgments to the Inhabitants of +Birmingham and its vicinity, for the liberal support that has +been conferred upon him since his commencing Practice, and trusts +that his having had Ten Years’ experience with Mr. English, +during which he had nearly the whole of the Mechanical Department +entrusted to his care, will still entitle him to that support and +patronage which has hitherto been awarded to him.</p> +<p>In consequence of some unskilful pretenders having put +themselves forward to public notice as adepts in the above art, +he thinks it necessary to state that he never ties in teeth, +which is the most that these pretenders can ever accomplish; his +superior Gold Plates never in any instance require the painful +and most injurious operation of tying in; and he assures them +they will wear more years than the spurious bone teeth, which +they put forth to the public, will last months, at a less charge, +and with greater comfort to the wearer.</p> +<table> +<tr> +<td colspan="8"><p style="text-align: center"><b>FEES.</b></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><i>s.</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><i>d.</i></p> +</td> +<td><p> </p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">£</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><i>s.</i></p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right"><i>d.</i></p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Single Tooth</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>usually charged</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">1</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td><p>A Complete Set</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">10</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p>usually charged</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">20</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +<td><p style="text-align: right">0</p> +</td> +</tr> +</table> +<p>Teeth stopped with Cement or Gold according to the cavity. +Extracting, Scaling, and every other operation upon the Teeth; +and particular attention paid to the regulation of +Children’s Teeth upon equally moderate charges.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_34"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 34</span>TO +NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN, SPORTSMEN, AND<br /> +GUN-MAKERS.</h3> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">S. WALKER,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Military Percussion Cap Maker to +Her Majesty’s</b><br /> +<b>Honourable Board of Ordnance,</b></p> +<p>Begs most respectfully to inform her numerous Friends, and the +Public generally, that she has dissolved Partnership with her +Son, and that she will continue to carry on the Percussion Cap +Business in all its Branches.</p> +<p>S. WALKER’S Caps have been known and approved of by the +Sporting World for more than sixteen Years, and she can with +confidence assure them every exertion shall be made, this +seventeenth Season, to render them still superior to any yet +manufactured.</p> +<p>Sold in Boxes of 250 and 500 each, by most of the respectable +Gun-makers and Gunpowder Dealers throughout the Kingdom.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">CHEMICALLY +PREPARED GUN WADDING,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Manufactured upon an Improved +Principle,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BY S. WALKER.</p> +<p>This Wadding will be found superior to any now in use, as it +not only cleans the barrel, every time it is used, but, through +the Chemical Properties of the oily Composition with which it is +impregnated, the lead is removed as quickly as deposited.</p> +<p>Sold in Bags, containing 500 each, price 5s., by all +respectable Gun Makers in the United Kingdom; where also may be +had S. Walker’s Improved Anti-Corrosive Percussion +Caps.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTORY,</span><br /> +<b>No. 12, Legge-street, Birmingham.</b></p> +<p>Agents for Edinburgh—J. & R. Raines, Leith-Walk.</p> +<p>Agents for Dublin—J. H. and J. Perry, 27, Pill-lane; and +Messrs. Saunders and Gatchells, Gunpowder Office, 6 and 7, +Mountrath-street, Dublin.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>ABRAHAM ALLPORT,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>WOOLLEN DRAPER, TAILOR, +&c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">2, COLMORE ROW, BIRMINGHAM.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>Clothes of every description made in the first style of +Fashion on the most reasonable Terms, and at the shortest +Notice.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_35"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +35</span>WILLIAM JACKSON & CO.,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">GLASS, LEAD, ZINC, AND OIL +MERCHANTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>COLOURS</i></b><b>, +</b><b><i>VARNISHES</i></b><b>, </b><b><i>&c.