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Droitwich Lunatic Asylum was established in 1791. Records at the Worcestershire County Record Office show its presence in 1837 to 1838. An advert in the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association Transactions in 1844 records that Martin Ricketts, of Droitwich was the Surgeon and Charles Hastings from the Worcester Infirmary was the Physician.

Evesham Abbey According to an article on the village of Ombersley , published in May 2006 in The Birmingham Post, the first known reference to the village was the granting of a Charter to the village by Abbot Ecgwine, later Saint Ecgwine, of Evesham Abbey in 706 AD.

Worcester site Sir Charles Hastings, founder of the British Medical Association lived in Worcester for most of his life - the newly built Worcestershire Royal Hospital stands in a road named in his honour.

Birmingham and Midland Institute

Edmund Street is a street located in Birmingham, England. Edmund Street is one of a series of roads on the old Colmore Estate stretching from the city centre around St Paul's Cathedral to the northern end of Newhall Street. [1]

[edit] People

Philip Bisse was the Bishop of Saint David's the smallest city in the United Kingdom, from 1710 to 1712. In 1712 he became the Bishop of Hereford until 1721. His brother, the Rev Dr Thomas Bisse, was the Chancellor of Hereford Cathedral and in 1724 organised as "Music Meeting" which subsequently became the Three Choirs Festival.

In 1871 ??? Morris & Co. were responsible for the windows at All Saints church in the village of Wilden near to Stourport-on-Severn. The were designed by Edward Burne-Jones for his nephew's family, Alfred Baldwin.

All Saints site records "The original windows were replaced, between 1902 and 1914, with 14 designs by Sir Edward Burne-Jones" ???

Sir Henry Fowler, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Midland Railway and subsequently the London, Midland and Scottish Railway was born in Evesham, on July 29, 1870.

[edit] Significant works

He designed, amongst others:

(all the above are Grade II* listed buildings)
  • Union Club, (1869) 85-89 Colmore Row, Birmingham.[2] On the corner with Newhall Street, now called Bamford's Trust House. (Grade II)
  • Public Hall , High Street, Smethwick. (1866-7) Now the Public Library.[3]
  • Birmingham Town and District Bank, 63 Colmore Row, Birmingham. (1867-1869) Head Office became Barclays Bank, facade later remodelled by Peacock and Bewlay.[4]
  • Birmingham Banking Company, Bennetts Hill, Birmingham. Designed new entrance in 1868. Became Midland Bank.[5]
This Herefordshire location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Cradley is a small village in Herefordshire. The nearest towns are Ledbury and Bromyard in Herefordshire and Malvern, Worcestershire.

[edit] Churches

  • Kidderminster has two so-called "Commissioner Churches". The first was St George's church, on Radford Avenue. This was designed by Francis Goodwin and built in 1821-1824,[6] finally being consecrated in April 1824. It had the third largest grant by the Commission, of just over £17,000.00, of any church outside London.[7] The second church was St John's church, on the Bewdley Road. This church was built in 1843 and the architect was Gordon Alexander, although the grant in this case was just over £4,000.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, it was proposed for Kidderminster to be part of the West Midlands metropolitan county, but it was scrapped after the proposed county boundary was trimmed back to Stourbridge.

[edit] Works

[edit] Members of Parliament

Bewdley (UK Parliament constituency)

was elected as MP for Bewdley in Worcestershire in 1892, holding the seat until his death, on 13 February 1908. He was succeeded by his son, Stanley Baldwin, who later became Prime Minister.

[edit] List of works

From these sources:[6][12]:

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b *The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin.
  2. ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p35-6
  3. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p81
  4. ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p35
  5. ^ Birmingham, Douglas Hickman, 1970 Studio Vista. p25
  6. ^ a b The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p206
  7. ^ A History of Kidderminster, Nigel Gilbert, 2004 Phillimore. p89 and p102
  8. ^ The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1968 Penguin. p110
  9. ^ The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p106 ISBN 0140710256
  10. ^ The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p106 ISBN 0140710256
  11. ^ a b The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, Nikolaus Pevsner, 1963 p106 ISBN 0140710256
  12. ^ *Victorian Architecture in Britain - Blue Guide, Julian Orbach, 1987, ISBN 0-393-30070-6

[edit] External links

[Kidderminster Workhouse]

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Kidderminster/Kidderminster.shtml

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