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to Lady Hickman and family,
At a meeting of the Urban District Council of Bilston held on the twenty fourth day of November 1910 it was resolved unanimously that the Urban District Council of Bilston tendors to and begs lady Hickman and her family to accept the Council's sincere and grateful thanks expressed hereby under their Common Seal for her and their valuable and generous gift of land comprising about 12 acres known as 'Springfiled, Bilston' to be held as a public park and to be maintained by the Council for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of Bilston for ever as a memorial to the late Air Alfred Hickman, Bart.
The present members of the council are desirous of expressing their personal thanks for, and they have the honour of accepting on behalf of the people of Bilston this valuable gift which is and will be highly appreciated by resent and future inhabitants.
The Council propose to designate the gift as 'The Hickman Park'
signed by Walter S Bradley, chairman and John D Wassell, clerk. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | Nov 1910 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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