</i></b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Sheet Lead, Pig Lead, Lead Pipe, +Block Tin, White Lead,</b><br /> +<b>Dry Colours, Oil Paints, Linseed Oil, Boiled Oil,</b><br /> +<b>Tin Pipe, Turpentine, Putty, Sheet Zinc,</b><br /> +<b>Glaziers’ Vices,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">MANUFACTURED ZINC GOODS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Beer Machines, Water Closets, Lift +Pumps, Brass Cocks, and every<br /> +Description of Plumbers’ Brass Work.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">WAREHOUSE, +NO. 1, LITTLE CHARLES-STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">VARNISH, +COLOUR, AND ZINC WORKS, AT ASHTED.</span></p> +<p>N.B. Sole Agents for the Whiston Copper Company. (Messrs. +Sneyd, Kinnersley & Co.)</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>HATS.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">75, HIGH-STREET.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GOOD</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FASHIONABLE GOSSAMERS<br /> +At 4s. 9d. to 10s.;<br /> +<b>SUPERFINE SHORT-NAP STUFFS,</b><br /> +Best that can be made, 21s.;</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">TO BE HAD +AT</span><br /> +WALKER’S<br /> +CHEAP HAT DEPÔT.</p> +<p>Also a large assortment of Fashionable CAPS and GRASS HATS for +Summer wear.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_36"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +36</span>JAMES GRUNDY,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GAS & OIL LAMPS, +CHANDELIERS, &c.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">IN BRONZE & OR-MOLU.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>GAS FITTINGS OF EVERY +DESCRIPTION.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">No. 11, BARTHOLOMEW-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall"><i>BIRMINGHAM</i></span><span +class="GutSmall">.</span></p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>JOHN GODFREY,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>WORKING OPTICIAN, SILVERSMITH. +&c.</b><br /> +<span class="GutSmall">NO. 93, COLESHILL-STREET,</span></p> +<p>Begs most respectfully to announce to the Nobility, Gentry, +and Inhabitants of Birmingham and its Vicinity, that he has, in +addition to his Wholesale Establishment, opened a Retail Shop as +above, for the purpose of supplying those who may in any way +suffer from a defect of sight, with spectacles suited to their +various wants. Having been practically engaged in the above +business for more than forty years, he trusts that his great +experience will enable him to render all the assistance required, +so far as glasses, judiciously applied, are capable of affording +it.</p> +<p>Spectacles with shades of every description, particularly +recommended to persons travelling, or those who are affected with +a weakness in the eye, as they completely defend that tender +organ from the bright glare of the sun, and are extremely useful +either in windy or snowy weather.</p> +<p>Spectacles in tortoiseshell, silver, or blued steel mountings, +set with either best Brazilian pebbles, or glasses accurately +ground.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Optical Instruments of every +Description.</b></p> +<p>Spectacles of every description expeditiously and neatly +repaired. Pebbles or Glasses set in a few minutes.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Every Article supplied on +Moderate Terms.</b></p> +<p>J. G. hopes that the quality of the various articles supplied +by him, will, upon a fair trial, ensure him the patronage and +support of those who may honour him with their commands.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_37"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +37</span>CAPTAIN HOSKINS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">IMPORTER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">FOREIGN WINES AND SPIRITS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">LOWER TEMPLE-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(Corner of New-street,)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BIRMINGHAM.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">IMPORTER OF LIQUEURS.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>TEETH.</h3> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">MR. E. JONES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">DENTIST,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">NO. 9, EASY ROW, BIRMINGHAM,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">Six Years Assistant with Mr. <span +class="smcap">Andrew Clark</span>, of Brook-street,<br /> +Bond-street, London,</p> +<p>Begs to say he will continue to supply ARTIFICIAL TEETH upon +the same principle as Mr. A. Clark, and the only one that will +ensure ease, articulation, and mastication.