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Description: | 1 Jan
Suggested extension of police to whole county considered
3 Jun
Letter of complaint re street watering
24 Jun
Gibbons, Thomas, John, Benjamin - final dividend to creditors of 1816 bankruptcy
19, 26 Aug, 2, 9 Sep
Description of the exhibition at the Mechanics Institute
19 Aug
Description of the Museum in the Mechanics Institute
Foundation stone laying for St James Church
2 Sep
Discussion of new Town Act (Police declared illegal by Fryer - Act only authorised payment of night watchmen Explanation by Sidney and others that the powers of the day police were granted by the magistrates but payment was made by the Commissioners as watchmen)
Account of reasons for and against New Town Act (comments on Fryer)
Gas Pillar, High Green doubt as to powers to remove it as it was subscribed for and stood in part of Market Place owned by Duke of Cleveland
23 Sep
G Wallis, School of design (advertisement)
28 Sep
Prizes awarded for the exhibition at the Mechanics Institute
7, 14 Oct
St Mary's Church foundation stone laying
14, 21, 27, 28 Oct
Complaint and letters re fire engines
4 Nov
Deanery Manor Officials: Constable Randle Shaw Walker, Deputy Constable John Checketts, Flesh Conners George Jenkins & Richard Boulton, Bellman Richard Jones and Pinner Joseph Lathem
"On Monday last the firemen belonging to the Birmingham Fire Office exercised their excellent engine (which that Co. has liberally given for the sole use of this town & neighbourhood) in the Market Place when the power & efficiency of the engine as well as the skill & discipline of the men, elicited the approbation of all who witnessed their performance"
18 Nov
Bell Ringing
2 Dec
Editorial re Grammar School reform
9 Dec
Editorial re Commissioners meeting re New Town Act
Meeting of trustees of Grammar School re reform
16 Dec
Editorial re New Town Act | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1840 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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