</p> +<p>E. G., having undertaken several cases that had been refused +by other Dentists as impracticable, can give the most +satisfactory References as to the beneficial results of his +Practice.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">EVERY OPERATION IN</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>DENTAL SURGERY,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">Performed on the most moderate +Terms.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_38"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +38</span>PERMANENT ELASTIC SPRING HYGEIAN BEDS,<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">CARRIAGE, GIG, SOFA, AND CHAIR +SEATS,</span></h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Patronised by Her Royal Highness +the Duchess of Kent.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">RICHARD FARMER,<br /> +<b>Manufacturer,</b></p> +<p>With the greatest deference submits to the attention of his +Friends and the Public the subjoined Documents, as flattering +Testimonies of the high estimation in which the above very +superior and much approved Articles are held:—</p> +<p><i>From</i> <span class="smcap">Sir John Conroy</span>, +<i>Secretary to</i> <span class="smcap">Her Royal +Highness</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">The Duchess of +Kent</span>.</p> +<blockquote><p>“Sir John Conroy is honoured with the <span +class="smcap">Duchess of Kent’s</span> command to acquaint +Mr. Farmer, that he has permission to use Her Royal +Highness’s Name and Arms, as Manufacturer of Permanent +Elastic Spring Hygeian Beds to Her Royal Highness.</p> +<p>“Malvern, Sept. 13, 1830.”</p> +<p>“Sir John Conroy is to acknowledge the receipt of the +Bed and Mattress of Mr. R. Farmer’s invention, which he has +made for the <span class="smcap">Princess Victoria</span>; and +Sir John is commanded by the <span class="smcap">Duchess of +Kent</span> to express Her Royal Highness’s highest +approval of the principle of his Mattresses, Cushions, +&c.</p> +<p>“Kensington Palace, Dec. 17, 1830.</p> +<p>“<i>Mr. Richard Farmer</i>, <i>&c. +&c.</i>”</p> +</blockquote> +<p><i>From</i> <span class="smcap">Congreve Selwyn</span>, Esq. +<i>Surgeon of the Ledbury Dispensary</i>.</p> +<blockquote><p>“Mr. <span class="smcap">Congreve +Selwyn</span>, Surgeon of the Ledbury Dispensary, begs to offer +his Testimony of the value of Mr. Farmer’s invention of his +Elastic Mattresses and Cushions. The one he has sent to Mr. +Selwyn answers all the purposes for an Invalid, and is +particularly serviceable where the patient suffers from hectic +fever and night perspirations.</p> +<p>“Ledbury, May 2, 1834.</p> +<p>“<i>Mr. Richard Farmer</i>, <i>&c. +&c.</i>”</p> +</blockquote> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>From</i> <span class="smcap">Sir +William</span> B. <span class="smcap">Cave</span>, Bart.</p> +<blockquote><p style="text-align: right">“Stretton, +Atherstone, July 22, 1835.</p> +<p>“Sir <span class="smcap">Wm</span>. B. <span +class="smcap">Cave</span> has much satisfaction in informing Mr. +Richard Farmer, that the Elastic Steel Spring Bed which he +purchased from Mr. F. has fully answered every expectation he had +formed of it. Sir. W. C. lay upon it for five months without ever +being able to be moved in the least from it, and for the last six +months has not been removed from it for more than two hours at a +time, and it is now as perfect in the elasticity and strength of +the springs as when he received it from Mr. Farmer. Sir W. +Cave’s weight is sixteen stone and upwards. Dr. Palmer, of +Birmingham, who has been in the habit of attending Sir W. Cave +for many years, gave it as his opinion, that had he been lying on +a bed of any other description, the consequences would have been +very serious.</p> +<p>“<i>Mr. Richard Farmer</i>, <i>&c. +&c.</i>”</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>Carpets, Paper Hangings, Oil-Cloths, Druggets, Crumb Cloths, +Double-stoved Feathers, &c. &c.—Upholstery and +General Cabinet Business.</p> +<p>→ 11, <span class="smcap">New-Street</span>, (opposite +the Hen & Chickens Hotel,) and 30, <span class="smcap">Bath +Row</span>, <span class="smcap">Birmingham</span>.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_39"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +39</span>GEORGE RICHMOND COLLIS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Late Sir </i><span +class="smcap"><i>Edward Thomason’s</i></span><i> +Manufactory</i>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>CHURCH-STREET, +BIRMINGHAM.</b></p> +<p>Manufacturer of Articles in the highest classes of the Arts, +in Gold, Silver, Plated, Bronze, and Or-Molu. In this +Establishment is manufactured Gold and Silver Plate, including +Racing Cups, Dinner and Tea Services, of various Patterns: <span +class="smcap">Communion Plate</span> and <span +class="smcap">Presentation Plate</span>, made to descriptions +given, or if required, a variety of elegant Designs furnished for +approval: Silver-mounted Plated Wares of every denomination; +Plated Cutlery upon Steel: Cut Glass, Or-Molu, Candelabra and +Lamps: Manufacturer of Medals in great variety adapted for +Societies and Institutions. Amongst the numerous series of Dies +are the celebrated Dassier Dies of the Kings of England: The +Mudie Dies for the series of grand National Medals, commemorative +of the Victories of the late War: Forty-eight Dies for Medals of +the <span class="smcap">Elgin</span> Marbles. Also <span +class="smcap">Sir Edward Thomason’s</span> Splendid Series +of One Hundred and Twenty large Medal Dies Illustrative of the +<span class="smcap">Holy Scriptures</span>, and a series of +sixteen Medals upon Science and Philosophy, for Societies: Livery +Button Dies cut, and the Buttons made. Numerous Patent Mechanical +Inventions in the Metals, and Papier Machee: Brass and Bronze +Staircases: manufacturer of fine Gold Jewellery of the most +splendid descriptions: Dealer in Diamonds, Pearls, and fine Gems: +Diamond Suits made to order, and altered to the present Style, or +if required, purchased, and payment, full value, in cash: English +and Foreign Money exchanged; Old Gold and Silver Articles +reworked as new, or purchased. Manufacturer of Sportsmen’s +fine Fowling Pieces upon an improved principle. Duelling Pistols, +Rifles, Air Guns and Canes, and Guns of every variety for +Exportation.</p> +<p>These extensive Show Rooms and <span +class="smcap">Manufactory</span>, are situate in <span +class="smcap">Church-Street</span>, in the centre of the Town, +adjoining St. Philip’s Church Yard. The Ware Rooms contain +the Finished Articles for sale, and are open to all persons of +respectability.</p> +<p>The <span class="smcap">Fac-simile</span> of the celebrated +<span class="smcap">Warwick Vase</span>, of upwards of 21 feet in +circumference, was made in metallic Bronze at this Manufactory. +The Copper Bronze <span class="smcap">Statue of His Late +Majesty</span>, <span class="smcap">George the Fourth</span>, +upwards of 6 feet in height, was modelled, cast, and sculptured +at this Establishment: as also a <span +class="smcap">Shield</span> in honour of the <span +class="smcap">Duke of Wellington’s Victories</span>. These +and numerous other Works are stationed in separate Rooms to +exhibit the progress of British Art.</p> +<p>Servants are appointed to conduct Visiters over the different +Workshops, to whom and to the Work-people the Visiter is +requested to abstain from giving any gratuity.</p> +<p>N.B. Mr. George Richmond Collis is Vice Consul for France, +Russia, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey, with the privilege of +granting Passports to Persons visiting France and its +Dominions.</p> +<p>Strangers of Respectability are permitted to view the Show +Rooms and Manufactory.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_40"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +40</span>THOMAS & JAMES UPFILL,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">IRON AND STEEL MERCHANTS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">157, GREAT CHARLES-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BIRMINGHAM.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">WROUGHT AND CAST IRON</p> +<p style="text-align: center">GATES, PARK FENCING,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>HURDLES</i></b>,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">INVISIBLE WIRE FENCE, HAIR +FENCE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>RACKS, MANGERS, CHAINS,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">NAILS, BOOK CASES, TIN, IRON<br /> +ARMS, &c.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>THORNTON AND SON,<br /> +WHOLESALE IRONMONGERS,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURERS OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">WROUGHT IRON AND PRESSED RIVETED<br +/> +HINGES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>CUT NAILS,</b></p> +<p>Wood, Bed, and Machinery Screws, of every description; Iron +Rim and Mortice Locks, Sash Pulleys, Iron Bolts, Cast Butt +Hinges, Norfolk and Thumb Latches, &c. &c.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>BRADFORD-STREET</i>, +<i>BIRMINGHAM</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p>→ Redman’s Patent Rising Joint and Swing Hinges, +Trough and Centre Hinges of every kind.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_41"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 41</span>F. +KNIBB’S</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">COMMERCIAL</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>BOARDING ESTABLISHMENT,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">15, BOLD-STREET,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">(<b>Two Doors above the Palatine +Club House,</b>)</p> +<p style="text-align: center">LIVERPOOL.</p> +<p>The situation is central, and without exception the +pleasantest of any establishment of the kind in Liverpool. The +rooms are large and airy, and no attention will be spared to +render this establishment deserving the patronage of Commercial +Gentlemen and Families.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3>W. FLETCHER,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">MANUFACTURER +OF</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b><i>LAMPS</i></b><b>, +</b><b><i>CANDLESTICKS</i></b><b>,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>LUSTRES, INKSTANDS, +VASES,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>And all kinds of Ornaments in +Bronze and Or-molu,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">31,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">LOVEDAY-STREET, BIRMINGHAM.</span></p> +<p>Manufacturer of Japanned Wood and Papier Maché Cruet, +Liquor, and Pickle Frames; Papier Maché and Metallic +Miniature Frames, &c.</p> +<p><span class="smcap">Agent in London</span>—C. JEPSON, +29, Thavies Inn, Lower Holborn.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_42"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 42</span>NOW +READY, PART I.</h3> +<p style="text-align: center">(<i>To be completed in two +Parts</i>, <i>demy</i> 12<i>mo.</i>, <i>price</i> +17<i>s.</i>)</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="GutSmall">THE</span><br /> +LAW AND PRACTICE<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">RELATING TO</span><br /> +<b>LANDLORDS AND TENANTS:</b><br /> +<span class="GutSmall"><b>COMPRISING</b></span></p> +<p>The most approved modern Precedents, alphabetically arranged +under distinct and separate heads, with Notes, Illustrations, and +Cases; to which is prefixed a concise Treatise on the nature of +Estates in general, in accordance with the recent statutes +relating to real property. The whole adapted for the use of +attorneys and solicitors; also landlords, tenants, farmers, +stewards, agents, and others concerned in the management, sale, +or letting of estates. BY R. SHIPMAN, Esq., Editor of +“Jones’s Attorney’s Pocket Book,” and +Author of the “Attorney’s New Pocket Book, +Notary’s Manual, and Conveyancer’s +Assistant.”</p> +<p>London: S. <span class="smcap">Sweet</span>, 3, Chancery Lane; +and J. <span class="smcap">Drake</span>, 52, New-street, +Birmingham.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">Also Ready, royal 12mo, price +7s.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">A STEPPING STONE<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">TO THE</span><br /> +LAW OF REAL PROPERTY:<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">BEING AN</span><br /> +<b>Elementary Treatise on the Statute of Uses.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">By HENRY SMYTHIES.</p> +<p>London: S. <span class="smcap">Sweet</span>, 3, Chancery Lane; +and J. <span class="smcap">Drake</span>, 52, New-street, +Birmingham.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">SHORTLY WILL BE PUBLISHED, BY J. +DRAKE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>And sold by the Agents for this +Work</i>, <i>and all Booksellers</i>,<br /> +Dedicated by Permission to the Chairman and Directors of the +London and<br /> +Birmingham Railway,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>DRAKE’S ROAD BOOK,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">OF THE</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM +RAILWAY,</b></p> +<p>With <i>Views on the Line</i>, from Drawings by <span +class="smcap">Henry Harris</span>; and a new and beautifully +engraved coloured <span class="smcap">Map</span> of the entire +Route, extending many miles on each side of the line.</p> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> To be completed in about +five Parts, at 1<i>s.</i> per Part; a few copies on India Paper +at 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> per Part.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><a name="page1_43"></a><span +class="pagenum">p. 43</span>JUST PUBLISHED,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>DRAKE’S</b><br /> +<b>RAILROAD MAPS</b><br /> +OF THE ENTIRE LINE OF ROUTE<br /> +<span class="GutSmall">FROM</span><br /> +<b>LONDON TO LIVERPOOL AND</b><br /> +<b>MANCHESTER,</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center">BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED AND +COLOURED,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">AND +EXTENDING MANY MILES ON EACH SIDE OF THE LINE:</span></p> +<p>Ornamented with views of the Euston Grove Station, in London, +and a complete Train of Carriages. With the Rules, Regulations, +Fares, Times of Outset and Arrival of the Trains at the various +Stations; together with all requisite Information for +Travellers.</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Price</i>, <i>on Canvass</i>, +<i>in a Case for the Pocket</i>, 2<i>s.</i></p> +<p><sup>*</sup><sub>*</sub><sup>*</sup> The Maps of the London +and Birmingham and Grand Junction Railways sold separately, done +up in a similar manner, at 1<i>s.</i> 6<i>d.</i> each. On a +sheet, Coloured, 9<i>d.</i>—Plain, 6<i>d.</i> each.</p> +<blockquote><p>“<span class="smcap">Mr. Drake</span>, of +New-street, has just published in a neat pocket case, two +well-engraved and coloured Maps of the London and Birmingham and +Grand Junction Railways. Each Map describes not only the +course of the line and a section of its gradients, but the +geographical position of various places for many miles on either +side. There are also annexed complete tables of fares and +distances, the rules to be observed by travellers, the modes of +conveyance to and from the hotels and inns to the stations on the +line, with the regulations for luggage, merchandise, +&c. These maps and accompanying tables comprise much +information in a small compass, which the railway traveller will +have frequent opportunities, on his journey, of making a +practical use of, and turning to good +account.”—<i>Midland Counties’ Herald</i>.</p> +<p>“<span class="smcap">Mr. Drake</span> has just published +Maps of the Grand Junction and of the London and Birmingham +Railways, together with tables of distances, fares, and +regulations. The Maps are done up in a case for the pocket, and +will be found very portable as well as +instructive.”—<i>Birmingham Journal</i>.</p> +</blockquote> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<h3><a name="page1_44"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +44</span>PRINTING OFFICE,</h3> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">LAW +STATIONERY, ACCOUNT BOOK,</span><br /> +AND PAPER WAREHOUSE,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">52,<br /> +NEW-STREET, (OPPOSITE THE THEATRE,)<br /> +<b>BIRMINGHAM.</b></p> + +<div class="gapshortline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center">JAMES DRAKE,<br /> +<i>LAW BOOKSELLER</i>, <i>STATIONER</i>, <i>AND BINDER</i>,</p> +<p>Takes this opportunity of presenting his grateful +acknowledgments to the Profession for their liberal support of +his Establishment, and at the same time he begs to assure them, +that every article sold by him will be found of superior quality +and at reasonable prices, and will, he hopes, induce a +continuance of their esteemed favours.</p> +<p>J. D. takes this opportunity of calling the attention of the +Profession to his <span class="smcap">Law Stationery +Business</span>, established more than twenty years, and which is +conducted by himself and competent assistants.</p> +<h4>DEEDS AND WRITINGS</h4> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Neatly and carefully Engrossed +and Copied.</b></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">DRAFTS +DRAWN, AND TITLES CAREFULLY ABSTRACTED,</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="GutSmall">(FOR THE +PROFESSION ONLY).</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center"><b>Books Plainly and Elegantly +Bound by Experienced Workmen.</b><br /> +LAW BOOKS,</p> +<p style="text-align: center">All the New Works kept in stock, or +ordered on the shortest Notice,<br /> +on the same terms of <span class="GutSmall">DISCOUNT</span> as in +London.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">LAW REPORTS SUPPLIED.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">BANKRUPTCY & OTHER FORMS,<br /> +WRITS, NOTICES,</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">Forms</span> +under the new Act for the abolishing Imprisonment for<br /> +Debt; also for Justices of the Peace, Highway Act Forms,<br /> +Election Forms, &c., kept in Stock.</p> +<p style="text-align: center">*<sub>*</sub>* <i>Orders from the +Country executed with promptness</i>.</p> + +<div class="gapline"> </div> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">Birmingham</span>: Printed by James Drake, 52, +New-street.</p> +<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DRAKE'S ROAD BOOK OF THE GRAND +JUNCTION RAILWAY***</p> +<pre> + + +***** This file should be named 43367-h.htm or 43367-h.zip****** + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/4/3/3/6/43367 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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